Endpoint Analytics Reboot Frequencies

Question

Management’s asking for a report that shows which employees leave their machines running for weeks without rebooting, since that’s causing sluggish performance. Where in the Endpoint Analytics dashboard can we check device restart frequency and see how uptime ties directly to blue screen events ?

Answer 1

You can find this information in Endpoint Analytics, but it is split across different reports rather than a single unified view.

1. Restart Frequency (Uptime Insight)

Go to:

Intune Admin Center → Reports → Endpoint Analytics → Startup performance

Here you’ll find the “Restart frequency” metric, which shows how often devices are rebooted.

Devices with very low restart frequency typically indicate long uptime (users not rebooting for weeks).

2. Correlating with Stability (BSOD / Crashes)

To analyze blue screen events and instability:

Go to:

Reports → Endpoint Analytics → Reliability

This report includes:

• Stop errors (BSOD events)
• Application crashes
• Device reliability scores

3. How to Tie Them Together

There is no direct built-in dashboard that correlates restart frequency with BSODs automatically.

However, you can:

• Export data from both Startup performance and Reliability reports
• Use Device Name or Azure AD Device ID to correlate
• Identify patterns (e.g., long uptime devices showing higher crash frequency)

4. Additional Tip (Proactive Approach)

You can combine this with:

• Windows Update policies (to enforce restarts)
• Proactive remediations in Intune (to alert or force reboot after certain uptime)

Summary:

Use Startup performance for restart frequency and Reliability for BSOD data, then correlate them externally (export or reporting tools) to identify devices with long uptime contributing to instability.

Answer 2

Hello,

In Endpoint Analytics you’ll find exactly what management is asking for under the Startup performance and Reliability reports. The “Startup performance” blade includes the Restart frequency metric, which shows how often devices are rebooted. This is calculated from telemetry on device uptime and restart events, so you can quickly identify machines that have been running continuously for weeks without a reboot.

To correlate this with stability issues such as blue screens, you need to look at the Reliability report. There you’ll see crash frequency, stop error events, and app failures. Devices with long uptimes and rare restarts often show higher counts of stop errors because kernel drivers and memory leaks accumulate over time. By pivoting on the device ID, you can directly tie restart frequency to BSOD events.

The best practice is to export both datasets from Endpoint Analytics and cross‑reference them. In Intune, go to Reports → Endpoint Analytics → Startup performance → Restart frequency, then compare against Reports → Endpoint Analytics → Reliability → Stop error events. This gives you a clear view of which employees are leaving machines running for weeks, and how that correlates with degraded performance and crash incidents.

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Domic Vo