Telemetry by area

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Overview

This section documents the telemetry Business Central emits to Application Insights, organized by functional area. Each page covers one area, for example job queues, extension lifecycle, database locks, web service requests, permissions, report generation, environment lifecycle or Marketplace validation. The pages describe the events, their event IDs where given, the custom dimensions, and often KQL samples for analysis and alerts.

The areas group loosely into: performance and database (SQL query traces, long running operations, wait statistics, deadlocks, lock timeouts), extension and app lifecycle (publishing, updates, upload and Marketplace validation), security and audit (permission changes, field monitoring, changelog, authorization), integration (web service requests, outgoing requests, Azure Functions, email), and newer AI areas (agent lifecycle, MCP configuration, MCP tool calls, AI consumption).

Start with the Telemetry area overview page, which lists the available areas and where they are logged (traces or pageViews tables). Then open the page for your area and check its version notes, since many areas apply only from a given release wave or version.

Key points

• The Telemetry area overview page lists all areas and whether they log to the traces or pageViews table in Application Insights.
• Performance areas include SQL query trace (RT0009), long running AL methods (RT0018), long running SQL queries (over 750 ms), wait statistics, deadlocks (RT0028) and lock timeouts (RT0012, RT0013).
• Deadlock and lock timeout telemetry depend on monitoring settings such as EnableDeadlockMonitoring and EnableLockTimeoutMonitoring.
• Error and permission areas include the Error method trace (RT0030) and permission error trace (RT0031), with alStackTrace and error message dimensions.
• AI-related areas include agent lifecycle (LC0066, LC0067, LC0068), MCP configuration, MCP tool calls (RT0054) and AI consumption of Copilot Credits (RT0055), mostly from 2026 release wave 1 (version 28.0).
• Lifecycle areas cover environments, companies, extensions, configuration packages, job queues, task scheduler, profiles, report layouts, financial reports and retention policies.
• Developers can log custom telemetry with the Feature telemetry codeunit (LogUsage, LogError, LogUptake).
• Partner-facing validation telemetry covers environment validation, extension upload (PTE) validation, Marketplace submission validation and AppSource breaking changes validation.

Learn pages

• Analyze Agent Lifecycle Telemetry: Learn how to analyze Business Central agent lifecycle telemetry for agent creation, configuration changes, state changes, and task activity.
• Analyze API metadata validation telemetry: Learn about the API metadata validation telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze app resource exposure policy telemetry: Learn about app resource exposure policy telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze business events telemetry: Learn about business events telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze Configuration Package Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for configuration package telemetry for Azure Application Insights.
• Analyze email trace telemetry: Learn about the email telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze MCP configuration telemetry: Learn about the MCP (Model Context Protocol) configuration telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze MCP Server Tool Calls Telemetry: Learn about the MCP Server telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze Open in Excel telemetry: Learn about the Open in Excel telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze SQL query trace telemetry: Learn about SQL query trace telemetry in Business Central
• Analyze table index trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for changes made to table indexes
• Analyzing AI Consumption Trace Telemetry: Learn about the AI Consumption telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing Changelog Configuration Changes Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for monitoring changes to changelog configuration in Business Central
• Analyzing client action telemetry: Learn about the telemetry from client action in Business Central
• Analyzing client control add-in exception telemetry: Learn about the telemetry from client add-in exceptions in Business Central
• Analyzing Cloud migration trace telemetry: Learn about cloud migration telemetry for Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Analyzing Database Wait Statistics Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for database wait statics for Business Central in Azure Application Insights.
• Analyzing Environment Lifecycle Trace Telemetry: Learn about the environment lifecycle telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing environment validation telemetry: Learn about the environment validation telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing Error Message Vote Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about error message vote telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing Extension Upload Validation Telemetry: Learn about the extension upload validation telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing Field Monitoring Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for monitoring changes to sensitive data in Business Central
• Analyzing financial report lifecycle trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for financial report lifecycle telemetry in Azure Application Insights.
• Analyzing financial report usage trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for financial report usage telemetry in Azure Application Insights.
• Analyzing Job Queue Lifecycle Trace Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for job queue entries in Business Central
• Analyzing Long Running AL Methods Telemetry: Learn about analyzing long running AL methods in Business Central.
• Analyzing Long Running Operation (SQL Query) Telemetry: Learn about analyzing long running operation (SQL Query) in Business Central.
• Analyzing Marketplace app breaking changes validation telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for breaking changes validation of Marketplace apps in Business Central.
• Analyzing Marketplace submission validation trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for publishing apps to Marketplace from Partner Center.
• Analyzing metadata embeddings telemetry: Learn about the metadata embeddings telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing onboarding telemetry: Learn about the onboarding telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing Performance Toolkit Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for the Performance Toolkit in Business Central
• Analyzing Permission Changes Trace Telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for permission changes made in Business Central
• Analyzing permission dependency cycle trace telemetry: Learn about the permission dependency cycle trace telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing Permission Error Trace Telemetry: Learn about the permission error telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing profile configuration lifecycle telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for configuration profiles using the in-client designer.
• Analyzing report layout lifecycle telemetry: Learn about report layout lifecycle telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing retention policy trace telemetry: Learn about the telemetry for retention policies in Business Central
• Analyzing Stopped Session Telemetry: Learn about analyzing stop session telemetry in Business Central.
• Analyzing Task Scheduler Telemetry: Learn about the task scheduler telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing Verbose Enable and Disable Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the verbose logging telemetry in Business Central
• Analyzing Web Service Access Key Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the web service access key telemetry in Business Central
• App Key Vault Secret Trace Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about app key vault secret trace telemetry in Business Central
• Authorization Trace | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the Authorization telemetry in Business Central
• Azure Function Integration Telemetry: Learn about telemetry on Azure Function integrations with Business Central
• Company lifecycle trace | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the company lifecycle telemetry in Business Central
• Database Deadlock Lock Trace Telemetry: Learn about the database deadlock telemetry in Business Central
• Database Lock Timeout Trace Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the database lock timeout telemetry in Business Central
• Error method trace telemetry: Learn about the Error method telemetry in Business Central
• Extension Lifecycle Trace Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the extension lifecycle telemetry in Business Central
• Extension Update Trace Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the extension upgrade telemetry in Business Central
• Feature management telemetry: Learn about the telemetry that is emitted from the Feature Management page in Business Central.
• Feature telemetry: Learn about the telemetry that you can emit from features in Business Central.
• Outgoing Web Service Request Trace: Learn about the outgoing web service request telemetry in Business Central
• Page View Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the page views telemetry in Business Central
• Report Generation Telemetry: Learn about the report telemetry in Business Central.
• Server certificate validation errors for outgoing web service requests: Learn about telemetry for server certificate validation errors for outgoing web service requests in Business Central
• Telemetry area overview: Get an overview of available telemetry areas in Business Central
• User Checklist Trace Telemetry | Microsoft Docs: Learn about the user checklist telemetry in Business Central
• Web Service Publish Failure Trace: Learn about the web service publish failure telemetry in Business Central
• Web Service Request Trace: Learn about the web service request telemetry in Business Central

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