Check scheduler activity

The CMC Scheduler Activity dashboard provides information to Splunk Cloud Platform administrators about how search jobs, also known as reports, are scheduled. Use this dashboard to understand the performance of your scheduled activity and determine if it needs any optimization.

See also Configure the priority of scheduled reports in the Splunk Cloud Platform Reporting Manual.

Review the Scheduler Activity dashboard

This dashboard contains a number of panels about your scheduler activity.

You can filter the results by specifying a time range and opting to include or exclude acceleration searches.

To investigate your panels, go to Cloud Monitoring Console > Search > Scheduler Activity. Use the following table to understand the dashboard interface.

View or Filter Description
Time Range Set the time range for the data display.
Include Acceleration Searches Acceleration searches are summaries of large datasets, used to help efficiently report on large volumes of data.

Select Yes to include summary-based acceleration searches in the displayed results. Select No to include only searches run on the complete dataset in the results.

Panels
  • Skip Ratio (Last Hour) shows the ratio of schedulers that skipped in the last hour.  
  • Average Execution Latency (Last Hour) shows the latency in seconds.
    Note: The smaller number and the arrow indicate if this is an increase or decrease from the previous reading.
  • Scheduler Executions Detail table with a Group by filter. The Total value is affected by the specified Time Range and Include Accelerated Searches filter values.
  • Scheduler Executions bar graph with a Group by drop-down list.
  • Scheduled Report Completions bar graph with a Runtime Aggregation filter.
  • <variable> Concurrency of Scheduled Searches bar graph with Aggregation, Search Mode, and Group by filters. The specified Aggregation value determines the variable. If you select maximum aggregation and historical search mode, The results show the maximum concurrency of completed scheduled searches. The results do not include searches that are currently running or searches that haven't completed within the displayed 5 minute intervals.
  • Scheduler Errors and Warnings table. The Total value is affected by the specified Time Range and Include Accelerated Searches filter values.
  • Execution Latency bar graph with Group by and Aggregation filters.

Interpret scheduler activity results

When interpreting your scheduler activity results, note the following:

  • Be sure to include and exclude acceleration searches and see how that affects your results.
  • Check for any significant spikes or dips in scheduler status, activity, and performance, particularly as compared against historical data. Large spikes and dips generally indicate an issue that you must resolve as soon as possible.
  • Choose various time range values when reviewing the Scheduler Errors and Warnings panel. Doing this ensures that you see the errors and warnings reported for that specific time range.