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# Monitor and analyze telemetry

> Telemetry monitoring in Business Central covers turning on Application Insights telemetry, the available event IDs, analysis with KQL and Power BI, alerting, and cost control. It answers questions about setup, which events exist, how to query them, and how to manage cost and retention.

Path: [Administration](../administration.md) > Monitor and analyze telemetry · tier official · system platform · narrative reviewed (checked by Opus)

## Overview

Business Central can send telemetry to Azure Application Insights, for online and on-premises deployments. The section starts with the overview page on enabling telemetry at environment and app level. A separate page covers setting the connection string or instrumentation key for the server, admin center, or individual tenants.

## Key points

- Enable telemetry by configuring an Application Insights connection string or instrumentation key for the server, admin center, or individual tenants; this works for online and on-premises.
- Available Telemetry and Telemetry Event IDs list events by event ID, grouped as application, client, lifecycle and runtime events; AL event IDs have a prefix.
- The KQL page queries the traces and pageViews tables and custom dimensions, with examples for report usage, session tracking, user activity and timezone conversion.
- Power BI apps are free and open source, with usage, error, performance and administration reports and sample data.
- Alerts can be built with Power BI Metrics, Application Insights alerts, Logic Apps or Power Automate, using KQL queries.
- Controlling Telemetry Cost covers daily ingestion caps, data collection rules, sampling, retention periods and cost monitoring.
- The Telemetry FAQ covers cost control, custom dimensions overflow, data retention, log analytics queries and the purge API.
- Telemetry by area has 61 reference pages with events, custom dimensions and sample KQL for areas such as performance, locks, extensions, permissions, web services, jobs, AI and MCP.

## Subtopics

- [Telemetry by area](monitor-and-analyze-telemetry/telemetry-by-area.md) (61 pages)

## More Learn pages

- [Alert on Telemetry](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-alert): Learn how to alert on Business Central telemetry.
- [Analyze and monitor telemetry with KQL](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-analyze-with-kql): Learn how to query Business Central telemetry with KQL.
- [Analyze and monitor telemetry with Power BI](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-power-bi-app): Learn how to install, configure, and use the Power BI app on Business Central telemetry data.
- [Available Telemetry](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-available-telemetry): Get an overview of available telemetry in Business Central
- [Controlling Telemetry Cost](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-control-cost): Learn how to control the cost of Business Central provides telemetry.
- [Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-overview): Learn how Business Central provides telemetry for each environment, both for online and on-premises environments.
- [Telemetry Event IDs in Application Insights \| Microsoft Docs](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-event-ids): Learn about the event IDs of Business Central events emitted to Azure Application Insights.
- [Telemetry FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-faq): See frequently asked questions we get on telemetry in Business Central
- [Turn sending telemetry to application insights on or off](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-enable-application-insights): Learn how you can get richer telemetry by connecting your Business Central with Application Insights for telemetry.

## Videos, posts and code changes

Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item's summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated.

- [#10573 BC IQ - Adding data categorization](../../../changes/bcapps/10573.md) (code change): "Data categorization for BC IQ to codeunit 1751 Data Classification Eval"
- [Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring your customer’s network speed from telemetry.](../../../posts/demiliani-com/13369.md) (community post): "Business Central now includes hardware and network telemetry parameters in page views"
- [Client Crash? Check Error Dialog signal](../../../posts/duiliotacconi-com/1501.md) (community post): "Dashboard tiles built on RT0030 (by failure reason, details, stack trace and timeline) showed InvalidOperation errors"
- [How to choose the best Update Window in Dynamics 365 Business Central Online](../../../posts/duiliotacconi-com/1537.md) (community post): "KQL telemetry queries that count platform hotfix deployments by local hour"
- [Handling Business Central Telemetry like a boss: iFacto Telemetry – Pt. 3](../../../posts/waldo-be/317845.md) (community post): "Dashboard visualization consolidates custom telemetry and daily telemetry data"
- [What's New: Telemetry (2023 release wave 2)](../../../videos/7rIHz0zrgWU.md) (video): "telemetry; performance analysis; ai insights; error troubleshooting"
- [Connect Power BI Telemetry Apps to Read your Business Central Telemetry Data (2023)](../../../videos/BOY2442wHSc.md) (video): "power bi; telemetry; application insights; data connection"
- [Get Low-Friction Go-Lives and Optimize Your Investments with Telemetry Data](../../../videos/F_pssS0FtUc.md) (video): "telemetry data usage analytics power bi reporting go-live optimization"

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