Display Name
Defines the name of the report as it will appear in the Reporting selection box.
Regex Filter for Index selection
Defines the regular expression which is applied to find the elasticsearch index that is used as the base to the report. If you search for the elasticsearch indexes, that are generated by the audit driver or the snapshot service by default, you will find the following indexes using the browser based URL interface of elasticsearch:
In row index you see the two base indexes to use for reports:
- "audit-default-yyyy.mm.ss" created dialy by the audit driver
- "report-default-yyyy.mm.ss" created by the snapshot service each time it runs
"^audit" means select all indexes that do start with "audit". So in this example all available audit indexes will be used for the report.
Index Rename Javascript
This field represents a java script function, how the index name will be presented in the index selection list, when creating the report. The function sais take the name of the index starting with the 7th character and replae all "-" with a blank " ". So the real name of the index "audit-default-2022.05.10" will appear as "default-2022.05.10" in the selection list.
Sort Fieldname
Defines the attribute that is used to sort the report. The field does not to be set as a field on the report!
Sort Direction
Defines the sorting order ascending (asc) or descending (desc) for the sort fieldname defined above.