Domain 1 of 3 · Chapter 11 of 22

Monitor agent flows

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Included in this chapter:

  • Two objects, two altitudes: the monitoring grid
  • The agent flow's three tabs, and what each one owns
  • Working an agent flow's run history
  • Before any run: the authoring-time surfaces
  • Real-time activity map or historical Activity page
  • Reading an activity: nodes, statuses, and Rationale
  • Visibility: who sees which activity and which analytics
  • Correlating an agent activity with a flow run
  • How these choices show up in questions

Which monitoring surface answers which question

SurfaceObject it reports onAltitudeEvidence you getWrong choice when
Flow checker (designer)Agent flow definitionOutside the grid: no executionEvery error and warning in the flow as authored; errors block publishingThe flow already published and fails only for some inputs
Agent flow Overview tabAgent flowOutside the grid: configurationName, description, connections, owner and co-owners, created and modified dates, most recent runs, delete or turn offYou need the error inside one of those runs
Agent flow Activity tabAgent flowOne executionRun history with status and duration; select a run to step through each action's inputs and outputs; resubmit or cancel selected runsThe question is which tool the orchestrator picked, or why
Agent flow Analytics tabAgent flowAggregateNumber of runs, failure rate and performance trends; solution flows only, up to 30 minutes behindYou need one run's action, payload or error
Real-time activity map (Test your agent)AgentOne execution, reproduced nowThe generated plan, the selected action, parameter values, outputs, per-step duration, highlighted errorsThe failure already happened and cannot be reproduced
Agent Activity page (historical)AgentOne execution, already pastRecorded activities with status, completed steps and last step; filter by Failed; transcript and map views; Rationale on demandYou need step-level detail inside the flow the agent called
Agent Analytics pageAgentAggregateEngagement and adoption, conversation or run outcomes, tool use and success rate, knowledge source use, satisfaction, over the reporting periodYou are diagnosing a single conversation or a single flow run

Decision tree

Does the symptom needan execution to exist?no, it cannot even publishyes, it ranFlow checkererrors and warningsin the definitionOne execution,or a trend across many?a trendone executionThe flow runs,or the agent outcomes?The agent decision,or a step inside the flow?the flow runsthe agent outcomesa step in the flowthe agent decisionAgent flow Analyticsruns, failure rate,performance trendsAgent Analytics pageoutcomes, tool use,satisfaction, adoptionAgent flow Activityopen the run, step througheach action in and outCan you reproduce iton demand?yesnoReal-time activity mapTest your agent panel:plan, action, parametersHistorical activityActivity page,filter by Failed
Cheat sheet

Cheat sheet

  • Open a failed run and inspect each action's details
  • Use the flow checker for authoring-time flow issues
  • Compare successful and failed runs to isolate intermittent data conditions
  • Correlate the flow run with the originating agent activity
  • Operate on multiple flow runs from the Activity tab
  • Match each agent-flow monitoring tab to its scope
  • Use the real-time activity map while reproducing a tool call
  • Use historical Activity for a conversation that already failed
  • Use Analytics for aggregate performance, not individual step diagnostics
  • Account for identity and sharing limits in activity visibility
  • Verify Activity rationale against execution evidence

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References

  1. Agent flows overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  2. Review agent activity - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  3. Monitor your agent flows - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  4. Agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio FAQ FAQ
  5. Manage and monitor agent flows - Microsoft Learn training
  6. Edit and manage your agent flow in the designer - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  7. Analyze conversational agents - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  8. Analyze autonomous agents - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  9. Share agents with other users - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  10. Analytics overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio
  11. FlowActionBadRequest error fix for agents - Copilot Studio troubleshooting