PRTG Manual: Run Reports
This documentation refers to an administrator that accesses the PRTG web interface on a master node. Other user accounts, interfaces, or failover nodes might not have all of the options in the way described here. In a cluster, note that failover nodes are read-only by default.
On the Run Now tab, you can immediately run a report with the settings that you defined before.
When you set up or run a report, also keep in mind the remarks for reports.
Setting |
Description |
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Period |
Define the time span that the report covers:
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Date Range |
This setting is only visible if you select Select a predefined date range above. From the list, select a date range for which PRTG generates the report. The shown time spans depend on the available monitoring data and on the report period that you define in the report settings. It can be days, weeks, months, or years. |
Start Date |
This setting is only visible if you select Define a custom date range above. Set the start date of the time span for which PRTG generates the report. Use the date time picker to enter the date and time. Make sure that you define a valid period. |
End Date |
This setting is only visible if you select Define a custom date range above. Set the end date of the time span for which PRTG generates the report. Use the date time picker to enter the date and time. Make sure that you define a valid period. |
Quick Range |
This setting is only visible if you select Define a custom date range above. Use the buttons to quickly set the start and end dates for the report:
PRTG sets the date range to the last matching period. It starts at 00:00 and ends at 00:00 of the following day. |
This section is not visible for read-only users.
Setting |
Description |
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File Format and Delivery |
Define how you want to view the report:
PRTG only generates .csv and .xml data files for report templates that include data tables. To create .pdf files, make sure that the print spooler service runs on the PRTG core server system. Some special characters, for example, 4-byte unicode characters, might not be displayed correctly in PDF reports. As a workaround, we recommend that you generate an HTML report and save it as a .pdf file. If you generate reports with Internet Explorer 11, we recommend that you use one of the PDF options for optimal results. |
Target Email Address |
This setting is only visible if you select Create and store .pdf and data files and send them by email above. Enter one or more valid email addresses to which PRTG sends the report. Use commas to separate email addresses. PRTG sends an email to all recipients. All recipients appear in the To field of the email. You can change the configuration for outgoing emails in the Notification Delivery settings. |
File Compression |
This setting is only visible if you select Create and store .pdf and data files and send them by email above. Define if PRTG compresses the attached report files before it sends them:
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Click Run Report to start the report generation. Depending on the number of selected sensors, this might take a while. If it takes a long time to generate HTML reports, consider using one of the PDF options.
- Any sensor graph in your report only shows channels that you select via the Show in graphs option in the channel settings.
- Reports show statistics for the uptime (the Up and Down states in percent) and for requests (Good and Failed in percent). PRTG rounds values between 5% and 95%, as well as 100% and 0%, to whole numbers without decimal places. Other values are shown with 3 decimal places.
- Because PRTG rounds values, the statistics in the report section Sensor Status History can differ from the values in the report section Uptime Stats by a few seconds.
- PRTG limits data reporting to 5 requests per minute.
- Reports cannot show uptime or downtime data for the Sensor Factory sensor.
- Create reports that include an appropriate amount of data. Reports might not work as expected if PRTG has to process too many sensors with short scanning intervals. Adjust your report size and the time span that the report covers, if necessary.
On the Stored Reports tab, you can view all PDF reports and data files that you created and stored.
Click a name to open the report. PRTG stores reports until they are deleted according to the data purging settings of your PRTG configuration.
For all other tabs, see section Report Settings.
KNOWLEDGE BASE
Why is there missing data in historic data reports?
Creating a PDF report does not work. What can I do?