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Federated Search usage reports

Federated search is a feature in Shareoint 2010, where results from external sites, other sharepoint farms, Local sites in same farm can be queried and results be displayed.

On how to configure federated search, refer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint__cloud/archive/2012/03/12/configure-federated-search-to-get-results-from-remote-another-sharepoint-2010-farm.aspx

Consider a federated search webpart in farm B, where the search results are from Farm A.

To know the usage of the federated search, will have to check the reports in source farm (Farm A).

Go to central admin - Application Management - Manage Service Application - Click on the search service application

On the left pane, Under Reports, click on Web Analytics report

The usage report would show the total usage report of the search service application

Say the search service application is used by a site collection and also by the federated search

So, say it shows 1000 No of queries for the past 30 days. Site collection usage reports shows 650 no of queries in the site collection. Then the remaining 350 hits are from the RSS feed

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