Walkthrough Goal
Learn what reports are available through IIS Reports.
Prerequisites
The walkthrough requires the following prerequisites:
Web Server Reports
This list of reports are for activities on the sites for example, number of requests going out with status codes, the users logged on the sites etc. The reports are generated from the log files of the site. You can find about the where the data is getting logged by going to
- Site: Go to inetmgr, go to particular website and then to logging and the path under directory is where data for the particular website is getting logged.
- Server: Server just aggregates the data for all websites.
At server level, it shows the aggregated data for all the sites where as at the site level, it shows the data for that particular website. All reports expose two filters 1) From Date 2) To Date. You can choose dates to look at the activities between the different dates. List of reports are
- Web Server\Status code: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and status code.
- Web Server\Hits Per Url: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and the Url.
- Web Server\Hits By Hour: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and the Hour.
- Web Server\User Agent: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and the User Agent.
- Web Server\File Extension: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and the file extension.
- Web Server\User: This report gives the comparison between number of hits and the User.
- Web Server\Time Taken: This report gives the comparison between Average time taken and the Url.
- Web Server\Win32 Errors: This report gives the comparison between Hits and the Win32 Errors.
- Web Server\Client Machine: This report gives the comparison between Hits and the Client Machine.
- Web Server\Http Method: This report gives the comparison between Hits and the Http Method.
Remote Management Reports
As the name indicates, this set of reports show the remote management activities happening at the server or at the site. These reports are available for Server administrator connections only.
- Remote Management\Status Code: This report gives the comparison between Hits and the Status Code.
- Remote Management\Hits by Url: This report gives the comparison between Hits and the Url.
- Remote Management\Hits Per User: The report gives the comparison between Hits and User.
- Remote Management\Time Per User: The report shows the time taken per user.
- Remote Management\Module Usage: The report gives the data of modules accessed, number of times it was accessed and the user.
- Remote Management\Sites Usage: The report gives the comparison between number of the hits and the site.
- Remote Management\Module method Calls: The report gives the data of number of hits, modules, and the method accessed in that module.
- Remote Management\Module Method performance: The report gives the data of Maximum, minimum and average time taken for a module and the method accessed.
Static Reports
This set of reports consists of the reports which do not have chart and only have the table representing the data. Two reports RunTimeSiteStatusReport and ApplicationPoolStatusReport have drop down controls to select the state of the site or application pool respectively.
- Runtime State\RunTimeSiteStatusReport: The report shows the run time state of the sites at the server level or the run time state of that site at the site level. The report has a filter State which has values “Started”, “Stopped”.
- Runtime State\ApplicationPoolStatusReport: The report shows the run time state of all application pool at the server level or the run time state of that application pool used by the site at the site level. The report has a filter State which has values “Started”, “Stopped”.
- Runtime State\Configuration Mime Types: The report reads the section “system.webServer/staticContent” and displays the content of it in the report.