Custom reports can be automatically delivered to your email, FTP or S3 bucket, or Google Cloud Storage on the schedule of your choice. When creating a custom report, select the ‘Schedule Automated Report’ box, then open the ‘Scheduled Reports’ tab to choose the schedule and configure the delivery method.

When creating a new Custom Report and selecting Schedule Automated Report, the Scheduled Reports tab becomes editable. Complete the setup by selecting the following:

• Report Frequency:
  • Daily: Reports will be sent each morning for the previous day.
  • Weekly: Reports will be delivered on Monday mornings for the previous week.
  • Monthly: Reports will be delivered on the first of each month for the previous month.
  • Custom:
    • Set a specific day frequency. For example, every 2 days.
    • Set a specific week frequency on a specific day. For example, every 2 weeks on Monday.
• Reporting Interval: Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Month to Date, Previous Month, Custom
  • Custom: Last __ Days
• Deliver by: Choose delivery method by selecting the checkbox for each.
  • Email
    • Email addresses should be separated by comma.
  • FTP
    • FTP Server
    • FTP Path
    • FTP Port
    • FTP Username
      FTP Password
  • AWS S3
    • Bucket: This is the name of the bucket, e.g. example.bucket. Bucket name does not contain a leading backslash or the s3:// prefix.
      • Creating a bucket in AWS S3:
        • In AWS S3 click Create Bucket
        • Chose a bucket name that is available and the desired AWS Region.
        • Change Object Ownership to ACLs enabled.
        • Uncheck Block all public access field and check “I acknowledge that the current settings might result in this bucket and the objects within becoming public”.
        • Click Create bucket.
        • Navigate to the newly created bucket and click Create folder with the output path that we chose in Pontiac (“output-path”). Confirm to create the folder.
      • Setting up the report in Pontiac:
        • Go to Reporting tab and then click New Custom Report.
        • Select Log Level Report from the Report Type Drop Down
        • Go to Scheduled Reports tab and check Deliver by S3 box.
        • In the expandable section fill out the Bucket field with the AWS S3 Bucket name. Example: S3-test-bucket.
        • Fill out the Path field with a desired output path location and file name (To include the date macro use dateInt (YYYYMMDD) like xxx/filename-%dateInt% otherwise your file will be overwritten each day). Example: output-path/Pontiac-reports.csv or output-path/Pontiac-reports-%dateInt%.csv
        • Click View security policy and copy the full text area.
        • Go to Amazon AWS S3 and modify permissions for the bucket we chose earlier. In the Permissions tab click Edit and paste the policy text from earlier and Save.
        • Back in Pontiac reports screen click Verify and wait for a successful confirmation message.
    • Path: This will be the full location that the report is saved to. To include the date macro use dateInt (YYYYMMDD) like xxx/filename-%dateInt% otherwise your file will be overwritten each day.
    • View Security Policy
    • Verify your configured bucket policy.
  • Google Cloud Storage
    • Bucket: This is the name of the bucket, e.g. example.bucket. Bucket name does not contain a leading backslash or the gs:// prefix.
    • Path: This will be the full location that the report is saved to. To include the date macro use dateInt (YYYYMMDD) like xxx/filename-%dateInt% otherwise your file will be overwritten each day.
    • Credentials: Valid json object.