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Custom Reports

Custom Reports empower users to effortlessly generate personalized reports through a dedicated dashboard. Within this report-building interface, a diverse array of widgets, encompassing counts, trends, lists, and tables, can be seamlessly incorporated. The data feeding each widget is sourced from the system, spanning findings, assets, alerts, and other relevant source.

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Key Features

1. Report Creation:
  • Easily build multiple reports using our user-friendly custom report builder dashboard.
2. Report Management:
  • Have full control — update, edit, or delete reports as needed.
3. Report Scheduling:
  • Set up a schedule for your custom report to be delivered to your email as per your preferences.
4. PDF Download:
  • Effortlessly download your report as a PDF for easy sharing and storage.
4. Widget Creation:
  • Create custom widgets for your report using data sources like findings, assets, alerts, and more.
  • Personalize data visualization and formatting for each widget.
  • Choose from various widget types like metrics, charts, tables, text, lists, trends, risk scores, and more.
  • Explore predefined templates like the ‘Executive Report.’
5. Widget Management:
  • Keep control over your widgets—update, edit, or delete them as needed.
6. Dashboard/Report Customization:
  • Move and arrange widgets as you like for a flexible and organized report design.
This means you can effortlessly design, manage, and schedule your reports and widgets according to your preferences. Your data, your way.

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Widget Types, Data Source, and Filters

Explore the details of supported widget types and data sources below. See how these choices come together to shape your reports, creating dynamic filters that make your data come alive.

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Widget Types

Widget types define how your data is visualized. Currently supported widget types include:
  • Metric Count: Shows the total count of selected metrics.
  • Metric Trend: Displays a trend for the chosen data points.
  • List: Presents data in a list format.
  • Text: Allows the inclusion of textual information in your report.
  • Table: Organizes data in a tabular format.
  • Chart: Represents data through various chart types. Currently we support only bar chart.
  • Top Risks: Highlights the most critical risks.
  • Risk Score: Visualizes the risk score associated with your data.
  • Summary: Provides a summarized view of selected data.
  • Unit Consumptions: Illustrates the consumption of units over time.
Choose a widget type based on how you want to visualize your data. For example, selecting ‘Metric Count’ and filtering by ‘Status: FAILED’ will display the total number of failed findings. Similarly, choosing ‘Metric Trend’ will show a trend/line chart for the corresponding data points.

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Data Sources

Data sources are the information stored in our system, such as findings, alerts, and assets-related data. The available data sources are:
  • Assets
  • Alerts
  • Findings
  • Compliance
  • Risk Score
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Tenant Usage
The widget type you select determines which data source options are applicable. For example, if you choose ‘Table’ as the widget type, the available data source will be ‘Findings’ since tabular visualization is currently supported for findings data only. Explore the relevant data sources based on your chosen widget type to tailor your reports accordingly.

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Filters

Plerion platform supports different filter groups, tailored to your selected widget type and data source. For example, if you choose ‘Metric Trend’ as the widget type and ‘Assets’ as the data source, you’ll see filters relevant to this combination. To see these filters in action, refer to the getting started with custom report.