BC Telemetry Buddy – When Your 12-Year-Old Accidentally Helps You Find a Problem
BC Telemetry Buddy is an MCP-based VS Code tool that lets you question Business Central telemetry in natural language instead of writing KQL. A casual demo question exposed a customer whose background queue codeunit ran slow full table scans on an unindexed queue table that lacked a retention policy. Diagnosis took about 15 minutes, and enabling retention plus adding an index removed the waste.
"One question. One answer. Immediate diagnosis with lots of details!"
Key points
- BC Telemetry Buddy uses AI over MCP so telemetry can be explored conversationally instead of through hand-written KQL.
- It flagged a customer where the codeunit ISC Process Update Queue Meth caused most of the wasted processing time through full table scans on an unindexed, unpurged queue table.
- Before the fix, about 19,946 slow queries ran each morning at 3.4 s on average; a month later only 18 ran in 7 days at 0.8 s, and Job Queue Dispatcher dropped below 25 minutes.
- Investigations can be saved as markdown files in the workspace, which makes it easy to check later that a fix worked.
Quotes
- “One question. One answer. Immediate diagnosis with lots of details!” (Demonstrates the core value proposition: BC Telemetry Buddy transforms hours of manual investigation into a single conversational query, dramatically reducing time investment for performance diagnostics.)
AL objects mentioned
As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
- codeunit “ISC Process Update Queue Meth”
Not found in BC28-30: codeunit “ISC Process Update Queue Meth”.
Context
- Features: Natural language telemetry queries, Automated performance analysis, Investigation documentation, Table indexing recommendations, Retention policy management, CPU time analysis
Source: waldo’s blog, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.