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Search query report is empty

Problem description

The search analytics report is missing data for a period or is empty.

Solutions

Empty search query reports could be caused by a number of things:

  • Ensure that you don’t have an ad-blocker enabled in your web browser as this can block your analytics reports. If you have an ad-blocker, either disable it or add an exclusion for your Funnelback admin server.

  • Ensure that analytics is scheduled to update. Check your results page to ensure it has a scheduled analytics update configured.

  • Ensure that you are viewing the search query report for the results page that receives the search queries (check the URL that is accessed when you run a query and look at the collection and profile parameters - this will indicate where the analytics are logged). The profile parameter indicates which results page holds the analytics. The collection parameter indicates which search package the results page resides within.

  • Ensure that queries are not being logged to a preview version of the results page - only live results page analytics are displayed in the insights dashboard. Check the profile parameter in the search URL and ensure it doesn’t end in _preview.

  • Check the update_reports.log of the search package that is logging the queries for any errors. Errors that may cause the analytics update to fail include:

    • Running out of memory (this can be increased using analytics.max_heap_size search package configuration option).

    • Corrupted log file lines (this may require some manual cleaning of log files).

  • Try manually updating analytics for the collection then check the update_reports.log.

  • The reporting blacklist and reporting stop words lists are used to exclude items from the analytics reports - check these to ensure that items are not being inadvertently excluded.

  • Check that scheduled analytics updates are not disabled for the search packagge. Check the search package configuration and ensure that the following line is not present (and set to false).

    analytics.scheduled_database_update=false

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