Usage Statistics of VA Reports

[AndiWindisch]

Hey Folks,

since last November we are working with Visual Analytics, since 7th May we have the newest Release 6.4.

We have created a bunch of reports, as it should be, everything is fine. In the last weeks we have developed a few jobs in Data Integration Studio to load the data marts automatically to VA.

Now my boss is asking if there a way to find something about the usage of the reports?

We have very similar questions around our WIKI, there is a Plugin for this purpose.

I've taken some deeper looks to the log files (standard configuration, nothing changed since installation), but there is nothing to find what helps.

Is there a easy way to get Usage statistics, to figure out how our internal customers (Accounting, Marketing department) use Visual Analytics?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards,

Andreas

[jakarman]

What about Apm 9.4 and event manager?

[MichelleHomes]

Hi Andreas,

You may want to look at the Audit Performance Management 9.4 package and SAS Environment Manager. At SAS Global Forum 2014, Dan Lucas and Brandon Kirk wrote a great paper about reporting on a SAS VA environment touching on these areas... http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/SAS167-2014.pdf

Kind Regards,

Michelle

[AndiWindisch]

Hi Michelle,

thanks a lot for your post, the paper is really very interesting, because it is "hands-on" with much suggestions for the implementation.

I think we will try this way to get mor information about the usage!

Best regards,
Andreas

[Allan_dk]

If you set the logging threshold to INFO the log will contain information that you then can analyze.

You can get information about reportId, user, time, action.

[AndiWindisch]

Good Morning Allan_dk,

that sounds quiet interesting, with the logging threshold. I guess it must be the Threshold of the Metadata Server, or is it another one?

Best regards,
Andreas