Data collection summary for Power Platform Client Products
Important
Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customised end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Power Platform client products covered by this information include:
Power Apps (Mobile)
Power Automate for Desktop
Power Automate Machine Runtime
Power Automate Mobile App
Power Automate Process Mining
Overview of Required and Optional data
Microsoft is dedicated to being transparent with our customers about the data we collect from our client software and giving them more control over their data. As part of this work, we’re moving our major products to a model where diagnostic data we collect from our client software as customers use their devices will be classified as either Required or Optional. This will make it easier for our customers to find information about the data we collect and how we use it, and to make informed choices about their privacy.
Diagnostic data is used to keep Power Platform client software secure and up to date, detect, diagnose and fix problems, and also make product improvements. This data does not include a user's name or email address, the content of the user's files, or information about apps unrelated to Power Platform.
While Microsoft classifies some diagnostic data as Required and some as Optional, Power Platform client software only collects Required diagnostic data from its users. This article provides an overview of the types of diagnostic data that are Required, and the specific categories of diagnostic data that are collected by Power Platform client products.
Required Data
As noted above, data in the Required category is necessary to keep our products up to date, secure, and working as expected. Required diagnostic data includes things like the type and version of a customer’s device or software configuration so we can provide connectivity to our cloud services, security patches to help keep our customers’ experiences safe, secure and functioning with a high degree of performance, detect significant feature failures, and then diagnose and fix those failures more quickly to reduce impact to customers.
Required diagnostic data is the minimum data necessary to help keep Power Platform client software performing as expected on the device it's installed on. Examples include summary details about the health and security of the running service like versioning information about your infrastructure, configuration details, success or errors you’ve received, and aggregated information about failures and security concerns, execution flows, service interactions, and more.
Required diagnostic data is managed with your organisation’s and your employees’ security and privacy in mind. You can learn more about our commitments to protect data in the Microsoft Trust Centre / Privacy.
Required diagnostic data in Power Platform client software is organised into the following data categories:
Required diagnostic data summary
Data Category | Description | Examples |
Device connectivity and configuration | This type of Required diagnostic data includes details about the device, its configuration, and connectivity capabilities. |
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Product and service performance | This type of Required diagnostic data includes details about device or service health and performance. |
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Product and service usage | This type of Required diagnostic data includes details about the usage of the device, operating system, applications, and services. |
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Software setup and inventory | This type of Required diagnostic data includes software installation and update information on the device. |
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Optional data
Data in the Optional category isn’t essential to the product or service experience. Power Platform client products only collect the required data, which is used to keep the service safe, secure and functioning as expected and does not collect any Optional diagnostic data.
Privacy information and settings
Microsoft offers customers details about how their data is collected. Click on the links below to learn more about the data that Microsoft collects and the controls available to enterprise system administrators.
Learn more about the various options available to administrators to manage Power Platform settings in their organisations:
Learn more about how we generally collect and use data: