Telemetry

In Dynamics 365 Business Central’s October 2018 release, major version 15.x, Microsoft implemented a framework to send diagnostic traces (signals) asynchronously emitted by the platform and the application. Signals are collected in external repositories in the Azure Monitor collector called Application Insights. The collection of all signals is typically referred to as telemetry.

Initially, telemetry was implemented solely for the purposes of reactively troubleshooting cloud issues arising from the application or the platform. Release after release, Microsoft has added a lot of new signals or improved existing ones to collect all the information needed to:

• Proactively understand how an application is used and how it is performing (also known as observability).
• Reactively review platform and/or application execution data to determine the root cause of specific issues or performance bottlenecks.

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