Generate App insights reports

Some features in this article require Microsoft SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management

App insights is a SharePoint Advanced Management feature that lets IT administrators gain insights on the various non-Microsoft applications registered to your Microsoft Entra admin center and how they access your SharePoint content. This report can help you maintain and protect the integrity of your content.

The report is based on the Microsoft audit data logged when a non-Microsoft application accesses content through the following set of events:

• FileAccessed
• FileDownloaded
• FileModified
• FileUploaded

Prerequisites

This feature requires Microsoft SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management license.

App insights reports in SharePoint admin center

Create report

1. Sign in to SharePoint admin center with your SharePoint admin credentials.

2. In the left pane, expand Reports and then select App insights.

3. Once on the App insights landing page, select Add a report to generate a new report.

   Under Report range, you can specify and filter data from a respective time frame for your report.

4. Select Add and run.

Manage reports in SharePoint admin center

View report status

To check if a report is ready or when it was last updated, see the Status column. When a report is ready, select it to view the data.

You're able to see the top 100 (by request volume) results on the screen.

You can also filter by App name, App permissions, and Site sensitivity to view relevant results form the top 100 rows.

Delete report

To delete a report, select the existing report you want to delete and select Delete report.

Rerun a report

To get updated data for a given report range, select an existing report and select Run.

App insights reports in SharePoint PowerShell Module

You can generate and manage App insights reports using SharePoint Online Management Shell.

1. Download and install the latest version of SharePoint Online Management Shell.
2. Connect to SharePoint Online as a SharePoint Administrator in Microsoft 365. For more information about SharePoint Online Management Shell, see Getting started with SharePoint Online Management Shell.
3. Ensure you have the SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management license.

PowerShell commands for App insights reports

To perform the necessary operations, use the following commands:

Create a one-day default duration report

To generate report for the default duration of one day, run the following command:

Start-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport

Create report for any other duration

To generate report for any other duration, run the following command:

Start-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport -ReportPeriodInDays $ReportPeriodInDays (possible values = 1, 7, 14, 28) 

Check status of all active and available reports

To check status of all active and available reports, run the following command:

Get-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport

Check status of a specific report

To check status of a specific report, run the following command:

Get-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport -reportID $reportID (for the given report ID)

View a specific report

To view a specific report, run the following command:

Get-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport -reportID $reportID

Download a report

To download the report, run the following command:

Get-SPOEnterpriseAppInsightsReport -reportID $reportID -action download

Known experiences

• In new tenants, it can take a few days for data to be available and for these reports to be generated successfully. In large tenants, the data can be delayed by up to 48 hours (about two days).
• A report can be rerun only after 24 hours since the last report generation.
• There can only be one report for each value of Report range. This means that you can see a maximum of four reports in the Enterprise Application Insights homepage.
• These reports are powered by Audit data and don't include all audit events.
• You might see App ID of a non-Microsoft app, but App name of a middle-tier app in some cases.