Generating Reports And Key Metrics

• Generating Reports And Key Metrics Software
• Generating Reports And Key Metrics 2017
• Creating A Metrics Report

Periodical reports help keep a team informed on how their business critical services are doing. Developers, DevOps/SRE teams, and their managers can be productive with automated reports reliably delivering insights without requiring everyone to sign in the portal. Such reports can also help identify gradual increases in latencies, load or failure rates that may not trigger any alert rules.

Each enterprise has its unique reporting needs, such as:

• Specific percentile aggregations of metrics, or custom metrics in a report.
• Have different reports for daily, weekly, and monthly roll-ups of data for different audiences.
• Segmentation by custom attributes like region, or environment.
• Group some AI resources together in a single report, even if they may be in different subscriptions or resource groups etc.
• Separate reports containing sensitive metrics sent to selective audience.
• Reports to stakeholders who may not have access to the portal resources.

Note

The weekly Application Insights digest email did not allow any customization, and will be discontinued in favor of the custom options listed below. The last weekly digest email will be sent on June 11, 2018. Please configure one of the following options to get similar custom reports (use the query suggested below).

To automate custom report emails

Generating Reports And Key Metrics Software

You can programmatically query Application Insights data to generate custom reports on a schedule. The following options can help you get started quickly:

• Use the 'Application Insights scheduled digest' Azure function template in the Monitoring scenario. This function uses SendGrid to deliver the email.

Generating Reports And Key Metrics 2017

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Sample query for a weekly digest email

The following query shows joining across multiple datasets for a weekly digest email like report. Customize it as required and use it with any of the options listed above to automate a weekly report.

Application Insights scheduled digest report

1. From the Azure portal, select Create a Resource > Compute > Function App.

2. Enter appropriate info for your app and select Create. (Application Insights On is required only if you want to monitor your new Function App with Application Insights)

3. Once your new Function App has completed deployment, select Go to resource.

4. Select New function.

5. Select the Application Insights scheduled digest template.

   Note

   By default, function apps are created with runtime version 2.x. You must target Azure Functions runtime version1.x to use the Application Insights scheduled digest template.

6. Enter an appropriate recipient e-mail address for your report and select Create.

7. Select your Function App > Platform features > Application settings.

8. Create three new application settings with appropriate corresponding values AI_APP_ID, AI_APP_KEY, and SendGridAPI. Select Save.

   (The AI_ values can be found under API Access for the Application Insights Resource you want to report on. If you don't have an Application Insights API Key, there is the option to Create API Key.)

   • AI_APP_ID = Application ID Public private key generation algorithm.

   • AI_APP_KEY = API Key

   • SendGridAPI =SendGrid API Key

     Note

     If you don't have a SendGrid account you can create one. SendGrid's documentation for Azure Functions is here. If just want a minimal explanation of how to setup SendGrid and generate an API key one is provided at the end of this article.

9. Select Integrate and under Outputs click SendGrid ($return).

10. Under the SendGridAPI Key App Setting, select your newly created App Setting for SendGridAPI.

11. Run and test your Function App.

12. Check your e-mail to confirm that the message was sent/received successfully.

SendGrid with Azure

These steps only apply if you don't already have a SendGrid account configured.

1. From the Azure portal select Create a resource search for SendGrid Email Delivery > Click Create > and fill out the SendGrid specific create instructions.

2. Once created under SendGrid Accounts select Manage.

3. This will launch SendGrid's site. Select Settings > API Keys.

4. Create an API Key > choose Create & View (Please review SendGrid's documentation on restricted access to determine what level of permissions is appropriate for your API Key. Full Access is selected here for example purposes only.)

5. Copy the entire key, this value is what you need in your Function App settings as the value for SendGridAPI

Next steps

Creating A Metrics Report

• Learn more about creating Analytics queries.
• Learn more about programmatically querying Application Insights data
• Learn more about Logic Apps.
• Learn more about Microsoft Flow.

Scorecards are a simple, high-level way to both evaluate and communicate your team’s performance. An effective scorecard will include the objective or measurement you are scoring yourself against, and an easy “traffic light” system to indicate your current progress: red (at risk), yellow (caution), or green (good).

The most important thing about a scorecard is to be honest. Nobody performs perfectly at all times, so giving yourself a green smiley across every category at every reporting interval will likely cause more alarm and disbelief than praise. Plus, when something truly does go wrong, you are more likely to get support and understanding if you have been candidly assessing your performance and flagging the areas that are putting you at risk.

A basic scorecard for operational performance is a great way to quickly update stakeholders without burying them in unnecessary technical data. More advanced scorecards, like balanced scorecards, can measure IT’s contribution to larger business goals, and are effective at tracking the performance across entire organizations and companies.