SkieWhat are daily snapshots in Insights and why do they matter?
Skie saves a daily snapshot of the key figures for each group, so Insights can show how things changed over days and weeks, not just how they look today. Snapshots are what make trends, pattern detection and before and after comparisons possible. They record the measurable figures only.
A number on its own is hard to judge. Is 40 in a group a lot or a little? You only know when you can see yesterday, last week and last month. A daily snapshot per group is how Skie keeps that history.
Each day the figures for a group are recorded: readiness, fully compliant devices, average compliance, devices on the latest policy and app, online and silent share, low battery, open events per device and policy reach. Because the snapshots are per group, you can roll them up to a branch, school or organisation, or look at one class.
That history is the foundation for the more advanced parts of Insights. Pattern detection compares the last seven days with the previous twenty-eight. Intervention memory lets you note that you changed something and then shows the figures before and after. Both depend on a steady daily record rather than on whatever the dashboard happens to show now. See pattern detection and intervention memory.
Skie only snapshots what it can reliably measure. Usage and screen time are not measured yet, so they are not in the history, and Skie does not make up figures to fill the gap. See what is not measured yet.
Retention of the history is limited, and configurable retention is not available yet. If you rely on a particular period of history, ask the team how long it is kept before you build a process around it.
Practical tip: record a note when you make a significant change, so a bend in the line later has an explanation attached.