Usage reports

Directly monitor the usage statistics of a Operational Decision Manager on Cloud tenant.

Operational Decision Manager on Cloud includes the usage reports for monitoring all artifacts and billable artifacts separately in Decision Center, and decisions in your Rule Execution Servers. The display is accessible to cloud administrators, and displays usage data for a selected period of time.

The display is included in new and updated tenants. Clients continue to receive emailed usage reports, but this service might be discontinued because the same information can be found in the display (see Monthly reports).

Tip: You can also run diagnostics on Decision Center through the Business console (see Diagnostics).

Metrics

The usage reports display information about three types of metrics:

Decisions
This metric shows the number of calls to a decision service in Rule Execution Server during the selected time period. For example, if an application calls a decision service 10,000 times per hour in one day, the metric shows 240,000 calls for that day.
Artifacts

This metric shows the number of unique versioned artifacts in Decision Center. The artifacts are counted only once across all branches, releases and activities, in a given tenant. If you use duplicates of artifacts in different tenants, the artifacts are counted separately for each tenant. The metering service does not see the duplication.

Types of artifacts:

  • Business artifacts (BAL rules, decision tables, decision trees, technical rules, functions)
  • Decision operations
  • Deployment configurations
  • Ruleflows
  • Queries
  • Variable sets
  • Business object models (BOMs)
  • Vocabulary
  • Business-to-Exchange (B2X) artifacts
  • Resources
  • Simulation artifacts (metrics, key performance indicators, report formats, input data, and simulations)
  • Test suites
  • Business Action Language (BAL) templates
Billable artifacts
These artifacts are covered by your entitlement. They do not include items in the recycle bin if they are not referenced in a different branch or snapshot. They also do not include the decisions that are run in Decision Runner during tests and simulations.

Time window

You set the period of time that is monitored:

Image shows calendars.

You select the starting and ending dates for a monitoring period. The display collects the data for the metrics from Operational Decision Manager on Cloud. The time period cannot exceed 365 days.

Viewing the usage reports

You access the display through the Operational Decision Manager on Cloud homepage.

  1. As an administrator, open your Operational Decision Manager on Cloud tenant in the Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service clous portal. The homepage displays the Applications window with the different environments and their components.
  2. Click Navigation menu > Administer subscriptions to display the cloud administrative features.
  3. Click Usage reports. You are presented with an empty report page.
  4. Under Type, click Select report type to open its drop-down menu, and select Decisions:
    Image shows the type Decisions.
  5. Use the Start date and End date calendars to define a reporting period similar what is shown in the following image:
    Image shows calendars.
    Tip: You can select both dates in one calendar. For example, click the Start date calendar button "", and then click the start and end dates for the reporting period.
  6. Click Show to produce a report. The display shows the Overview tab, which displays the sum of all the decisions across the environments:
    Image shows the overview for decisions.

    The Total entry is used for entitlement purposes.

  7. Click the Environments tab to open it. It displays usage statistics for the environments:
    Image shows all the statistics for decisions.
  8. Deselect Runner to see only the decisions from the Rule Execution Servers in the environments:
    Image shows statistics for decisions in environments only.
  9. In Type, change Decisions to Billable Artifacts, and then click Show to see the overview for the billable artifacts:
    Image shows statistics for artifacts.

    The Maximum entry is used for entitlement purposes.

    Tip: To see an overview of all the artifacts, select Artifacts in the Type drop-down menu.
  10. To see the chart in full screen, click the Expand button "". The display enlarges the graph, and hides the display parameters and overall statistics.
  11. To download the report, click the Download button "". The download dialog of your browser opens. Use the dialog to download a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file of the report to your computer.
    Tip: A CSV file uses a simple format for storing tabular data. You can open it by using a program that stores data in tables.
  12. To refresh the data in the chart, click Update. The display adds any new data for the metrics and the chosen time period.
Attention: The display does not retain data when you navigate away from it in your web browser. You must reset its display parameters when you return to it.