Monitoring and reporting options and best practices for the UiPath program
As previously discussed in this chapter, there are many options for supporting the monitoring and reporting of the three layers of the monitoring framework.
Popular monitoring and reporting tool options
We discussed using UiPath Insights for Level 1 and 2 monitoring and reporting needs, but there are a few other popular options:
- Elasticsearch and a Kibana dashboard: Elasticsearch is a distributed open search and analytics engine that can ingest UiPath logs and enable quicker search capabilities. Kibana is a data visualization tool that works with Elasticsearch and can be used to create the dashboards used for UiPath monitoring.
- A reporting database and Tableau: The custom log from the Robot executions is written to a reporting database. Tableau is used to create dashboards and reports by connecting to this custom UiPath logs database. This option is popular when limited monitoring needs...