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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By : Arun Kumar Asokan
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UiPath Administration and Support Guide

By: Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

UiPath administration, support, maintenance, monitoring, and deployment activities are mandatory and more challenging than developing bots. This is a major issue for many firms that are looking to scale their RPA programs. This book will help in training new UiPath users/resources involved in administration and support tasks to address existing skill gaps in RPA market. The book starts with an introduction to the UiPath Platform. You'll learn how to set up UiPath Platform administration, support, monitoring, reporting, deployment, and maintenance. After that, you’ll cover advanced topics, such as, using the orchestrator API for support operations, security, and risk management. In addition to this, best practices for each of the topics will be covered. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge you need to work on the support and monitoring of UiPath programs of any size.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Part 1: UiPath Platform and Support Setup
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Part 2: UiPath Administration, Support, DevOps, and Monitoring in Action
10
Part 3: UiPath Maintenance and Future Trends

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...