Insightful patch management reports to track every step of the patching process.

Patching without reporting is work you cannot prove you did. The deployment might have succeeded, but if you cannot show which systems are patched, which are still exposed, and which failed, the patching itself is only half the job. Patch reports close that gap by turning activity into visibility.

That visibility does specific work:

• It exposes what is still vulnerable. A report showing missing patches and vulnerable systems tells you where risk actually sits, rather than assuming a deployment reached everything.
• It drives prioritization. With patches ranked by severity and critical vulnerabilities surfaced separately, teams can fix what matters first instead of treating every update as equal.
• It produces audit evidence. Frameworks expect proof of timely patching. Patch reports supply the records that demonstrate due diligence during an audit, rather than a scramble to reconstruct them after.
• It catches silent failures. Failed deployments and machines awaiting a reboot are where compliance quietly breaks. A report surfaces them before they become the gap someone exploits.
• It communicates risk upward. Executives do not read deployment logs. A compliance summary translates patch status into the risk language leadership acts on.

The final step of any successful patch strategy is reporting. Patch Manager Plus helps you run comprehensive reports, easily filter data and share results with others in a variety of formats to help address vulnerabilities. There are several reports that help tracking critical updates, install statuses, failed updates, vulnerability database updates and more.

Patch Manager Plus ships a set of predefined patch reports, each built for a specific question. The reports below are ready to run and drill into, so you are not building queries from scratch to answer routine questions.

Missing patches awaiting approval report

This report lists every missing patch that has not yet been approved for deployment. It matters because unapproved patches are a blind spot: the vulnerability is known and the fix exists, but nothing has authorized it to deploy. Use it as a working queue to review and approve pending patches before they age into exposure.

Vulnerable patches report

This lists the missing patches across the network and, for each one, the systems it affects. Its value is in connecting a patch to its blast radius, so you can see not just what is missing but where. Use it to decide which patches to deploy to move the fleet toward a fully patched state.

Vulnerable systems report

This separates healthy systems from vulnerable ones, with drill-down into the installed and missing patches per system. It is the report that answers which machines are at risk, which is often the first question in an incident or an audit. Use it to reduce the risk concentrated in a handful of exposed endpoints, and to identify non-compliant systems fast.

Systems requiring reboot report

Patches often need a reboot to finish applying, and users do not reliably restart their machines. This report lists systems where a reboot is pending, which matters because a patch that is installed but not activated leaves the system still exposed. Use it to schedule reboots and confirm patches actually took effect.

Critical vulnerability report

This surfaces updates for zero-day and critical vulnerabilities, the Meltdown and Spectre class of issue, with a filter by vulnerability type and the option to install the patch directly from the report. It exists because critical vulnerabilities cannot wait in a general queue. Use it during active-threat situations to find and remediate the highest-risk exposures immediately.

Supported patches report

This lists all patches released by the vendor, whether or not they currently apply to your network. Its use is forward-looking: when you plan to upgrade systems or install new applications, it shows the updates available for them. Use it for upgrade planning rather than day-to-day remediation.

Remote office patch summary report

This aggregates patch status by remote office: missing, installed, and applicable patches, plus healthy, vulnerable, and highly vulnerable system counts and managed computers per location. It matters for distributed organizations where a single blended number hides a struggling site. Use it to spot which locations are falling behind and drill into the systems there.

Configuration reports

These document which patch configurations were applied, broken out by user, by computer, and by configuration type, each with filters by domain and time. They matter for traceability: knowing exactly what was applied, to whom, and when. Use them to audit patching actions and answer who changed what during a review.

Custom query reports (on-premises only)

When a predefined report does not surface exactly what you need, the query report retrieves it directly from the database using a SQL query, savable for reuse and exportable to CSV. It is the escape hatch for questions the canned reports do not answer. Note that this report type is available on the on-premises edition only, not on Patch Manager Plus cloud.

Report flexibility

Beyond the reports themselves, the Save as filter feature lets you refine any view and save it for reuse, and reports can be scheduled with automatic email notifications so patch compliance and status data reach stakeholders without anyone running them by hand. Reports can be shared in a range of formats for the audience that needs them.

The reports are covered above. What makes them useful in practice is how they fit different teams and how much of the surrounding work the platform removes.

For IT and security teams

The value is speed to answer. Real-time dashboards and one-click reports mean the question of what is exposed right now gets answered without assembling data by hand, and drill-down moves from a fleet-level number to the specific systems and missing patches behind it. Coverage spans Windows, macOS, Linux, and 1,100+ third-party applications from one console, so reporting is not fragmented across separate tools. For mixed environments, that unified view extends to cross platform patch management and third party patch management in the same reports.

For business and security leaders

The value is translation. Scheduled compliance and status summaries communicate risk and patching progress in terms leadership acts on, delivered by email on a cadence rather than pulled on request. The reporting turns operational activity into a risk narrative without an analyst in the middle.

For compliance and audit

The value is evidence on demand. Reports produce audit-ready records of patch status by system and severity, exportable in the formats auditors ask for, so demonstrating due diligence is a report you run rather than a project you staff.

And because reporting extends to remote and roaming endpoints patched over the internet without a VPN, the compliance picture stays complete even for machines that rarely touch the corporate network. The full reporting set runs on the same patch management software that handles detection and deployment, so the record and the action live in one place.