Metrics and Reporting

Abstract

As your SharePoint environment matures and your use of it grows, the ability to understand how it is being used can give you valuable insight needed to enhance and extend the services being provided. In this chapter, the various types of metrics and reports in SharePoint are discussed. You can use them to understand resource usage and trends in your site collection. Within SharePoint are both broad, system-level metrics available only to SharePoint technical administrators and specific site and site-collection metrics that your site collection and content administrators can view. This discussion focuses on the metrics and reports available to site collection and content administrators.