Analyzing Permission Error Trace Telemetry

APPLIES TO: Business Central 2022 release wave 1 and later

Note

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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