Overview of the Process Analytics Page
The Process Analytics page (Monitoring > Business > Process Analytics) helps Optimize for Process users to analyze business process activity over the current or previous day using a variety of techniques. This page provides at a glance metrics on process and step volume, cycle time, and rule violations. In addition it enables you to view details about the specific process instances or rule violations related to the general metrics information. This page also displays a process model diagram for the selected process model, and enables you to drill down to view metrics for individual steps within the model. Using the panels on this page, you can quickly assess the state of relevant processes and drill down to explore and develop solutions for relevant problems.
Initially, two panels are displayed on the Process Analytics page. The upper panel is the Process Metrics panel, and it displays process metric readings under the following headings: Volume, Cycle Time, Rule Violations. These readings represent critical metrics for the system during the applicable time period. The lower panel is the Process Diagram panel, and it displays a diagram of the currently selected process model. This diagram shows each step of the process models as well as the transition lines between each step. You can click on a step to view metric details for that step. The default view shows the standard process model, but the panel contains radio buttons that enable you to change the view to show critical path for the process diagram and animated swarm lines that represent path volume flowing through the diagram.
A third panel, the Metrics Detail panel, shows process instance or rule violation information when you click a selection from a Volume, Cycle Time, or Rule Violations metrics pop up. This panel can also display step error information if you click a step in the process model diagram.
All information on the Process Analytics page applies for the currently selected process model over the relevant time period, as configured in the browser's time zone. The currently selected process is displayed in the Select a Process field. If you select a different process model, the Process Analytics page displays the selected model for the duration of you current My webMethods session.
You can customize the time period that is applied to the currently selected process model on the
Process Analytics page by using the
Date Range drop-down list and the
icon. Either select a time range from the predefined time ranges in the
Date Range drop-down list, or specify values in the Start Date, End Date, and Time fields to define your own time range. When you specify a start and end date, and time, the
Date Range drop-down list changes to Custom.
To refresh the page with the latest data from the Analytic Engine, click the Refresh button. You can also set an automatic refresh to the Process Analytics page by selecting one of the values from the Refresh Rate drop-down list. When you set an automatic refresh, the page refreshes periodically with the selected rate. If you click Refresh while the Refresh Rate is set to a value, different from None, this will refresh the contents of the Process Analytics page and reset the automatic refresh timer. The automatic refresh timer will also reset if you change the selected process model or date range.