Use Microsoft Intune workbooks and dashboards

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Raw logs and lists of devices are difficult to interpret at a glance. To effectively monitor your endpoint environment and communicate its health to leadership, you need visual, interactive data. Microsoft Intune offers two primary ways to visualize operational data: the built-in Intune admin center dashboard and Azure Monitor Workbooks.

Intune admin center dashboard widgets

When you first log into the Microsoft Intune admin center, the Home page acts as your personal dashboard. You can customize this canvas to show the exact metrics you care about most on a daily basis.

Customize your view

Select Edit at the top of the Home page to add, remove, or rearrange widgets.

Common dashboard widgets

  • Device assignment status: Shows the overall success, error, or conflict rate of your deployed configuration profiles.
  • App installation status: Provides a quick visual summary of whether your required applications are successfully installing across the fleet.
  • Device compliance: Displays a donut chart categorizing your devices into Compliant, Non-compliant, or In-grace period states.

Note

The Intune admin center dashboard is bound to your specific administrative profile. You can't currently share your personalized dashboard layout with another Intune admin or a non-IT stakeholder. For shared visibility, you must use Azure Monitor Workbooks or Power BI.

Azure Monitor Workbooks for Intune

For advanced, customizable, and sharable reporting, Intune integrates directly with Azure Monitor Workbooks. Workbooks provide a flexible canvas that combines text, Kusto Query Language (KQL) log queries, and rich visual charts into unified, interactive reports.

Prerequisite: To use workbooks, you must first configure Intune Diagnostic Settings to route your logs to an Azure Log Analytics workspace.

Examples of workbook templates

You can build workbooks from scratch, but Microsoft and the Intune community provide excellent templates to get you started:

  • Windows Update for Business reports: This is a pre-built, highly detailed workbook template provided by Microsoft. It visualizes exactly which devices are missing security patches, which are blocked by safeguard holds, and the overall update velocity of your fleet.
  • Intune Enrollment Activity: You can create a workbook that queries your operational logs to visualize enrollment successes and failures over time, helping you spot onboarding bottlenecks.
  • Community Workbooks: The IT community has published numerous templates that track everything from local admin password rotations to detailed application installation histories across your tenant.

Share dashboards with stakeholders

Unlike personal Intune admin center dashboards, Azure Monitor Workbooks are Azure resources you can securely share with other teams, management, or security auditors.

How to share a workbook

  1. Save the workbook: After you customize your workbook in Azure, save it to a specific resource group.
  2. Assign permissions: Stakeholders don't need full Intune Administrator rights to view a workbook. Instead, assign them the Log Analytics Reader role via Azure RBAC on the resource group or workspace containing the data.
  3. Share the link: Open the workbook and select the Share button. You can send this direct Azure portal link to your stakeholders. When they select it, they see the live, interactive data without having access to make administrative changes to Intune policies.

Use the Power BI app

If your stakeholders prefer not to log into the Azure portal, you can export your Intune log data or connect a Power BI dashboard directly to your Log Analytics workspace. You can publish executive-level reports directly to their Microsoft 365 environment.