Reporting overview

Subscribers to IBM Storage Insights Pro can easily create inventory reports, capacity and performance reports, and reports about storage consumption. IBM Storage Insights users can create predefined reports.

You use custom reports to create, schedule, and send reports by email about the capacity, performance, and configuration of your storage resources. And, you use chargeback and storage consumption reports to make the owners of resources aware of the amount and cost of the storage that their resources consume.

Your colleagues can't wait for the next run of a report?

Tip: Try it out! Click Reports. Right-click one or more reports and click Run Now from the Actions menu.

Predefined capacity and inventory reports

From a single page, you can generate predefined reports about the capacity usage and the configuration and properties of your assets. Just pick the type of report you want to create, such as a capacity report about your block storage systems or pools or hosts or virtual machines or an inventory report for your block storage systems or hosts or virtual machines, specify the scope of the report, choose the information that you want to include, and schedule the report. To refine the information in the report and make sure that the recipients of your report get the information they need, you can add up to four filters.

Now, you can easily generate predefined capacity reports about the resources that you are interested in, such as managed disks by storage systems, volumes by hosts, and much more.

Tip: Try it out! Click Reports. Click Create Report. Pick the Volumes capacity report. Name the report, choose capacity information about one or more resources, and make a selection.

You can now send predefined reports as CSV and HTML attachments. Your colleagues want to add information or modify the report? Just attach the report as a CSV file so that they can download and open the report in a spreadsheet!

Create reports in the free version of IBM Storage Insights: In the free version of IBM Storage Insights, you can create these predefined reports and share the reports with your colleagues and management:

Capacity reports for block storage systems and pools.
Inventory reports for block storage systems.

Try it out! From the menu, click Reports, and then click Create Report.

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Custom reports

From the table view for any storage resource, create, customize, and schedule reports that include performance or asset, capacity, configuration, and health status information. To create performance reports, just click View Performance and create a performance report for the resource.

You can schedule custom reports to keep a close watch on critical resources, or you can send them immediately to alert your colleagues about performance anomalies or capacity issues.

You can add up to four filters to custom capacity and inventory reports. For example, if you want to notify resource administrators or owners about capacity shortfalls, you can set threshold values for capacity information. Or if you want to exclude information that is not of interest to the report's recipients, you can add a filter. The report preview is refreshed when you apply filters so that you can make sure that the recipients of the report will get the information that they need.

You can now send custom reports as CSV and HTML attachments. Your colleagues want to add information or modify the report? Just attach the report as a CSV file so that they can download and open the report in a spreadsheet! Learn more

Chargeback and storage consumption reports

You manage or own applications, departments, or physical servers, and you want to know how much storage is being consumed and how much it costs to maintain the storage that is consumed. And, you want that information in your inbox now, every week or month so that you can keep a close eye on storage costs and capacity consumption.

You create chargeback reports to share information about the storage cost and consumption of all of your applications, or departments, or physical servers. Learn more.

You create storage consumption reports to share information about the storage cost and consumption of a single application, or department, or physical server. Learn more.