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Reports

Reports enable analysis of raw and ouput time series data in Falkonry Time Series Intelligence. Analyses may be saved for documentation and shared throughout your organization.

Organizing Reports

Reports are organized into Personal and Group Reports folders and you may create sub-folders to further organize and manage reports:

  1. Personal Reports: Initiate analysis about an event and assemble your report by summarizing the analysis and documenting observations in this folder. Reports and sub folders created in this section will be visible to the individual user only.
  2. Group Reports: Share reports with other team members and stakeholders by creating or moving reports to this folder. Reports in this section may be accessed, viewed and edited by all users in the account.

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Creating a Folder

  1. Click the New Button from the Report List Table.
  2. Select Folder.

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  1. Give the new Folder a name (required field).

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  1. Click the Create button.
  2. The new folder will be created. It will appear in the folder you are navigating in.

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Renaming a Folder

  1. Click on the folder in the Report Navigation Pane.
  2. Click the pencil icon next to the folder name.
  3. Update the folder name and click the green check icon.

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Report Kebab Menus

Contextual Kebab menus appear in the Report Navagation Pane which give you control of your reports and folders.

Folder Kebab Menu

The Folder Kebab Menu enables you to:

  1. Create a new report in the folder
  2. Create a new folder
  3. Delete a folder (Note: the Personal Reports, Group Reports, and Insights Reports folders cannot be deleted)
  4. Move a folder

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Report Kebab Menu

The Report Kebab Menu enables you to:

  1. Delete a report
  2. Duplicate a report
  3. Move a report to another folder
  4. Generate a PDF of the report

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Report List Table

When you navigate to a folder in the Reports Navigation pane, you will be taken to the Report List Table. Here, you will see a table with details about all the reports contained in this folder and its subfolders. Some columns in the table are sortable, searchable, and/or editable. See below for details.

  • Name: The report name. Sortable and searchable.
  • Description: A user generated description of the report. Sortable, searchable, and editable.
  • Created by: The name of the user who created this report. Sortable and searchable.
  • Location: The location of the report in the folder hierarchy.
  • Last edited by: The name of the user who most recently edited the report. Sortable and searchable.
  • Created date: The date the report was created. Sortable.
  • Last updated date: The date of the most recent edit to this report. Sortable.
  • Actions: The action menu enables you to Delete, Duplicate, Move a report to another folder, and Generate a PDF from the report.

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Customizing Reports

Reports enables you to quickly visualize your time series data, perform analyses, and build custom dashboards. A Report is organized by tabs, each tab may be customized with up to 4 report widgets.

Creating a new report

  1. Click the New Button on the Report List Table and select new report or,
  2. Select new report from a Report Navigation Pane Folder Kebab Menu.

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  1. Give the new report a name (required field).
  2. Optionally, you may give the report a description which will be displayed in the Report List Table.

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  1. Click the Create button.
  2. The new report will load and you may begin editing it immediately.

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Creating a new tab

To create a new blank tab in a report, click the + button in the tab bar. You may customize the name of the tab. Click save to create the tab.

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Adding report widgets

To add a widget to a report click the Add New Report Widget button in the middle of an empty tab, or in the upper right corner. This will open the Widget Menu.

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To place a widget on the tab, drag the desired widget from the Widget Menu to the main tab area. The space the new widget will occupy is highlighted with a blue box. This is based on your mouse position and the current arrangement of widgets on a tab. You may add up to 4 widgets to a single tab.

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When 4 widgets are on a tab, the option to add additional widgets will be disabled. You will need to delete one of the 4 existing widgets to be able to add a new widget.

Widget Layouts

You may place up to 4 widgets on a single tab. A widget may occupy:

  1. 100% of the tab for 1 widget.
  2. 50% of the tab for 2 widgets. The tab may be split vertically or horizontally.
  3. 25% of the tab for 3 or 4 widgets.

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Repositioning widgets

To reposition or resize a widget click and hold the Move Icon on the Widget Control Bar and drag the widget to the desired position on the tab. Other widgets on the tab will automatically move and resize to make space for the widget being repositioned. Note that the reposition icon will not appear when only one widget is on a tab.

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Deleting widgets

To delete a widget, open the kebab menu on the Widget Control Bar and select the Delete widget option. You will be prompted to confirm the deletion. If there are other widgets on the tab, they will automatically resize to fill the space created by deleting a widget.

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Insights Reports

When using Insights, you may create a report from the current Insights view by clicking the Explore button.

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The Insights Report will be saved in the Insights Reports Folder within the Group Reports Folder with the name \"[Tree Node Name] Insights report [report creation date]\". An Insights Report may managed and edited as any other report.

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An Insights Report will have two tabs upon creation:

  1. The Overview tab with reference information including the signal names in the report, the start and end time of the report, a link back to Insights, prompts to track the status of the report, and more.
  2. The Insights Report Timeline tab with the same reference and tree node signals as displayed in Insights when the Explore button was clicked.

The Insights Report Timeline tab will have two Timeline Widgets.

The first, labeled Reference Signals will contain the Reference Signals loaded on the Insights Node Dashboard.

The second, labeled Tree Signals will display the tree node signals from the Insights Dashboard with the Insights Assessment overlayed.

Both Timeline Widgets on the Insights Timeline Tab may be updated with new signals or time ranges. The position of each widget may be changed by clicking and dragging the Move Widget icon, and new widgets may be added to the tab by clicking the New Report Widget button. Additional tabs may be created to continue analysis.

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The Insights Report will be preconfigured with the time range matching the time period on display in Insights. This time range will be available in the Time Range Manager along with the typical default time ranges, All Time and Last 7 Days.

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Sharing Reports

Generating a PDF From a Report

In certain instances, being able to share a report as a file is very useful. TSI makes it quick and easy to generate a downloadable PDF file from a report.

How to Generate a PDF

There are two ways to generate a PDF file from a report.

From the Report Navigation Pane
  1. Open the Report Kebab Menu of the relevant report
  2. Select Generate PDF

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From the Report List Table
  1. Navigate to the Report List Table.
  2. Click the Action Kebab Menu in the Actions column of the report of interest .
  3. Select the Generate PDF option.

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PDF generation may take several minutes. Similar to other ongoing processes in the TSI, the PDF generation process may be monitored in the Activity Tracker.

How to download Report PDFs
  1. Navigate to the Activity Tracker.
  2. Click the relevant PDFGENERATOR task in the Activity Queue.
  3. Once the task is completed, Click the Download link in the Activity Information Pane.

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