we've just started playing with search in SP2013 and noticed that an AutoSPInstaller deployed single-server farm doesn't get any Search Analytics (Crawl Health Reports). The CPU/RAM reports work, but Crawl Rate, Crawl Latency, etc are all empty.
I've freshly installed twice and have the same issue (I'm running on srv2008R2 with SQL2012 on a separate server).
Strangely, a multi-server farm install (using AutoSPInstaller) has the Analytics no problem.
I haven't dug too deeply yet, so not sure if this is:
a) User error (I've stuffed up the config for AutoSPInstaller, using AutoSPInstallerGUI)
b) AutoSPInstaller error
c) AutoSPInstallerGUI error
d) something else...
But wondered if anyone else has seen this?
Thanks
Craig
Comments: ** Comment from web user: goonerw **
I've been having this issue on a fresh SP install without using the AutoSPInstaller.
After doing a separate farm install, I noticed that the Crawl Reports were functioning normally, which caused much confusion.
After much searching, I believe I have stumbled onto the solution. On the server (app server in this case) where the crawl/admin/analytics components were running (and CA), the farm account wasn't a member of the local "Performance Log Users" group (it was on the front end servers and the other farm where it was working). The only members of this group were the Search account and the PowerPivot account. All the SP accounts were members of the "Performance Monitor Users" group, which is what made it odd. What caused the farm account to be left out of the first group? I'll never know, but the search crawl analytics are now functioning correctly.