Schedules

Sysdig Reporting is a highly scalable, powerful reporting platform. Use it to quickly create and schedule reports with large swathes of information. Reports are interactive, and can contain up to 30 days worth of data. You can export Reports in a variety of formats, secure data by filtering reports by Zone, and protect reports with a password.

The Schedules page lets you review, create, edit, enable and disable report schedules.

Access Schedules

To access Schedules:

Log in to Sysdig Secure.
Select Reporting > Schedules.

The Schedules page appears.

Review Schedules

On the Schedules page, you can see a list of schedules associated with your account.

You can find specific reports with the search bar and the drop-down list.

For each report schedule listed, you can see:

A toggle to enable or disable the schedule.
Name: The name of the schedule.
Reports included: Which report the schedule creates.
Frequency: How often the report is generated.
Last Completed: When this report schedule last created a report.

Click the three-dot icon beside any report schedule to View History for the report.

Select any schedule listing to edit the schedule. See Configure a Schedule.

Create a Schedule

To create a schedule:

Log in to Sysdig Secure.
Select Reporting > Schedules.

The Schedules page appears.

Select New Schedule from the top right corner.

The New Schedule page appears.

Fill out the configuration details. See Configure a Schedule.

Configure a Schedule

You can access the Schedule configuration page when you create a new schedule, or you edit an existing schedule. Here, you can configure the following:

Name: The name of the schedule.
Description: Enter any descriptive text for the schedule.
Enabled: Toggle this to enable or disable the schedule.
Report: From the drop-down, select the report you wish to schedule. Default reports include:
- Resource Posture Report (RPR): Provides a comprehensive report of your resource posture in a CSV file. Always available and does not require specific zones or policies.
- Policy Compliance Report (PCR): Reports on compliance with specific policies within a defined zone. Select this report from the dropdown to access the policy dropdown. You must select one policy and one zone for this report. The report is available as a PDF.
- The dropdown also displays custom reports. To create your own, see Create a Custom Report.
Scope: After selecting the report, the scopes are automatically populated with the scope of the report and cannot be changed directly. If you choose to change the scope, you can update the scope from the report, which will affect all associated schedules. Or create a new report without affecting any associated schedules.
Frequency: Select how often a schedule should run: daily, weekly or monthly.
- Daily: Select which time of day the report should run (for example, 12:00 AM, 1:30 PM).
- Weekly: Select which day of the week the report should run. The report will always run at 12:00 AM (midnight) on the day of the week you selected.
- Monthly: The report will always run at 12:00 AM (midnight) on the first day of the month.-
Data: Select whether the report uses your local timezone or UTC for the data it gathers. The time range of the data included depends on the frequency:
- Daily: The report includes data from the previous 24 hours leading up to the scheduled run time.
  - Example 1: A report scheduled for 12:00 AM (midnight) will generate data from the entire previous calendar day (12:00 AM to 11:59 PM).
  - Example 2: A report scheduled for 1:00 PM will generate data from the previous day at 1:00 PM until the current day at 12:59 PM.
- Weekly: The report includes data from the previous 7 days leading up to the 12:00 AM (midnight) run time.
  - Example: A report scheduled for Sunday (which runs at 12:00 AM Sunday) will include data from the previous Sunday at 12:00 AM until Saturday at 11:59 PM.
  - For Policy Compliance Reports, the report only includes live data at the time of the report being generated, not the full 7 days.
- Monthly: The report includes data from the entire previous calendar month.
  - Example: The report runs at 12:00 AM on March 1st and includes all data from February 1st at 12:00 AM until February 28th (or 29th) at 11:59 PM.
  - For Policy Compliance Reports, the report only includes live data at the time of the report being generated, not the full previous month.
Notifications: Optional: Select a notification channel if you wish to be notified when a report is created by a schedule, and ready to be downloaded. The available channels are Email and Slack. To create a notification channel, see Set Up Notification Channels.
Format: Select the format for you report. PDF is the default. JSON and CSV are only available when the report is a single table.
Compression Format: Select the format compression for your report. Gzip (.gz) and Zip (.zip) are supported.
Password Protection: Optionally, toggle this on to set a password on the report PDF that is created. Be sure to remember your password, as it cannot be reset once the report is created. This is supported for zip files, but is not supported for Gzip files.

Delete a Schedule

To delete a schedule:

Log in to Sysdig Secure.
Select Reporting > Schedules.

The Schedules page appears.

Select the three-dot icon of the schedule you wish to delete.
Select Delete.