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Google Search Appliance: Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance

Essentials

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Using Search Appliance Reports

Reports are available from the Admin Console. The following table lists and describes each report and
gives the Admin Console page where you can find the report.

Report

Description

Admin Console page

Crawl status

Crawl status shows documents served, crawling rate
and errors.

Content Sources >
Diagnostics > Crawl
Status

Crawl
diagnostics

Crawl diagnostics provide interactive navigation
through directories to see the status of each page. It
also provides a “list format,” which displays each of the
crawled URLs and status.

Index > Diagnostics >
Index Diagnostics

Real-time
diagnostics

Real-time diagnostics provide real-time information for
the search appliance, including HTTP headers for a
specific URL and traffic on the network layer.

Content Sources >
Diagnostics > Real-time
Diagnostics, Search >
Diagnostics > Real-time
Diagnostics

Crawl queue
snapshot

A crawl queue snapshot shows the set of URLs that are
overdue to be crawled and the URLs that the appliance
is waiting to crawl. Multiple snapshots can be defined,
each with their own criteria, such as number of URLs to
include, forthcoming hours to include, and include URLs
from a specific host.

Content Sources >
Diagnostics > Crawl
Queue

Content
statistics

Content statistics provide summary information about
crawled files such as Mime Types, Number of Files,
Average Size, Total Size, Minimum Size, and Maximum
Size.

Index > Diagnostics >
Content Statistics

Serving status

Serving status shows recent queries per second by
collection.

Search > Diagnostics >
Search Status

System status

The System Status page monitors the available disk
space, the temperature of the components, and the
status of the computers that make up the search
appliance.

Administration >
System Status

Serving logs

Serving logs contain detailed information about how
the search appliance serves results for every query.

Reports > Search Logs

Search reports

A search report is a summary of information about user
search queries for a specified timeframe.

Reports > Search
Reports

Search logs

Search log reports provide a monthly, weekly or daily
snapshot of search activity, segmented by collection.
For each time period, the report shows the top 100
queries, top no match searches, traffic by day and hour,
an so on.

Reports > Search Logs

Event log

The event log is an audit trail of all system activity,
including user logins and logouts, crawling and indexing
activity per collection and other statistics.

Administration > Event
Log