Slides of my session at the Microsoft 365 Philly event where I talked about the different options we have for Data Analytics and also to monitor our Power Apps and Power Automate Flows. In the session I covered not only out of the box features, but also integration with Azure Application Insights and how to build a custom Data Analytics solution.

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4. Analytics in Power Platform: Possibilities
Out of the box
Analytics in Power
Platform at different
levels
Standard Power
Platform Audit
Events in the M365
Audit Log
Power Apps
monitoring with
Azure Application
Insights
Custom Monitoring,
Auditing and
Telemetry + CoE
Starter Kit features

5. Analytics in Power Apps: Possibilities
Tenant Level Analytics
Environment Analytics
Single App Analytics

6. Analytics in Power Apps: Tenant level analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin (Only
can see analytics of his/her environments) |Power
Platform Admin | Dynamics 365 Admin | Microsoft
365 Global Admin
• Available for Canvas & Model-Driven Apps
• Initial consent is required to enable it
• Visualization of global data analytics for all the
environments in the tenant:
 Usage: Unique users | Total sessions | Apps
users | Top Apps
 Makers’ activity: Active apps | Published apps |
Active makers | New makers | Top makers |
Environments | Activity per application
 Apps Inventory
• It’s possible to download analytics data to create
custom analytics reports

7. Analytics in Power Apps: Tenant level analytics

8. Analytics in Power Apps: Environment level analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin |
Power Platform Admin | Dynamics 365 Admin |
Microsoft 365 Global Admin
• Available for Canvas Apps & Model-Driven Apps
• Initial consent is required to enable it
• Visualization of Power Apps data analytics for an
existing environment:
 Usage | Location | Toast Errors | Service
Performance | Connectors usage
• Data visualization window: 28 days
• Data refresh cycle: every 3 hours

9. Analytics in Power Apps: Environment level analytics

10. Analytics in Power Apps: App level analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin |
Power App Owner
• Available for Canvas Apps
• Visualization of the following Analytics Data for an
App:
 Usage | Performance | Location
• Data visualization window: 30 days
• Data refresh cycle: every 24 hours

11. Analytics in Power Apps: Dataverse analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin |
Power Platform Admin | Dynamics 365 Admin |
Microsoft 365 Global Admin
• Visualization of the following Analytics Data for the
Dataverse:
 Active users | Mode of access | Entity usage |
System jobs | Plug-ins | API calls statistics |
Mailbox usage
• Data visualization window: 30 days
• It’s possible to download analytics data to create
custom analytics reports

12. Demo #1: Analytics in Power
Apps

13. Analytics in Power Automate: Possibilities
Tenant Level Analytics
Environment Analytics
Single Power Automate Analytics

14. Analytics in Power Automate: Tenant level analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin (Only
can see analytics of his/her environments) |
Microsoft 365 Global Admin
• Available for Power Automate Cloud Flows
• Initial consent is required to enable it
• Visualization of global data analytics for all the
environments in the tenant:
 Usage: Total flows | Total runs | Successful runs
| Failed runs | etc
 Makers’ activity: Active flows | Created flows |
Active makers | Connections | etc
 Flows inventory
• It’s possible to download analytics data to create
custom analytics reports

15. Analytics in Power Automate: Environment level
analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin |
Power Platform Admin | Dynamics 365 Admin |
Microsoft 365 Global Admin
• Available for Cloud flows & Desktop flows
• Initial consent is required to enable it
• Visualization of Power Automate data analytics for
an existing environment:
 Flows runs | Flows usage | Flows created | Erros
in flows | Shared flows | Connectors used in
flows
• Data visualization window: 28 days
• Data refresh cycle: every 3 hours

16. Analytics in Power Automate: Environment level
analytics

17. Analytics in Power Automate: Flow level analytics
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Admin | Flow
Owner
• Available for Cloud flows
• Visualization of the following Analytics Data for an
App:
 Actions | Usage | Errors
• Data visualization window: 30 days
• Data refresh cycle: every 24 hours

18. Analytics in Power Automate: Process Insights
Main Features
• Required Roles to access: Environment Maker
• Available for Cloud flows
• It allows to gain insights on Cloud flows by using
process mining techniques
• Visualization of flow’s performance, identification of
bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
• Process insights visualization window: 30 days

19. Analytics in Power Automate: Runs history

20. Demo #2: Analytics in Power
Automate

21. Power Platform inventory and data usage export
Main Features & Requirements
• Required Roles to access: Power Platform Admin |
Dynamics 365 Admin | Microsoft 365 Global Admin
Currently in preview, it allows to create custom
Analytics by making an export of Power Platform
inventory and data usage to an Azure Data Lake
• Requirements:
 Enable Analytics at the tenant level
 Power Apps premium licensing
 An Azure substruction and a Resources group
 A storage account to be used with Azure Data
Lake Gen 2
 Power BI Pro to consume the data exported to
the Data Lake

22. Audit Log Search: Power Platform standard telemetry
data

23. Audit Log Search: Power Platform standard telemetry
data
Main Features & Requirements
• Required Roles to access: Microsoft 365 Global
Admin | Security Admin | Global Reader Admin |
Security Reader Admin (View-Only Logs or EXO
Audit Logs)
• Both Power Apps (Canvas, Model-Driven) and Power
Automate Flows events are captured and audited
• Telemetry data is retained for the las 90 days (de-
facto standard in Microsoft 365) vs 1 year (E5
licensing required)
• Audit Log data can be exported from the UI or
through PowerShell enabling custom Audit Log
analytics

24. Audit Log Search: Power Platform standard telemetry
data
Power Apps
• Created app
• Launched app
• Marked app as Featured
• Restored app version
• Edited app
• Published app
• Edited app permission
• Deleted app
• Marked app as Hero
• Deleted app permission
Power Automate
• Created flow
• Edited flow
• Deleted flow
• Edited permissions
• Deleted permissions
• Started a paid trial
• Renewed a paid trial
DLP
• Created DLP Policy
• Updated DLP Policy
• Deleted DLP Policy

25. Demo #3: Power Platform
Events in the Audit Log Search

26. Auditing for the Dataverse

27. Auditing for Model-Driven Apps

28. Analytics, Telemetry and Monitoring with Azure
Application Insights
Main Features & Requirements
• It provides Telemetry and Analytics for Canvas Apps,
Model-Driven Apps and Power Pages:
 Details of the users working with the App:
Location | OS used| Browsers used | App
loading performance | …
 Details of users’ sessions in the App
 Events that happens in the App: System
generated vs. custom
 Apps general flow usage: How App users make
use of the App
• Azure Application Insights can be configured App by
App or by doing a global data export

29. Analytics, Telemetry and Monitoring with Azure
Application Insights
Main Features & Requirements
• Requirements:
• An Azure Subscription where Azure Application
Insights can be configured
• Permissions to create an Azure Resource Group
where add and deploy Azure Application
Insights

30. Analytics, Telemetry and Monitoring with Azure
Application Insights

31. Demo #4: Telemetry and
Analytics with Azure
Applications Insights

32. Custom Telemetry & Analytics
Main Features
• It provides Custom Telemetry and Analytics for both
Power Apps and Power Automate:
 Analytics Data captured is also custom
 Data can be stored in Azure Application
Insights or in a SQL Azure DB to simplify the
process of consuming Dara from Power BI
• Requirements:
• An Azure Subscription where Azure Application
Insights can be configured
• Permissions to create an Azure Resource Group
where add and deploy Azure Application
Insights
• Power Platform Premium (a custom connector
that makes a http request will be designed and
implemented)

33. Custom Telemetry & Analytics

34. Custom Telemetry & Analytics

35. Custom Telemetry & Analytics

36. Custom Telemetry & Analytics

37. Summary
• We have several options available to monitor and have Analytics about our Power Apps and Power
Automate Flows: Out of the box Analytics at different levels, Microsoft 365 Audit Log, Azure
Application Insights Integration and “Build yourself”
• Default Data Analytics for Power Apps and Power Automate provides insights about usage patterns as
well as problems we might be facing when using them. Ability to export Analytics data helps on
creating custom usage reports
• Microsoft 365 Audit Log returns telemetry data based on events happening to an App or a Flow
• Azure Application Insights integrated in our Apps/Flows provide a more detailed telemetry about
usage, errors and problem in our Apps and processes
• CoE Starter Kit is a clear example of how we can build our own Analytics
• Finally, we can even go beyond creating a custom connector to implement our own Analytics and
Telemetry

38. Bonus: Quick references
• Admin Analytics for Power Apps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/analytics-
powerapps
• Tenant Level Analytics for Power Apps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
platform/admin/tenant-level-analytics
• Environment Level Analytics for Power Apps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
platform/admin/analytics-powerapps
• Microsoft Dataverse Analytics: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/analytics-
common-data-service
• Tenant Analytics for Power Automate: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
platform/admin/power-automate-analytics-reports

39. Bonus: Quick references
• Anaytics for Flows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/analytics-flow
• Power Apps activity logging: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/logging-
powerapps
• Power Automate activity logging: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/logging-
power-automate
• Microsoft Dataverse Auditing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/manage-
dataverse-auditing
• Power Platform self-service analytics to export Power Platform inventory and usage data:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/self-service-analytics

40. Bonus: Quick references
• Microsoft Dataverse and model-driven apps activity loggin: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
platform/admin/enable-use-comprehensive-auditing
• Power Platform Telemetry and Analytics with Azure Application Insights:
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/overview-integration-application-
insights
 https://barhead.com/telemetry-in-microsoft-power-platform-using-application-insights/
• Exportar datos de Telemetría y Analytics a Azure Application Insights: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/power-platform/admin/set-up-export-application-insights

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