Google Admin menu structure

I always loved the Google Admin portal. It is a great web interface to the configuration of the Google (Workspace) features. The site has a good response and is easy to navigate. It is the place where Google themes Secure, Simple, Speed come together. With a great speed, Google makes complex admin tasks simple, to ensure security for the users & devices connected to your Google Domain and the data stored in your Google domain. 

So why this blog post? While the tool is great and fast, I notice that different Google product teams are not always doing the best collaboration. At least that is what I make out of it. The other option, that Google wants to make it more complex seems less logical to me.

To provide a few examples. In the main menu you have a Reporting option (see screenshot).  Great. You would think that everything about reporting is there. Especially as you see different sub menu items like Audit, Apps reports and Devices. The Google Workspace Apps Monthly Uptime report even has its own menu item, and the email log search can be found here as well. All good.

Guess again. While most reporting items are indeed to be found in this menu item, some Google product teams have their own idea about Reporting. Two examples:

- The Google Meet product team makes the Reporting part of the service configuration. Within the Google Meet app configuration you can find the Google Meet quality tool. MENU: Apps > Google Workspace > Settings for Google Meet > Meet quality tool. This 'tool' provides a report about your Google Meet meetings and the technical quality of the meeting. E.g. connectivity and device performance details are shown. Personally I would expect this tool as part of the Reporting section, just like the tool Email log search is part of the reporting section.  

- Another example is the Google Chrome product team. This team even makes it owns Reporting menu item. While Google also provides in "Reporting > Reports > Devices > " several reports on devices and Chrome, the Chrome team also built the menu "Devices > Chrome > Reports". You can see this Reports menu item in the screenshot below. If you find this already strange, Google wanted to make it more complex. In the Devices section, there are actually reports which are not below the Reports items in Devices. E.g. the Devices > Chrome > Devices (Which is a strange menu breakdown on itself) shows a report of devices connected to your domain. Not to be confused with the "Devices > Chrome > Reports > Devices" report which shows how many devices are connected to your domain. 

Dear Google, 

Can you bring back the simplicity of the Google Admin tool? Please collaboration internally to ensure that those menu items make sense for the average Google admin.   

Thank you!