From Manual to Automated Reports: A Skedler Success Story
In today’s fast-paced business world, efficient reporting is crucial for staying competitive. Many DevOps teams, engineers, and data analysts use tools like Grafana and Kibana to visualize data, but still rely on manual processes to create and distribute reports. This approach is slow, prone to errors, and takes valuable time away from more important tasks.
Manual reporting means engineers spend hours compiling and formatting reports, time that could be better used for improving system performance or driving innovation. Skedler changes that by automating the entire reporting process for Grafana, Kibana, and Elasticsearch.
Why Manual Reporting is Holding Your Team Back
The manual creation of reports, particularly for complex platforms like Grafana and Kibana, can result in several problems:
- Time-Consuming: Manual report generation can take hours, often requiring repetitive tasks such as exporting data, formatting charts, and emailing reports. For many organizations, this process can consume up to 10 hours per week.
- Prone to Human Error: The more manual the process, the higher the likelihood of errors creeping in. Mistakes in data or formatting can undermine the accuracy and credibility of reports.
- Delayed Decision-Making: Manual processes can slow down the delivery of insights, which, in fast-paced environments, can delay critical business decisions.
- Lack of Scalability: As data grows, manual reporting becomes increasingly unsustainable. The larger the datasets, the harder it is to manage reports manually without introducing inefficiencies.
Automated Reporting: The Game-Changer Your Business Needs
Automating the reporting process has become a necessity for modern organizations. With automation, businesses can streamline workflows, improve accuracy, and free up valuable time. Skedler is designed to address these challenges, enabling organizations to seamlessly transition to automated reporting. The benefits of automation are numerous:
- Increased Efficiency: Automated reports eliminate the need for manual intervention. Skedler users save significant time—up to 10 hours per week—by automating the entire process.
- Improved Accuracy: Automation removes the risk of human error, ensuring that every report is generated with the right data and is formatted correctly.
- Scalability: Skedler’s automation capabilities allow businesses to handle large datasets and generate reports at scale, ensuring consistent performance as the organization grows.
- Customizable and Branded Reports: With Skedler, users can create highly customized and branded reports that are tailored to specific business needs.
Real Stories, Real Success: Skedler in Action
Skedler’s powerful automation features make it the ideal solution for companies using Grafana and Kibana. Here are three real-world examples of how Skedler has transformed reporting for businesses in different industries.
1. ONYPHE: Enhancing Cybersecurity Reporting
ONYPHE, a leader in cybersecurity solutions, needed a way to generate customizable reports from JSON data stored in their Kibana dashboards. Their challenge was producing professional, tailored reports while ensuring seamless integration with their Elastic Stack infrastructure.
Before adopting Skedler, ONYPHE didn’t offer report generation capabilities, limiting their ability to provide detailed insights to clients. After integrating Skedler, ONYPHE was able to automate the report generation process, offering customizable, parameterized reports tailored to client-specific needs.
By automating reports, ONYPHE not only saved time but also improved customer satisfaction by providing clear, actionable insights into vulnerability exposure. As Patrice Auffret, CTO of ONYPHE, explains, “Skedler has been a tremendous help, enabling us to quickly create reports tailored to different customer needs with minimal effort.”
2. Enghouse Systems: Automating Telecom Network Test Reports
Enghouse Systems, a leading provider of telecom network testing solutions, needed an affordable solution to automate the distribution of test reports generated from their Elasticsearch-Kibana-Grafana data lake. With over 3,000 field technicians and managers relying on these reports, manual processes were no longer feasible.
Skedler enabled Enghouse to automate both daily and weekly reports, providing real-time summaries to field technicians and hotspot reports to managers. This automation helped Enghouse maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with their telecom customers, ensuring that network issues were addressed promptly.
“Skedler was a tremendous help because it was a very easy application to bring up with Grafana and Kibana,” said John Hirth, Program Manager at Enghouse. By adopting Skedler, Enghouse significantly improved its reporting efficiency, allowing technicians and managers to focus on critical network operations rather than on generating reports manually.
3. Cynet: Streamlining Cybersecurity Reports
Cynet, a cybersecurity platform provider, was facing a significant time drain due to the manual creation of monthly and quarterly security reports for their customers. The company needed to automate these reports to improve operational efficiency and ensure timely delivery of security insights.
By implementing Skedler, Cynet was able to automate the creation and distribution of PDF security reports from their Elasticsearch-Kibana environment. This move saved Cynet’s operations team over 20 hours per month, allowing them to focus on delivering high-value services to clients instead of spending time on repetitive tasks.
In the words of Shiran Grinberg, CyOps Team Manager at Cynet, “With Skedler, we’ve been able to produce 20 reports for our major customers within one month, and we’ve already started to see the benefits.”
Skedler: The Right Tool for Automation
Skedler offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to make reporting easy, customizable, and automated. Here are some key capabilities that set Skedler apart:
- Customizable Templates: Users can create highly customizable templates that reflect their brand identity and tailor the report format to meet specific business needs.
- Multi-Format Support: Skedler supports a variety of formats including PDF, Excel, CSV, and PNG, ensuring that reports can be distributed in the preferred format for different stakeholders.
- Automated Scheduling: Skedler’s automated scheduling feature allows users to set specific intervals for report generation and delivery, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
- Seamless Integration: Skedler integrates effortlessly with Kibana, Grafana, and Elasticsearch, making it easy to incorporate automated reporting into existing data visualization workflows.
Conclusion: Embrace the Future with Skedler
In a world where data is critical to decision-making, manual reporting is an issue. Businesses that embrace automated reporting tools like Skedler can significantly improve their efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Whether you’re looking to save time, reduce errors, or deliver better insights, Skedler is the ideal solution for organizations using Grafana, Kibana, or Elasticsearch.
As demonstrated by companies like ONYPHE, Enghouse, and Cynet, Skedler not only streamlines the reporting process but also enhances the value delivered to clients and stakeholders. If you’re still relying on manual reports, it’s time to make the switch. With Skedler, you can automate your reporting process and focus on what truly matters—making better, data-driven decisions. Start your free trial today!