Creating reports from the monitoring database

The collected monitoring data can be very useful, but you probably want to use it in a more flexible way than just staring at the custom report included in the GeoServer interface.

Reports can be designed to show usage stats or check the safety state of your server. You can group them in several ways, as with any other source of alphanumerical data. There are several different tools you can use for this, most of them coming from the business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics branches of Information Technology.

In this recipe, we want to focus again on the spatial component of the data. You may wonder what the most queried area of your datasets is, for example, and want analyze whether there ...

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