# How to control the Reporting?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 8, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394 "2016-12-08T06:30:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sitanxin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@sitanxin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sitanxin)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394/1 "2016-12-08T06:30:58Z")

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In the Kibana 5, there is a "reporting" option to generate the printable PDF. But how to control the frequence or other options? Like if we want to autogenerate it once a month,  
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394/2 "2016-12-08T07:49:25Z")

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The best option is to hook that into a Watch - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/automating-report-generation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/automating-report-generation.html)

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**Author:** ![sitanxin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@sitanxin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sitanxin)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394/3 "2016-12-08T08:36:21Z")

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Got it. Thanks so much.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-reporting/68394/4 "2017-01-05T08:36:30Z")

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