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Analyzing Permission Error Trace Telemetry

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APPLIES TO: Business Central 2022 release wave 1 and later

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When a user gets an error dialog about lack of permissions while working in Business Central, a telemetry signal is emitted. This signal can be logged in an Application Insights resource.

This telemetry data let's you identify and analyze permission problems that users may experience in Business Central.

Permission Error Shown

Occurs when a user gets a permissions-related error message in Business Central when they try to do an operation in the application.

General dimensions

Dimension Description or value
message Permission error shown
severityLevel 1
user_Id The user telemetry ID for the user. From the user card, you can use user_Id to identify the user who triggered this telemetry event. For more information, see Assign a telemetry ID to users.

Custom dimensions

Dimension Description or value
eventId RT0031
aadTenantId The Microsoft Entra tenant ID that's used for Microsoft Entra authentication. For on-premises, if you aren't using Microsoft Entra authentication, this value is common.
alObjectId If there's no value or the value is 0, then the permission error wasn't related to a specific object, which typically happens when permissionArea is something other than Object.
alObjectType The type of the AL object that the user was trying to access, like a table or page.
clientType The type of client that executed the SQL Statement, such as Background or Web. For a list of the client types, see ClientType Option Type.
companyName The display name of the Business Central company that was used at time of execution
component Dynamics 365 Business Central Server
componentVersion The version number of the component that emits telemetry (see the component dimension)
environmentName The name of the tenant environment. See Managing Environments. This dimension isn't included for Business Central on-premises environments.
environmentType The environment type for the tenant, such as Production, Sandbox, Trial. See Environment Types
permissionArea The area that the permission error is related to. Possible values include: System, Entitlement, Company, Object.
permissionType The permission that the operation requires, but the user lacks. Possible values: Delete, Execute, Insert, Modify, Read, Undefined
telemetrySchemaVersion The version of the Business Central telemetry schema.

See also

Upgrading Extensions
Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry
Enable Sending Telemetry to Application Insights