<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Reports

You can use reports to analyze historic monitoring results over a specified time such as one or more days, one month, or an entire year, and for your system configuration. You can create reports for all or only for certain sensors.

Introduction

PRTG includes a powerful reporting engine for ad-hoc, as well as scheduled report generation in HTML and PDF format. So you can run reports on demand or on a regular basis (for example, once a day). You can create reports for one single sensor, or you choose a range of sensors you want to create a report for. It is also possible to create HTML reports for your system configuration.

The content and layout of the report is controlled by the report template of your choice and is the same for all sensors in a report.

Report Sample

The sample report above shows a report data for devices on a local probe. You can see graphs for the preceding week, plus data tables with numeric results.

Start Reports

Click the Reports entry from the main menu to view or add reports of your monitoring data. Hover to show other menu items. Choose between:

Reports
All	Open the Reports overview page where you can view or add reports of your monitoring data.
Add Report	Open an assistant to directly add a new report.
Select Report ›	Open an existing report. Hover to show other menu items. Follow the menu path (it is specific to your setup) to select a report.
Configuration Reports ›	Create reports for maps, reports, user and user groups, and system configuration to document changes to the configuration. Hover to see the available configuration reports.

Reports Overview

List of Reports

In the All view, you see a list of all existing reports for monitoring data. Every line shows information about one report:

Object: Shows the name of the report.
Template: Shows the name of the template that this report uses.
Security Context: Shows the user account that PRTG uses to run the report.
Period: Shows the time span that the report covers.
Schedule: Shows if you set a schedule to regularly execute the report automatically.
Email: If you set a schedule and an email address in the report settings, this shows the email address to which PRTG sends the report automatically.
Status: Shows the current status of the report.
Next Run: If you set a schedule in the report settings, this shows when PRTG runs the report the next time.
Last Run: If you set a schedule in the report settings, this shows when PRTG ran the report the last time.
Number of Sensors in Last Run: Shows about how many sensors the report includes data.

Using the buttons at the end of a line, you can Edit, Clone, and Delete the respective report.

Please see also Working with Table Lists. Additionally, there is multi-edit available. This enables you to change properties of several objects at a time. For more details, please see Multi-Edit Lists section.

Click on the Add Report button to add a new report, or click on the name of an existing report to view and edit its settings. You can also run a pre-configured report easily by clicking on its name and then using the options in the Run Now tab. For both options, please see Reports Step By Step section.

Note: You can run configuration reports only via the main menu.

Working With Reports

For detailed information on how to create, edit, and schedule reports, please see the following sections:

Automatic Averaging

For performance reasons, PRTG automatically averages monitoring data when calculating data for large time spans. Data is then averaged regardless of the selected average interval.

Time Span in Report	Minimum Level of Detail (Average Interval)
Up to 40 days	Any
40 to 500 days	60 minutes/1 hour or larger

A report for a time span of more than 500 days is not possible. If you try to set a larger time span, it will be reduced to 365 days automatically.

Configuration Reports

Configuration reports are a special type of reports and show the current PRTG configuration. They are available for Maps, Reports, User & User Groups, and System Configuration. PRTG generates these reports in a new browser window as HTML page in the common reports style of PRTG (for example, like Historic Data Reports of sensors). You can use configuration reports, for example, to file and document changes to the configuration of PRTG.

The particular configuration reports contain the same information as you can see on the overview pages of Maps, Reports, as well as on the system administration tabs User Accounts and User Groups. The configuration report System Configuration includes the current system administration settings of the tabs User Interface, Monitoring, Notification Delivery, Core & Probes, and Cluster. Configuration reports are interactive so you can click on available links to go to the corresponding webpage in the PRTG web interface.