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.
Use the reports tabs to access all functionalities and settings of a report.
Report Tabs
Click Go to all reports at the bottom of the page to open the overview list of all reports.
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.
Run Report on Demand
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. You can use several buttons to quickly set the start and end dates for the report. Choose between
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Setting |
Description |
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File Format and Delivery |
Define how you want to view the report:
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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.
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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 enable 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?
