Gain insights into your app users’ activity

Applies to: Workforce tenants External tenants (learn more)

The Application user activity feature under Usage & insights provides data analytics on user activity and engagement for registered applications in your tenant. You can use this feature to view, query, and analyze user activity data in the Microsoft Entra admin center. This can help you uncover valuable insights that can aid strategic decisions and drive business growth.

Tip

To try out this feature, go to the Woodgrove Groceries demo and start the “Application user activity” use case.

Supported scenarios

You can use the user insights feature for the following scenarios:

• Tracking active users - You want to determine the total number of active users in your tenant. This can help you assess the overall user engagement with your applications.
• Monitoring new users added - You want to track and identify how many users have been added to your tenant in the last month. This data is valuable for monitoring the growth of your user base.
• Analyzing daily and monthly application sign-ins - You want to gather data on the number of users who sign in to your applications on a daily and monthly basis. This can help you gauge user engagement over time and spot trends.
• Assessing MFA usage success and failure - You want to compare the multifactor authentication (MFA) usage success and failure rates for your applications. This can provide insights into the security and user experience of your authentication processes.

Prerequisites

To access and view data from application user activity, you must have:

• A Microsoft Entra ID for customers tenant.
• A registered application(s) with some sign-in and sign-up data.

How to access the Application user activity dashboards

The Application user activity dashboards provide insights into how users interact with your apps. You can access them from the **Application user activity ** menu.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Reports Reader.

2. If you have access to multiple tenants, use the Settings icon in the top menu to switch to the external tenant you created earlier from the Directories + subscriptions menu.

3. Browse to Identity > Monitoring & health > Usage & insights

4. Select **Application user activity ** to view the dashboards.

   

Browse the available dashboards

There are three dashboards available with data centered around users, requests, and authentications. Each dashboard provides a summary of activities in applications with one or more sign-in attempts. The dashboards display activity data during the selected time range.

Users dashboard

The Users dashboard gives you a summary of daily and monthly active users, and new users that have been added to your tenant. For this dataset, you'll be able to view the following trends:

• Daily active and inactive users over a period of 30 days.

• Monthly active users over a period of 12 months

• Monthly active users comparison by application.

• New users added over a period of 12 months.

• New users breakdown by operating system.

  

Requests dashboard

The Requests dashboard gives you a summary of monthly requests for all your applications. For this dataset, you'll be able to view the following trends:

• Monthly requests over a period of 12 months.

• Types of MFA usage with a summary of success vs failure count over a period of 12 months

  

Authentications dashboard

The Authentications dashboard gives you a summary of daily and monthly authentications in your tenant. For this dataset, you'll be able to view the following trends

• Daily authentications over a period of 30 days.

• Daily authentications breakdown by operating system.

• Monthly authentications over a period of 12 months summarized by location.

  

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