Custom reports - general info

I used this article to learn about custom reports. It's an excellent source of information and is the key to getting started.

Performance

Information here is summarised from this article and is really just a memory jogger.

There are 3 main views to get perf data from:

• vPerfDaily
• vPerfHourly
• vPerfRaw

You typically use vPerfDaily and vPerfHourly as they contain (not only) these columns:

• SampleCount
• AverageValue
• MinValue
• MaxValue
• StandardDeviation

vPerfRaw (not only) contains:

• SampleValue

The main thing to note here is that hourly/daily datasets contain more info - but it's less granular due to aggregation? - while the raw dataset contains the value the rule collected each time it ran. vPerfRaw data is also kept for a shorter time - I don't know how long.