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MicroStrategy Platform Analytics

Platform Analytics is the next generation telemetry tool that leverages data from across the MicroStrategy platform including:

  • Environment composition
  • System usage
  • Project usage
  • User activity
  • Content usage
  • Cube usage
  • Subscription usage
  • Quality
  • Licensing
  • Identity

Data is streamed in real time through the MicroStrategy Telemetry Server layer and stored in the Platform Analytics warehouse. Platform Analytics provides several ways to access, analyze, and act on this telemetry, including out of the box standard dashboards and native telemetry interfaces in MicroStrategy Workstation; empowering administrators to provide a better experience to MicroStrategy users.

Protocols and Ports

TCP: 5432

Linux Information

Configuration: <InstallPath>/MicroStrategy/PlatformAnalytics/conf

Installation: <InstallPath>/MicroStrategy/PlatformAnalytics

Log Location: <InstallPath>/MicroStrategy/PlatformAnalytics/log

Windows Information

Configuration: <InstallPath>\MicroStrategy\Platform Analytics\conf

Installation: <InstallPath>\MicroStrategy\Platform Analytics

Log Location: <InstallPath>\MicroStrategy\Platform Analytics\log

Accessing Platform Analytics

You can access Platform Analytics data in three different ways depending on your needs:

  • By viewing the Platform Analytics data embedded in Workstation: One of the exciting features of Platform Analytics is that it exposes some of the data that it captures directly in the user interface of Workstation. This allows users who would otherwise not know how to consume Platform Analytics data, to gain access to important MicroStrategy data. For more information, see View DashboardUsage Activity in the Workstation Help.
  • By running the out-of-the-box Platform Analytics dashboards: Platform Analytics ships with a MicroStrategy project that provides out-of-the-box dashboards designed to showcase some of the data that Platform Analytics captures for each of the different system areas. The dashboards included with Platform Analytics are:
    • Compliance Telemetry: Determine if a MicroStrategy implementation complies with the license entitlements.
    • Cube and Cache Monitoring: Ensure that cubes and caches are being fully leveraged to improve the performance of key analytics content.
    • Error Analysis: Detect errors and anomalies in the system and improve the experience of MicroStrategy users by fixing those issues.
    • Object Telemetry: Identify the most popular analytics content in the system and determine who is viewing it and how fast it runs.
    • Project Overview: Analyze the performance of the MicroStrategy projects and determine which users connect to them and which products they use to connect.
    • Subscription Analysis: Determine which analytics content users subscribe to and how much load these subscriptions create on the system.
    • User Activity: Monitor what users do in MicroStrategy and ensure that they have a positive experience free of performance issues and other errors.
  • By creating your own dashboards: Platform Analytics also supports the creation of self-service content (dashboards, reports, and documents) which are based on the out-of-the-box schema and application objects included in the Platform Analytics project.