Get Your Event Monitoring Wave App

Hey there! Salesforce Shield and Event Monitoring expands from Event Log API to built in, out of the box data visualization with Event Monitoring Wave App. Now Generally Available (GA)! Big thanks to Adam for all the heavy lifting with the Admin Analytics pilot (former name). 

If you missed the announcement from June, here's the deal what you need to know.

• Event Monitoring supports 32 different Salesforce event types and it can be quite a job to integrate the data flow and figure out which events to subscribe and visualize and build custom dashboards
• Event Monitoring customers and partners have now access to Event Monitoring Wave App with 15 built-in dashboards for the core use cases 1. Security, 2. Application Development and Performance monitoring and 3. Salesforce Use and Adoption
• Event Monitoring Wave App includes API integration with Event Log Files API providing immediate value out of the box by simply turning Event Monitoring on for your app but also a great point and click interface to slice and dice the data your way with ways to customize dashboards your own way
• The Event Monitoring Wave App is licensed for 10 users and 50 million record row limit and there's configuration wizard to select which datasets to include and for how long (default is 7 days) depending on your app's data volume

Security and compliance are a very strong drivers for Event Monitoring customers and we have spent the most of our time building different views for security and compliance related dashboards. Hope you enjoy them, here's a quick walkthrough of each:

• My Trust: inspired by trust.salesforce.com, My Trust is a single place to view the health of your Salesforce app, active users, total transactions, average and max page time and end user page time. Drill down to different event types and compare daily trends.
• Report Downloads: see the percentage of viewed reports that resulted in exports, as well as report export trends by different user agents and IPs that can be filtered down by inactive users to indicate suspicious or large volume of data export activity
• REST API: analyze who is using the API for example with Data Loader to manage or move large data sets and identify possible hot spots for REST API that are used by managed packages 
• Login As: understand admin behavior logging in as end users and identify possible abuse, where they logged in and who are they and what pages were accessed
• User Logins: see login trends per user, who is using the application the most, identify IP addressed with shared logins for signs of suspicious use as well as understand what browsers are being used and average times being logged in
• Setup Audit Trail: identify what admins are doing in the setup and keep track on most common audit changes and their types
• Files: get visibility which files are being downloaded by different roles, period of time to help identify the top files or resources that are barely being used

Application Development and Performance is also a very important topic to continuously monitor and stay in the know of the application health and understand if some reports are taking long to produce or if certain Apex jobs should be timed differently to avoid hitting governance limits. Here's what we've built for Salesforce developers:

• Apex Execution: help to prioritize which Apex classes to fix to improve overall performance by comparing overall Apex performance, CPU time, SOQL and DML interactions based on total DB time
• Reports: see report usage trends accross users and profiles and identify top reports and get visibility into most used reports as well as their performance to load
• API: see API trends per Object and the overall API performance during certain period of time including average CPU time per API
• Dashboards: get visibility into Dashboard usage trends over time and the performance of these dashboards so you can prioritize in troubleshooting

Last but definitely not least, understanding Adoption and User Engagement for the Salesforce application is key. What are my users doing, how are they accessing the application, when and what are the top resources or click paths. These are valuable for the line of business, executives, IT teams as well as developers alike:

• Lightning SFX: provides visibility who are the users using the new Lightning User Interface and how it's performing, see how many total user interactions took place and what the average and max end user page time (EPT) looks like
• Page Views (URI): see what pages the users are clicking the most and how much time they are spending, on average, on these pages. Drill down to additional details for users details and he/she is accessing or drill down to actual pages who are the users using them
• Visualforce Requests: see the most used Visualforce pages and prioritize troubleshooting based on performance e.g. sorting by runtime you can quickly see the slowest pages, or AppExchange adoption
• Wave Adoption: last but not least, you have pushed out Event Monitoring Wave App or Sales or Service Wave, and you want to know are your users actually using it, identify details at user level and how many interactions they have with Wave dashboards and which ones they are customizing

We hope you enjoy the app and will find these built in visualizations useful. You can use your 10 permission set licenses as viewers or editors/managers. If you require more users or are nearing the 50 million limit you can get in touch with your Account Executive to get more with Wave Platform.

If you are an existing Event Monitoring customer and haven't yet tried out the Event Monitoring Wave App: please follow these instructions to get set up. If you're new a customer interested to learn more about Event Monitoring and the Event Monitoring Wave App, get in touch with you Salesforce Account Executive to get started. 

For anything else, please leave questions or comments here or reach out on Twitter to @salomaa. Thanks and sunny summertime from San Francisco!

-Jari