我想在谷歌表格中绘制一段时间内的错误

Question

I have hundreds of computers at my workplace that I monitor. Sometimes these computers are bound to fail. I want to be able to write down the date and the computer that failed, and to be able to see the trends over time.

The overall goal is to see where the problematic computers are and quarantine them. What is the best way to go about doing that in excel or google sheets?

Answer 1

Set up a new spreadsheet (I recommend Google Sheets, since it will allow more flexibility with future implementations such as feeding results to the spreadsheet with forms, etc.).

Name the first sheet something simple yet descriptive (perhaps "FailureLog").

Include at least the following headers:

• in A1: Date • in B1: Computer ID

That is all you really need, though you may also want additional columns, eg:

• in C1: Location • in D1: Error Type

Then just add your data under the appropriate headers. From that, any number of reports can be generated. The first step is to get data entered in a meaningful and consistent way.

By consistent, it is very important that you enter Computer IDs in exactly the same way each time. You can't call the same computer X001 , X-001 and X1 or it will be seen as three different computers.

Once you do the above — setting up a sheet, deciding which fields to include, and gathering some data — create a new post, sharing a link to that spreadsheet, and contributors here will be able to use that to suggest some report formulas for you.

If you want, you could even enter some realistic dummy data into the spreadsheet and post the link back here. With that, contributors here could make suggestions on error controls, formatting, data validation (to prevent errors in the first place), etc.

We just have to have something to start with.