A segment must collect a certain amount of data before it can establish daily and weekly baselines. The daily baseline requires three days and one hour of collected data. Until the system has been running and collecting data for a segment for this period of time, the analytic metrics related to the segment metrics remains in an initializing state.

The weekly baseline requires three weeks and one day of data. Additionally, for each metric to initialize, there must be some data for the metric in 50 percent of each 15-minute time period. This means that if the segment is a backup that runs only once per day or is active for only a few hours a day, the segment does not initialize.