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id: feature/573317
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title: Monitor usage of Open in Excel with telemetry
summary: "Governance and administration: Monitor usage of Open in Excel with telemetry. Generally available, GA 2026-10 (Microsoft 365 roadmap). Logging Open in Excel actions to telemetry makes data export events auditable, which can be critical for compliance, security investigations, and understanding how customers use Business Central."
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    title: Analyze Open in Excel telemetry
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---

# Monitor usage of Open in Excel with telemetry

> Governance and administration: Monitor usage of Open in Excel with telemetry. Generally available, GA 2026-10 (Microsoft 365 roadmap). Logging Open in Excel actions to telemetry makes data export events auditable, which can be critical for compliance, security investigations, and understanding how customers use Business Central.

[Microsoft 365 roadmap 573317](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=573317) · Governance and administration · generally available · roadmap status "Launched", phase General Availability

## What Microsoft says

Logging Open in Excel actions to telemetry makes data export events auditable, which can be critical for compliance, security investigations, and understanding how customers use Business Central.

## Dates

- General availability: October CY2026 (2026 release wave 2)
- Public preview: not given
- On the roadmap since 2026-09-30, last changed 2026-09-30

## Covered by

Matched by Haiku among videos and Learn pages in the same galaxy system, checked against the roadmap ids and the evidence text. Every link below was reviewed by Opus.

### Videos

- [What's new: Server and Database (2026 release wave 2)](../videos/Sh3ySQSTw-o.md): Telemetry for Excel export audit at [11:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh3ySQSTw-o&t=705s)

### Microsoft Learn

- [Analyze Open in Excel telemetry](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-open-in-excel-trace)

Source: Microsoft 365 roadmap. Status words follow the roadmap.