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title: "Configuration Tracking and Alert Correlation"
description: "This report helps you keep an eye on configuration changes that were made in your virtual environment and to track alerting activity across a time range."
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dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# Configuration Tracking and Alert Correlation

This report helps you keep an eye on configuration changes that were made in your virtual environment and to track alerting activity across a time range.

## Description

The **Configuration Tracking and Alert Correlation** report analyzes virtual infrastructure configuration changes, provides detailed information on changes performed within the reporting period and helps track the most frequently changed configuration properties. The report also analyzes the number of alerts triggered during the reporting period, so that you can see correlation between the performed configuration changes and triggered alerts.

## Parameters

Date/time Selection: defines the time period to analyze in the report.

Group changes by: defines whether data in the report will be grouped by *Date* or *Property* .

Order objects by: defines whether data in the report will be sorted by *Name* or *Number of changes* .

Scope: defines a list of Groups or Objects that will be analyzed in the report.  
 The **Add Group** option returns a Group and all objects that a group contains. The **Add Object** option returns only the selected object.

Properties: defines configuration properties for which the report will track changes. The list of available properties will depend on the selected scope.

## Sample Usage

Track configuration changes concerning compute resources (CPU and memory) allocated to a group of virtual machines. Analyze how these changes influenced the number of alerts raised in your virtual environment during this week.

### Instructions

1. Open the Configuration Tracking and Alert Correlation report. 
2. From the **From** list, select *This Week* > *Monday* . From the **To** list, select *This Week* > *Friday* . 
3. From the **Group changes by** list, select *Property* . 
4. From the **Order objects by** list, select *Name* . 
5. In the **Scope** section, include the necessary virtual machines in the report. 

   Click **Add Object** . By default, the Filter Options are configured to include only Veeam MP objects. Click the **Class** column header to sort the search results by class. Choose the necessary VMs in the list, click **Add** and click **OK** .

6. In the **Properties** field, select: 

   *VMware Virtual Machine: CPU Count*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: CPU Limit MHz*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: CPU Reservation MHz*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: CPU Shares*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: Memory Allocation MB*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: Memory Limit MB*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: Memory Reservation MB*

   *VMware Virtual Machine: Memory Shares*

7. Click **Run** to view the report. 

### Report Output

In the **Summary** section, the report will display the following charts:

- The **Top 5 most changing properties** chart will show 5 most frequently changed properties 
- The **Number of changes and alerts by day** chart will show day-by-day of configuration changes performed and the number of alerts raised 

The details section will provide the following information for each VM included in the report scope:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Column </p>
    </th>
    <th style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Column Description </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Property </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Name of the changed property. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Last Value </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> The last specified property value. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Number of Changes </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> The number of times the property was changed. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

For each registered property change, the report will also provide the date of change, old and new property values.