1. Initial configuration for URL (Normalized)

About this task

To review the initial configuration for the URL (Normalized) dimension, complete the following steps.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Portal as an administrator.
  2. From the Portal menu, select Events > Manage Events.
  3. The Event Manager is displayed. Click the Dimensions tab.
  4. In the Report Group panel on the left, select the URL/Host/App/Server report group.
  5. The dimensions of the report group are displayed in the dimension list.
  6. Right-click the URL (Normalized) dimension and select Edit Dimension....
  7. The dimension definition is displayed for editing and review.

Results

When Discover is first installed or upgraded, the URL (Normalized) is configured in the following manner.

Note: Discover Professional Services may already perform the initial configuration and population of the URL (Normalized) dimension for your Discover solution.

Dimensions and other event-related objects such as events, hit attributes, session attributes, and alerts are configured through the Discover Event Manager.

In the above configuration, the following values should be reviewed immediately:

Table 1. 1. Initial Configuration for URL (Normalized)
Setting Default Value Description
Values to Record Whitelist Only This setting defines the values that are captured to this dimension. The default setting for the URL (Normalized) dimension captures values to the dimension from the whitelist, which contains no values until you add them.
  • For other dimensions that you create or that are provided by Discover, the default configuration sets this option to Whitelist + Observed Values. In addition to populating the data from any configured whitelist, it is also populated by all values that are detected in the capture stream. Immediately after saving the configuration, any detected values are recorded to the dimension.
    Note: All observed values are written into the database as new entries for the dimension value. For high-volume dimensions such as URL (Normalized), Discover recommends setting this option to Whitelist Only. Make the following configuration changes.
Max Values Per Hour 1000 This setting defines the maximum number of unique values that can be captured for this dimension in a given hour. Each hour, the counter resets to zero, and the next 1000 detected values are available for capture or logging.
Note: Depending on the number of normalized URLs that can be generated by visitor activities on your web application, this setting may be too low, and you may begin seeing dimension values that are recorded as the [limit] value. You may want to change this immediately. See Monitoring limit configuration.
Note: This setting does not apply if the dimension is configured to use a whitelist only. For these dimensions, you should monitor the [others] value, which identifies values that are not included in the whitelist.
  • For dimensions using whitelist + observed values, you may still reach the [limit] value, in which case your whitelist should be updated.
Logging OFF When logging is ON, all observed values are written into database logs, even if they are on a whitelist. This feature is provided for the creation of whitelists, which is very important to do for the URL (Normalized) dimension.
Note: Enable the logging of the URL (Normalized) dimension.
Other configuration Dimension values do not appear and cannot be logged or recorded as observed values until the dimension was associated with a non-default report group. This limitation does not apply to the URL (Normalized) dimension, which is part of the URL/Host/App/Server report group. For other high-volume dimensions that you create, you must add them to a report group.