Now that we know how to configure and
manage Search, let's take a look at
monitoring SharePoint Search. First of
all, Search gives us a number of reports
that we can use in order to find out what
people are searching for and using Search
for. We have quite a few reports such as
number of queries, top queries per day or
per month, abandoned queries so searches
that people did and they didn't click on
any results, and searches with no results.
All of those reports are exported to Excel
so you can always send it to the intranet
managers like say, to inform them if a lot
of people are searching for let's say,
vacation policies or for certain policies
and they're not finding the results that
they want. As an administrator we can also
inspect the crawl log in SharePoint
Online, and this is mostly used to see if
there were any Search errors crawling
something or to see how come something
does not appear in the index? The cmdlet
is Get-PnPSearchCrawlLog, and we can
specify a few parameters to get what we
want from filtering on the URL. Filtering
on a content source or only getting
errors, for example. This cmdlet is part
of the PnP PowerShell cmdlet, and I have
added a link to the documentation so you can also view other examples in there.