Configuring search analytics
Excluding items from analytics reports
Excluding queries containing or matching specific terms
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Queries that exactly match specific terms can be removed from the analytics reports by adding the term to the reporting blacklist.
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Queries containing specific terms can be removed from the analytics reports by adding the term to the reporting stop words list.
Excluding queries from specific IP addresses
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Queries that exactly match specific IP addresses can be removed from the analytics reports by adding the term to the reporting blacklist.
Configuring search analytics alerts
The analytics system can be configured to send out analytics notifications via email, which provide regular analytics summaries or trend alert notifications.
Search analytics update options
Funnelback provides a number of configuration options that affect how analytics is built.
Report update options
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Configure the maximum memory (Java heap size) allocated for analytics updates. |
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Control whether reports for the collection are updated on a scheduled basis. |
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Controls how logging of IP addresses is performed. |
Query report options
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Length of time range (in days) the analytics data miner will go back from the current date when mining query and click log records. |
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Advanced setting: controls the amount of data that is stored by query reports. |
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Advanced setting: controls the rate at which the query reports system checkpoints data to disk. |
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Disable incremental reports database updates. If set all existing query and click logs will be processed for each reports update. |
Trend alerts options
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Trend alerts: Control the minimum number of occurrences of a query required before a day pattern can be detected. |
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Trend alerts: Control the day pattern detection threshold. |
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Trend alerts: Disable query spike detection for a collection |
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Trend alerts: Disable query spike detection for a profile |
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Trend alerts: Control the minimum number of occurrences of a query required before a hour pattern can be detected. |
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Trend alerts: Control the hour pattern detection threshold. |