Microsoft Yammer Dashboard

The eG Enterprise monitoring console offers a dedicated Microsoft Yammer Dashboard, out-of-the-box. The different pages of this dashboard help you find quick and accurate answers to the following questions:

• Is the Microsoft Yammer service healthy? If not, then what type of service incidents are affecting the health of the service?

• Did login fail recently?

• Are user logins taking longer than usual?

• Are there any inactive users on Microsoft Yammer?

• Which type of device was most frequently used for accessing Microsoft Yammer?

• Are there any inactive groups on Microsoft Yammer?

• Which type of user operations failed leading to poor user experience?

• Is the level of activity on Yammer abnormally high or low?

• Which type of activity is frequently performed by the users?

The dashboard also embeds smart drill-downs, which enable you to go from problem symptom to source within a click!

To access the dashboard, click on the Monitor tile and select Microsoft Yammer from the Dashboards menu. Then, move your mouse pointer over the Yammer icon in the left panel of the page that appears, and click the Service Health option within.

To view the Microsoft Yammer dashboard of a particular tenant, choose that tenant from the Tenant list box at the right, top corner.

The sections that follow will discuss each page of the Microsoft Yammer dashboard in detail.

SERVICE HEALTH

To access the SERVICE HEALTH page, move your mouse pointer over the Yammer icon in the left panel, and click on the Service Health option within.

Use the SERVICE HEALTH page to monitor the health of the Microsoft Yammer service. The SERVICE HEALTH page of the dashboard provides a bird's eye view of the health which includes service availability, Yammer activity details, latencies and user experience.

The SERVICE HEALTH page indicates the current health state of the Microsoft Yammer service using intuitive text, colors, and imagery. The Service Incidents section indicates the number of service incidents that are currently occurring on the Microsoft Yammer service. Unplanned service incidents can impact service availability and responsiveness. To indicate if such incidents have occurred, the SERVICE HEALTH page reports the number of service incidents in the Service Incidents counter.

The Events counter alerts you to problem events that eG Enterprise may have captured on the Microsoft Yammer service. To zoom into these events, click on the Events count. The All Events page will then open, where you can view the complete details of all eG alarms related to the Microsoft Yammer service.

The Web Availability section indicates whether/not an HTTP/S connection to Microsoft Yammer is currently available. Unavailability/inaccessiblity of Yammer over the web can thus be instantly ascertained.

The Logon Status section indicates whether/not logins to Microsoft Yammer were successful. The Login time section indicates the time taken by a user to log into Microsoft Yammer. This helps administrators proactively detect and resolve login delays.

The Yammer Activity section indicates a doughnut pie chart revealing the total number of unique users who frequently liked, posted and read the messages on Microsoft Yammer. With the help of this doughnut pie chart, you can figure out which type of activity was most frequently performed by the users. The User Operations section indicates the time taken by a user to post/like/delete the messages in Microsoft Yammer. Similarly, the time taken by the user to upload/delete a file in Microsoft Yammer can also be identified. Using the User Operations section, administrators can figure out which type of Yammer activity is taking too long to complete. If users complain of slowness when working with Yammer, then this section will help administrators accurately identify the exact type of user operation that is causing the slowness.

The Average Latency section shows the average time taken by the Yammer site to respond to TCP connection requests that it receives. This section helps the administrators to figure out when the Average Latency was maximum during the last 1 week. With the help of this graph, you can look back at the last 1 week and study how the Average Latency was maintained during that time window. In the process, you can quickly figure out how often during that time window, maximum latency was noticed.

The Response Time section shows the time taken by Microsoft Yammer to respond to web requests. This section helps the administrators to figure out at which time windows during the last week, Response Time was very poor.

Unplanned service incidents can impact service availability and responsiveness. To indicate if such incidents have occurred, the SERVICE HEALTH page reports the service incidents in the List of Service Incidents section. Using this section, you can figure out what incidents occurred and which services were impacted.

USER EXPERIENCE

To access the USER EXPERIENCE page, move your mouse pointer over the Yammer icon in the left panel, and click on the User Experience option within.

The USER EXPERIENCE page focuses on the user interaction with Microsoft Yammer on a regular basis, which involves activities like posting messages, deleting messages, liking messages, and uploading/deleting the files in/from Microsoft Yammer.

The USER EXPERIENCE page reveals whether any user operation (eg., posting, reading, liking, uploading, deleting) has failed.

The Average Time Taken For Each Operation section shows a horizontal bar chart which reveals the average time taken to post/delete/like the messages in Microsoft Yammer as well as the time taken to upload/delete the files to/from Microsoft Yammer. With the help of this graph, you can quickly figure out which operation was the slowest in the last 2 days.

If the Average Time Taken For Each Operation section reveals slowness in any user operation during the last 2 days, then you can use the Time Taken to . . . graph of the corresponding operation to closely study that operation's behavior during the last week. This historical analysis will help you determine whether the slowness was consistent or sporadic.

USER/GROUPS

To access the USER/GROUPS page, move your mouse pointer over the Yammer icon in the left panel, and click on the User/Groups option within.

The USER/GROUPS page provides a comprehensive view of the usage of Microsoft Yammer.

The Groups section in USER/GROUPS page shows the number of Active Users, Total Groups and Active Groups in Microsoft Yammer. This way, you can quickly know how many groups are inactive on Microsoft Yammer.

The Users by Device section in USER/GROUPS page focuses on the devices that the users use to connect to Microsoft Yammer. A quick look at the dashboard will reveal how actively Microsoft Yammer has been used, and what type of devices were used to access it.

The Users section indicates a doughnut pie chart which represents the total number of users who are currently active/inactive on Microsoft Yammer. If there are too many inactive users, it is a cause for concern as it could imply that Microsoft Yammer is losing its popularity.

The Users by Activity section displays a doughnut pie chart which represents the number of unique users who liked/posted/read the messages on Microsoft Yammer. This helps administrators identify the type of activity that is frequently performed by the users.

The Groups section shows a doughnut pie chart which represents the number of communities/groups that are currently active/inactive on Microsoft Yammer. The inactive groups/communities can thus be quickly isolated.

The Message in Groups section reveals a doughnut pie chart which represents the total number of messages that were liked/posted/read by the users in all communities/groups created on Microsoft Yammer. This is a good indicator of the level of user activity in Microsoft Yammer.