What's New: Telemetry (2023 release wave 2)

Overview

The session walks through telemetry additions since May 2023. Performance reporting gets AI assistance on each page, including key influencers, top segments, decomposition trees and a top 10 slowest pages view. Telemetry also adds API queuing time, total and exclusive time and SQL statistics for long running AL, job queue entry descriptions and report performance data.

On the error side, it covers web service troubleshooting guides by HTTP status code, user agent tracking, exceptions with AL call stack, Azure functions and SMTP email telemetry, and job queue retry and non-retriable exception reporting. Later parts cover upcoming signals (change lock lifecycle, pending extensions validation, business events in version 23), onboarding telemetry, the Business Central Usage Analytics Power BI app, KQL walkthroughs at aka.ms/bc-telemetry, and no-code and low-code alerting.

Key points

• Each page of the performance report has AI assistance (summaries, key influencers, top segments, decomposition tree). Summary quality depends on having enough varied data.
• Web service telemetry has HTTP status code filtering, troubleshooting guides and user agent tracking. The calling client must set a user agent for it to show in the Power BI error report.
• From version 22.X, a web service metadata error fails only the affected service calls, not the whole web service stack for the environment.
• SMTP email error telemetry is available from version 22.3. Job queue reports now show non-retriable exceptions and entries that exceeded the maximum retries.
• Upcoming: change lock lifecycle events and pending extensions validation signals, both likely within a few months. The online service will also try to compile pending extensions against the next major version (service only, not on-premises). Business events get telemetry coverage in version 23.
• The free Business Central Usage Analytics app on AppSource needs a Power BI Pro license to consume and refresh. KQL walkthroughs are at aka.ms/bc-telemetry.
• Alerting options: Power BI metrics scorecards with Teams alerts (no code), or KQL conditions with Power Automate or Logic Apps (low code).

Features

Quotes

• 0:39 “talking a little bit about a new data that is coming soon in wave in 20 version 23 or later”
• 0:54 “for performance since the last launch event video for wave one we added ai assisted performance analysis to the”
• 1:14 “what you see here in this session is what ever was released since May 2023”
• 8:19 “when you call business Central because if you do so these user agents will then show up in your powerbi error report on web”
• 9:20 “this was backported so it’s already available in 22.X”
• 9:33 “from version 22.X we will only fail the actual service calls that where there’s a metadata problem”
• 13:35 “lock error function in the feature module uh we now also show you not only the al cold stack but”
• 14:15 “we ship tet whenever it’s ready in the Sur um so there’s no need to postpone to the next major”
• 14:15 “there’s no need to postpone to the next major if something can be uh put in in in a minor update or even a”
• 15:52 “we also in the service not on premises validate um pended extensions on environment against next major so we actually try to compile them”
• 18:15 “the the powerp app on environments is available on appsource it’s called business Central usage analytics um and the counterpart for isvs is the”
• 20:25 “it’s called powerbi metrics you can set up a scorecard you can follow certain metrics you can get alerted in teams no developer is”
• 21:23 “most important thing if you haven’t enabled Cy go do it in deploy an a application resource make sure that you have your cost”
• 22:25 “you can use Telemetry data to get data driven on your pre-sales on your go lives on your operations support and ongoing sales for”

Disclaimers in the video

• 0:39 coming-later: new data that is coming soon in wave in 20 version 23 or later
• 14:35 coming-later: these are Telemetry things that is likely to come within the next few months
• 15:32 coming-later: pended extensions validation signal - likely to come within the next few months
• 16:13 coming-later: pended extensions on environment against next major - service not on premises
• 16:49 coming-later: business events will have coverage with Telemetry for version 23