Update Metric Data
Security Center automatically updates data one time per day. If you want to update data more frequently, you can update most metrics on demand.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions with the Security Center add-on license. |
| Available for free in: Developer Edition |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view Security Center pages: | View Security Center |
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Security Center takes a scheduled snapshot of data one time per day. The process can take a few hours to complete.
Note For Developer Edition orgs, assign at least one user with the Manage Security Center
permission to collect metrics.
| Instance Region | Update Time |
|---|---|
| NA | 8 am GMT |
| CS | 8 am GMT |
| AP | 4 pm GMT |
| EU | 11 pm GMT |
| UM | 11 pm GMT |
Note You can also update individual metrics on-demand one time per hour. Health Check is
automatically updated hourly.
- In the Security Center app, navigate to a metric detail page.
- Click Update Data.Status lines show the time that the last update was initiated and how many tenants reported data.
- At any time during an update, click the tenant reporting status link to see a list of tenants supplying updated information.
- To view new data during and after an update, refresh the page.
Keep this information in mind when you update Security Center data.
- Metric updates made in a parent tenant also update the same metric data in all of that parent’s child tenants, and vice versa.
- As a service protection, you can update data one time per hour.
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