Monitor and analyze telemetry

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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 (61 pages)

More Learn pages

• Alert on Telemetry: Learn how to alert on Business Central telemetry.
• Analyze and monitor telemetry with KQL: Learn how to query Business Central telemetry with KQL.
• Analyze and monitor telemetry with Power BI: Learn how to install, configure, and use the Power BI app on Business Central telemetry data.
• Available Telemetry: Get an overview of available telemetry in Business Central
• Controlling Telemetry Cost: Learn how to control the cost of Business Central provides telemetry.
• Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry: Learn how Business Central provides telemetry for each environment, both for online and on-premises environments.
• Telemetry Event IDs in Application Insights | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the event IDs of Business Central events emitted to Azure Application Insights.
• Telemetry FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): See frequently asked questions we get on telemetry in Business Central
• Turn sending telemetry to application insights on or off: Learn how you can get richer telemetry by connecting your Business Central with Application Insights for telemetry.

Videos, posts and code changes

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• #10573 BC IQ - Adding data categorization (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. (community post): “Business Central now includes hardware and network telemetry parameters in page views”
• Client Crash? Check Error Dialog signal (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 (community post): “KQL telemetry queries that count platform hotfix deployments by local hour”
• Handling Business Central Telemetry like a boss: iFacto Telemetry – Pt. 3 (community post): “Dashboard visualization consolidates custom telemetry and daily telemetry data”
• What’s New: Telemetry (2023 release wave 2) (video): “telemetry; performance analysis; ai insights; error troubleshooting”
• Connect Power BI Telemetry Apps to Read your Business Central Telemetry Data (2023) (video): “power bi; telemetry; application insights; data connection”
• Get Low-Friction Go-Lives and Optimize Your Investments with Telemetry Data (video): “telemetry data usage analytics power bi reporting go-live optimization”

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