Search monitoring displays the status of your search in real-time. The real-time status appears in both an animated display, and in a table, as shown in Figure 23.1. Search monitoring allows you to see which search sources return results the fastest. Search monitoring is available if the search monitoring Federated Search option is installed.

To display search monitoring, click Status as soon as the search has started.

To replay the animation after the search has completed, click the Refresh icon, . When you replay the animation, you see a replay of how the search occurred. Replaying the animation does not rerun the query.

In the animation, each search source is represented by a pie slice. The number of layers in a slice corresponds to the number of results: one layer indicates no results; two layers indicate 1 to 50 results; and three layers indicate 51 or more results. Modified configurations might vary.

The color of a slice indicates the source status: blue when searching, green when the search is completed, and orange if the search has failed.

Click a source’s slice to highlight its corresponding row in the table.

Click Show native query to view the native query that indicates how the query was translated for the source

The animation displays the sources sixteen by sixteen, so the first view of the animation only displays the first sixteen sources. If you are running the search against more than sixteen sources, you can see the next sixteen sources by clicking Next below the animation.

If a search fails for a given source, a detailed error message is displayed in the Note column of the table. To get additional information about the error, select Tools > View messages.

Note: If you launch the monitoring when viewing the results of saved searches or the last search results, the query is not rerun, and the animation does not replay entirely. The source status is first waiting with zero result then it is immediately updated to show the final status of the sources, and the number of valid results returned by each of them.