Available telemetry
In Application Insights, telemetry from Business Central is logged into the traces or pageview tables.
Telemetry by area
Currently, Business Central offers telemetry on the following operations:
Area | Description | Online | On-premises | Extension support | More information |
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AppSource Submission Validation | Provides information about validation when an extension is submitted to AppSource. | See... | |||
App key vault secrets | Provides information about the retrieval of secrets from Azure Key Vaults by extensions. | [1] | [1] | See... | |
Authorization | Provides information about user sign-in attempts. Information includes success or failure indication, reason for failure, user type, and more. | See... | |||
Azure Function Integration[6] | Provides information about requests to Azure Functions from Business Central | See... | |||
Changelog configuration changes[9] | Provides information about changes to the configuration of the change log. | See... | |||
Client actions[7] | Provides information about usage of client features. | See... | |||
Cloud migration[8] | Provides information about cloud migration setup, replication runs, and data upgrade | See... | |||
Company lifecycle | Provides information about creating, copying, and deleting of companies. | See... | |||
Configuration package lifecycle | Provides information about operations done on configuration packages, including exporting, importing, applying, and deleting. | See... | |||
Database deadlocks[5] | Provides information about database deadlocks that occur. | See... | |||
Database lock timeouts | Provides information about database locks that have timed out. | See... | |||
Database wait statistics | Provides information about the wait categories and the wait times a query runs into. | See... | |||
Provides information about the success or failure of sending emails. | See... | ||||
Environment lifecycle [5] | Provides information about changes and operations on an environment, like updates, hotfixes, copy, move, delete, configuration changes, and more. | See... | |||
Environment validation [7] | Provides information about proactive validattions on extensions in the environment against the next release. | See... | |||
Error message quality[5] | Provides information about error messages that users thought were helpful or unhelpful. | See... | |||
Error method | Provides information about error dialogs that are shown to the users. | See... | |||
Extension lifecycle [2] | Provides information about the success or failure of extension-related operations, like publishing, synchronizing, installing, and more. | See... | |||
Extension update | Provides information about errors that occur and upgrade tags used when upgrading an extension. | See... | |||
Extension Upload Validation[9] | Provides information about validations when a user/administrator uploads a per-tenant extension to an environment from the Extension Management page. | See... | |||
Feature Management[7] | Provides information about the state changes done on the Feature Management page. | See... | |||
Feature telemetry | Provides information about the usage and errors of features. | See... | |||
Field monitoring trace | Provides information about the usage of the field monitoring feature. | See... | |||
Job queue | Provides information about creating and running job queue entries. | See... | |||
Long running AL method trace[3] | Provides information about long running AL methods. | See... | |||
Long running operation (SQL query) | Provides information about SQL queries that take longer than expected to execute. | See... | |||
Onboarding[7] | Provides information about the onboarding of users. | See... | |||
Page views | Provides information about the pages that users open in the modern client. | [6] | [4] | See... | |
Performance Toolkit (BCPT) | Provides information about test results from running the Business Central Performance Toolkit (BCPT). | See... | |||
Permissions | Provides information about adding, removing, and assigning permission sets. | See... | |||
Permissions dependency cycle[5] | Provides information about dependency cycles in permissions. | See... | |||
Permission error[5] | Provides information about errors related to permissions that users get. | See... | |||
Profile configuration lifecycle[6] | Provides information about design operations done on profiles from the client. | See... | |||
Report generation | Provides information about the execution of reports. | See... | |||
Retention policy trace[3] | Provides information about the usage of the retention policy feature. | See... | |||
Stopped sessions[5] | Provides information about background sessions that were forcibly stopped from the admin center or by calling the StopSession method from AL. | See... | |||
Table index trace[3] | Provides information about the addition or removal of a table index. | See... | |||
Task scheduler lifecycle | Provides information the execution of scheduled tasks. | See... | |||
User checklists[5] | Provides information about when the status of a user checklist changes | See... | |||
Verbose logging enabled/disabled[5] | Provides information about when additional logging is enabled and disabled from the client. | See... | |||
Web service access key authentication | Provides information about the authentication of web server access keys on web service requests. | See... | |||
Web service publish failures[8] | Provides information about the web services publish failures. | See... | |||
Web service requests (incoming) | Provides information about the execution time of incoming web service requests. | See... | |||
Web service requests (outgoing ) | Provides information about the execution time of outgoing web service requests. | See... |
1This signal is only emitted to the Application Insights resource that's specified in the extension.
2Introduced in Business Central 2020 release wave 1, version 16.3. For extension telemetry, this signal was introduced in 2020 release wave 2, version 17.1.
3Introduced in Business Central 2020 release wave 1, version 17.1. For extension telemetry, this signal was introduced in 2021 release wave 1, version 18.1.
4Introduced in Business Central 2021 release wave 1, version 18.
5Introduced in Business Central 2022 release wave 1, version 20.
6Introduced in Business Central 2022 release wave 2, version 21.
7Introduced in Business Central 2023 release wave 1, version 22.
8Introduced in Business Central 2023 release wave 1, version 22.1.
9Introduced in Business Central 2023 release wave 2, version 23.
Telemetry by Event Id
The following tables list the Ids of Business Central telemetry events that are emitted into Azure Application Insights.
Application events
Client events
Event ID | Area | Message |
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CL0001 | Page views | Page opened: {alObjectName} |
CL0002 | Error message quality | User gave feedback on error message: [OK|Not OK] |
CL0003 | Client action | Client action invoked: {Action} |
Lifecycle events
Runtime events
See also
Telemetry Event IDs
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