Monitors

A monitor is a powerful tool designed to continuously track and evaluate the health and performance of your Business Intelligence (BI) assets. It uses a customizable SQL query to automatically scan your environment for assets that do not meet predefined standards or expectations, such as outdated datasets, underused reports, or security issues. Because monitors are highly customizable, you can edit the SQL query, assign statuses, and determine the team responsible for resolving triggered alerts. This makes them a highly efficient and scalable way to manage large sets of assets and ensure any issues are detected and handled effectively.

Monitor Types

Our monitoring solution includes a set of default monitors to help you oversee your BI environment effectively. Should your organization require additional monitoring capabilities beyond these defaults, Datalogz can create custom monitors tailored to your specific needs. Additionally, you have the option to clone and modify existing monitors to better suit your individual requirements. These personalized monitors can be easily managed in the "My Monitors" section under the Monitor tab.

Default Monitors

Default Monitors are pre-configured monitors designed to cover common and critical scenarios for BI cost, security, performance, and governance. They come with predefined thresholds and logic, ready to use out-of-the-box. They are useful to provide a baseline level of monitoring for all users, ensuring fundamental issues are detected automatically.

Custom Monitors

Custom Monitors are highly specific monitor configurations created by Datalogz based on your organization’s unique requirements, business processes, or data sensitivities. These monitors are tailored for a very specific use case within your environment and are not designed to be broadly shipped to other customers. Datalogz can create these monitors on your request and ship them as default monitors.

To extend monitoring capabilities beyond the defaults, addressing unique operational concerns, compliance requirements, or performance benchmarks specific to your BI usage, contact Datalogz.

My Monitors

My Monitors are cloned versions of existing monitors that you can adapt for your individual tracking purposes. This allows individual users the flexibility to monitor specific aspects of their BI environment or assets in a way that is most relevant to their personal responsibilities or interests, without affecting the original monitor's configuration for other users.

Monitor Alert Types

When you receive alerts from our monitoring system, it's helpful to understand the two main types: event-based and asset-based alerts. This distinction helps clarify how alerts are triggered and how they might impact the total volume of notifications you receive.

Event-Based Alerts

Event-based alerts are triggered when a specific action or event occurs. These alerts provide notification for individual incidents as they happen. For example, if a user performs 5 or more export operations within a single hour, an alert is generated to flag that specific event.

Asset-Based Alerts

Asset-based alerts are alerts that are triggered by changes in the state or status of a particular asset over a period. The focus is on the overall health or status of an asset over time. For example, when an asset is identified as having no recorded activity for a specified duration, an alert is created to reflect its "unused" status.