What's new in Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry - December 2023
Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. I help ERP customers in the SMB space run their business.
It is December and it has been a month since the last newsletter. It’s been quiet month in the product group where we reflected on feedback from the Directions EMEA 2023 conference and are slowly starting the work on the 2024 release wave 1.
The bleeding edge news on Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry used to happen on Twitter/X, but I am not sure about the future of this platform, so will stay there for a bit, but I am not very active there at the moment.
The intention of these monthly newsletters is to try to gather everything that I know and learn about this area and present it here. Let’s go…
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In the December 2023 edition, read about these things:
Power BI Usage apps – December updates
The December 2023 updates for both apps are not bringing revolutionary changes, but maybe the few things that did happen are just what can help you be more productive with telemetry.
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Environment Usage app (for VARs)
Error report
New page on PTE upload validation diagnostics. Let’s you track any compilation error that happened during the validation of an uploaded Per-Tenant Extensions to the environment from the Extension Management page in the client.
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Administration report
New page Retention policy changes. Let’s you track any changes to retention policies.
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New page on PTE upload validations. Let’s you track any attempt to upload Per-Tenant Extensions to the environment from the Extension Management page in the client.
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App Usage app (for ISVs)
A single thing happened: I added new parameter "Include only these AppIds". This allows you to filter the report dataset (at refresh time) to only include certain apps. Makes it easier to have apps per development team.
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New signal/updates
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Coming soon/in the works (no ETA given)
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Business Events lifecycle events (coming in 23.x).
Early KQL samples is available now. Check them out here: https://github.com/microsoft/BCTech/blob/master/samples/AppInsights/KQL/Queries/ExampleQueriesForEachArea/BusinessEvents.kql
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?Onboarding telemetry: format data of date dimensions.
Documentation updates
Nothing to mention this time.
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Tips and tricks
Powerpoint decks for you to present on telemetry
I was asked by someone at Directions EMEA 2023 if they could get a copy of the BCLE deck for "What’s new in Telemetry". In case others can use it for any presentation (internal or external event), a cleaned-up version is now available here:
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In case that you missed it, the BCTech repo has many more Powerpoint decks on this topic, e.g.
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Check out BCTech to see if there is a deck that resonates with you:
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Blog posts and videos
D365 Senior Solution Architect José Miguel Azevedo blogged on how to alert on job queue failures with Power Automate: https://maique00.wixsite.com/blog/post/automatic-alerts-when-bc-job-queue-fails-low-code
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Microsoft MVP Eric Wauters aka Waldo blogged about telemetry cost and how to use Power BI metrics to monitor this:
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see also this part of the telemetry documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/telemetry-control-cost
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Microsoft MCT and performance specialist Duilio Tacconi blogged about how to solve a performance issue with APIs using telemetry:
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Microsoft MVP Stefano Demiliani blogged about how to automate setting up telemetry and on telemetry cost: https://demiliani.com/2023/11/20/dynamics-365-business-central-automate-the-telemetry-setup/
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The recording of the BCLE video What’s new in telemetry session is now available from the official Business Central YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIHz0zrgWU
The video has chapters to make it easy to consume 5-10 minutes of content when you have a break.
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Did you know that the BCTech repo has pages with links to blog posts and videos on telemetry?
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If you create blog posts/videos on telemetry (or know of things that are not linked from these two pages), feel free to do a pull request to the repository (or send me an email/message).
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That's it for the December newsletter. If you made it all the way down here, then you are truly a Telemetry Hero. See you in a month.
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All earlier posts are also available from there.
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PS. Would love to hear your experiences on using alerts to be more proactive. Reach out (or blog about your experiences.)
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PPS. It is not too late to rate the Power BI apps on Appsource ?? Your feedback matters (a lot).
Do it here:
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