Get started with custom reports and alerts

  • Last update on December 5th, 2024

Configuration Manager provides default compliance and change detection reports as a starting point for monitoring your cloud environment.

For more specific requirements, you can customize the reporting and set up targeted alerts thanks to the integration of Power BI Reporting with Log Analytics. This feature enables you to adjust your monitoring approach based on your needs.

You can: 

  • Create custom reports to track configurations and changes across tenants or focus on particular aspects of your infrastructure. 
  • Set up custom queries to monitor specific areas of interest.
  • Create custom alerts for real-time notifications.

For instance, custom queries can be set up to monitor changes in access policies, track configuration modifications, or analyze changes within individual tenants. The system uses a dataset that records each sync operation, which is regularly uploaded to the Log Analytics workspace, providing up-to-date information.

You can leverage this data to create highly customized reports and alerts. The system allows for the development of specific Log Analytics queries that can monitor any aspect of tenant configurations. These queries can be transformed into real-time alerts, notifying you of critical changes or triggering automated responses, such as creating support tickets in integrated third-party systems.