Table of contents
1.
Introduction
2.
Power Apps Activity logging
2.1.
What events are audited
2.2.
Base schema
2.3.
Review your audit
3.
Frequently Asked Questions
3.1.
What are PowerApps used for?
3.2.
Can I use PowerApps for personal use?
3.3.
What are Power Apps?
3.4.
What is activity logging?
4.
Conclusion
Last Updated: Mar 27, 2024

Power Apps Activity logging

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Introduction

Power Apps is a collection of apps, services, connectors, and a data platform that offers a rapid app development environment for your company's needs. Keeping a record of everything is a good thing as it helps you to find what exactly is causing the problem if anything goes wrong.

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This blog will show you how you can check the logs of all of your activities on PowerApps.

So let’s get started.

Power Apps Activity logging

Everything you do on power apps is kept as a record in log files. You can follow the steps below to access these logs.
 

  1. As an administrator, log in to Security & Compliance Center.
     
  2. From the left navigation pane. Select search and then Audit log search.
     

Audit log search

Source: Microsoft Docs 

 

An administrator can filter for particular activities by bringing down the Activities dropdown after reaching the Audit log search screen. A segment of the list specific to Microsoft Power Apps activities can be seen by scrolling down.

What events are audited

Since logging occurs at the SDK layer, a single action may result in many events that are logged. These user events are the ones you may audit.

Audited events table

Base schema

The Power Apps fields that are forwarded to the Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Center are determined by schemas. While certain fields are exclusive to Power Apps, others are shared by all programmes that provide audit data to Microsoft 365. The common fields are included in the Base schema.

Base Schema Table

Review your audit

Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Center we can review our audit data. To review your audit go to https://protection.office.com/ after that go to Search & investigation, then Audit log search and finally select the Power Apps app activities tab.

Audit log search

Source: Microsoft Docs

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What are PowerApps used for?

With the use of Power Apps, users can create apps and forms for both mobile and web platforms with little to no coding. The apps that are enabled by it can communicate with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem's data sources and services.
 

Can I use PowerApps for personal use?

You can use the free development environment provided by the PowerApps Community plan for personal usage.
 

What are Power Apps?

Power Apps is a collection of apps, services, connectors, and a data platform that offers a rapid app development environment for your company's needs.
 

What is activity logging?

Activity logging refers to keeping a record of every activity you do on the app. For example, when user logs in, when the user logs out, and many more activities all of them gets recorded in some way.

Conclusion

In this article, we have extensively discussed the Power apps activity logging. We hope this blog has helped you enhance your knowledge about the Power Apps activity logging and if you would like to learn more. Check out our blogs related to the above topic: Microsoft AzureIntroduction to Microsoft Azure ServicesIntroduction to Microsoft AzurePowerShell support for Power Apps, and many more on our website.
 

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