Overview of reporting

An efficient cluster maximizes the usage of resources while minimizing the average wait time of a workload. To ensure your cluster is running efficiently at all times, you can analyze the activity within your cluster to find areas for improvement.

The reporting feature collects data from the cluster and maintains this data in a relational database system. Cluster data is extracted from the database and displayed in reports either graphically or in tables. You can use these reports to analyze and improve the performance of your cluster, to perform capacity planning, and for troubleshooting.

The reporting feature depends on the Platform Enterprise Reporting Framework (PERF) architecture. This architecture defines the communication between your cluster, relational database, and data sources.

LSF collects various types of data, which can be reported using the standard, out-of-the box reports. In addition, LSF can be configured to collect customer-specific data, which can be reported using custom reports.