Monitor page (preview)
[This article is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
The Monitor page allows your organization to measure and improve operational health metrics of resources built or deployed in Power Platform, such as apps. It's available to both makers and admins in their respective experiences, such as make.powerapps.com and admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com. Makers use this data to improve their resources and admins use this data to understand aggregate operational health in the tenant or select environments. Metrics are calculated by aggregating event logs from runtime activity. Recommendations are calculated from:
- Aggregating runtime event logs to highlight a measurable opportunity to improve a health metric
- Static analysis of resource properties that can be altered to improve a health metric
The event logs used to calculate metrics are available for review and download in the Logs page to aid operational health analysis.
Important
- This is a preview feature.
- Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality. These features are subject to supplemental terms of use, and are available before an official release so that customers can get early access and provide feedback.
Prerequisites
- Tenant-level analytics must be turned on for data to be available for monitoring experiences.
- Optional: Managed Environments is required to view monitoring recommendations.
The availability of monitoring health metrics, logs, and recommendations in Power Platform admin center is based on tenant and environment settings.
| Are tenant-level analytics turned on? | Is this a Managed Environment? | Are health metrics available? | Are logs available? | Are recommendations available? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| No | No | No | No | No |
Architecture
Power Platform monitoring experiences require runtime activity to produce health metrics and generate recommendations. Unused resources don't appear in monitoring experiences. Admin experiences are available to Power Platform service and Dynamics 365 admins, who can see monitoring data across the tenant. Makers can only see data for resources for which they have edit privileges to in the runtime environment.
Purpose of the Monitor page
The Monitor page exists to bring attention to resources with degraded operational health and highlight which resources have opportunities for improvement. Since Power Apps are the first resources to appear in the Monitor experience, the cards highlight apps where end users face obstacles accessing an app or they have higher wait times to use the app. As more resources and metrics appear in the Monitor page, this experience will evolve to bring attention to more than apps.
Products
The products view allows you to compare health metrics across a pool of common resources, such as apps, and select a resource to view its health metrics, recommendations, and logs.
See a resource’s health metrics, recommendations, and logs
- Select a product, for example Power Apps.
- Select a specific resource.
- See the details pane with time-series charts for each metric available.
- Optional: If a recommendation is available, select View logs.
For resources available in the monitoring experience, you can learn more about resource-specific metrics in the maker documentation. The following table indicates which resources are available at this time.
| Product | Resource | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Power Apps | Canvas app | Preview - Learn more in Use Monitor to get insights and recommendations for your canvas app. |
| Power Apps | Model-driven apps | Not available yet |
| Power Automate | Cloud flows | Not available yet |
| Power Automate | Desktop flows | Not available yet |
| Dataverse | Dataverse | Not available yet |
| Copilot Studio | Copilot Studio agents | Not available yet |
| Dynamics 365 | Apps | Not available yet |
Monitoring experiences for makers
When tenant-wide analytics is turned on, metrics and logs are available to makers. Makers can only see metrics and logs for which they have edit privileges. Environment-level settings exist to control what analytics information is available to makers. One setting controls whether makers see any analytics data in monitoring experiences including metrics and logs. The second setting controls whether makers see End User Pseudonymous Identifiers (EUPI), like session IDs and user object IDs in event logs.
Turn on the monitoring experiences for makers
The following Power Platform Administrator PowerShell cmdlets may be used to control what monitoring data is available to makers.
Get settings values for maker access to analytics data
Get-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentMakerAnalyticsSettings -EnvironmentName
{environment id}
Turn on maker access to analytics data
This setting doesn't include availability of End User Pseudonymous Identifiers (EUPI) in event logs, such as the session IDs or user object IDs.
Set-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentMakerAnalyticsSettings -EnvironmentName
{environment id} -EnableAnalyticsForMakers $true
Turn on maker access to session IDs and user object IDs in event logs
This setting controls maker access to End User Pseudonymous Identifiers (EUPI) in event logs, such as session IDs or user object IDs, in event logs.
Set-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentMakerAnalyticsSettings -EnvironmentName
{environment id} -EnableEUPIForMakerAnalytics $true
Frequently asked questions
How does Power Platform monitoring coexist with Azure Application Insights?
Power Platform monitoring includes recommendations to improve a metric. Azure Application Insights doesn't auto derive recommendations.
Power Platform monitoring doesn't require Azure subscriptions.
Azure Application Insights contains a superset of runtime event logs:
- Event logs beyond the scope of Power Platform monitoring resource metrics.
- Allows for customer-defined data retention.
- Allows for custom traces, which allows custom events, metrics, and dimensions.
- Allows for correlating and joining event logs across resources emitting data to the same Azure Application Insights instance.
Why do makers in my organizations see an experience saying settings must be enabled for their monitoring experience?
In addition to the tenant-level analytics setting, the environment setting Analytics data available to Makers must be turned on. Availability of monitoring health metrics, logs, and recommendations in maker monitoring experiences based on tenant and environment settings.
| Are tenant-level analytics turned on? | Is analytics data available to Makers? | Is this a Managed Environment? | Is Operational health metrics available? | Are logs available? | Are recommendations available? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Yes | No | Not applicable | No | No | No |
| No | Not applicable | Not applicable | No | No | No |
Known limitations
- Environment admins can't see monitoring data in the Power Platform admin center.
- Only logs associated with metric recommendations are available.
- Time-based metrics only report out the 75th percentile.
Considerations
- Metrics are aggregated at a point in time, per their aggregation rate. For example, app open success is calculated daily and only has one value per day.
- Event logs in the monitoring experiences are only available for up to seven days.
- Metrics are only available for up to 28 days.