Day: December 5, 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is store cloud flow execution history in Microsoft Dataverse.

You can use your Dataverse instances to build custom, longer-term reports based on the flow execution history.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: –

Feature Details

With this feature, you can use Dataverse to store your flow execution data. This enables you to:

• Build custom reports for automation ROI (return on investment), monitoring, and more.
• Retain flow execution records for longer than 30 days.
• Centralize the automation execution storage data across cloud and desktop flows.

My Opinion

It will be interesting to see how this works, but on the surface this sounds like it should be useful.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is monitor performance for cloud and desktop flow activities.

You can use a central consolidated view to monitor and understand the executions across cloud and desktop flows.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: –

Feature Details

With this feature, you have a single consolidated view to understand the automation performance across your cloud and desktop flows. This feature enables you to:

• Understand the top trends across all of your automation assets (for example, success and failure) across different time periods.
• Understand top errors and their trends.
• Understand top flows with specific errors.
• Seamlessly switch between cloud and desktop flows activity.

My Opinion

This sounds like it should be a very good enhancement, giving you better ability to monitor flows and see where errors are happening. As the number of flows in use grows, it can become harder to keep track of individual ones, so improved monitoring seems to be really good.