Do you know if all nodes are contributing equally to system throughput—24/7? Are the systems healthy and optimized? When a server becomes unstable or crashes, which reports were running, and who was running them? Do those reports run successfully on other nodes or at different times? How can you detect and prevent abnormal usage or user errors that exhaust system resources? And are you prepared to monitor overall system health more closely in the coming days or weeks? These are common questions during system incidents and root cause analysis. To address them, we’ve developed Cognos Analytics system health reports that provide deep operational insights. In this session, we’ll walk through the design rationale and thought process behind these reports, demonstrate how to uncover hidden patterns and pinpoint issues, and show how they serve as a bridge to third-party observability tools like IBM Instana. With one click, you can jump from Cognos context to code stack traces or infrastructure metrics. The extracted context helps you stay focused—without getting overwhelmed by massive logs or fragmented data.

Session Topic: Business Analytics
Industry: Cross Industry
Speaker(s): Greg McDonald, Jijiang (George) Xu