| name | azurebackup-telemetry-report |
| description | Generate weekly telemetry reports and customer adoption reports for Azure Backup MCP tools. Runs KQL queries against the Kusto telemetry cluster, analyzes error patterns with 3-way classification (Customer/Azure Service/MCP Tool Bug), identifies customers via P360/C360 cross-cluster joins, compares week-over-week metrics, correlates with merged PRs and releases, and produces an Outlook-compatible HTML report. USE WHEN: weekly telemetry report, Azure Backup MCP telemetry, error analysis, telemetry bugs, weekly report, MCP tool success rate, backup telemetry, error classification, customer usage report, who is using Azure Backup MCP, backup adoption, customer report. |
| argument-hint | Generate an Azure Backup MCP telemetry or customer adoption report |
Azure Backup MCP — Weekly Telemetry & Customer Report Generator
Purpose
Generate comprehensive telemetry reports for the Azure Backup MCP toolset by:
- Querying live production telemetry from Kusto
- Classifying errors into Customer / Azure Service / MCP Tool Bug
- Identifying customers via P360/C360 cross-cluster joins (using
P360_CustomerName)
- Correlating with merged PRs and releases
- Producing an Outlook-compatible HTML report
When to Use
- Weekly cadence (every Monday or Sunday) to produce the status report
- After a release to assess error rate impact
- When triaging production bugs from telemetry data
- When preparing stakeholder updates on Azure Backup MCP health
- Customer adoption reports for any time range (e.g., last 15 days, 30 days)
- When asked "who is using Azure Backup MCP?" or "generate customer report"
Prerequisites
- Azure authentication configured (the Kusto MCP tool needs access to
ddazureclients.kusto.windows.net)
- Access to the
AzureDevExp database on the Kusto cluster
- Git access to
microsoft/mcp repository (for PR/release correlation)
Procedure
Step 1: Query Telemetry Data
Run the following KQL queries against the Kusto cluster using the MCP Kusto tool.
All queries use:
- Cluster URI:
https://ddazureclients.kusto.windows.net
- Database:
AzureDevExp
- Function:
getAzureMcpEvents_ToolCalls
1a. Per-Tool Success/Failure with 3-Way Classification (7-day)
This is the primary query. It classifies every call into one of four categories:
- Success: Tool call completed without error
- Customer (4xx): User error — wrong permissions (403), bad input (400), resource not found (404)
- Azure Service: Azure SDK/API/auth layer failed — not an MCP code bug (includes
AggregateException, RequestFailedException with 5xx)
- MCP Tool Bug: Our tool code is wrong —
FormatException, ArgumentNullException, ArgumentException, etc.
Refer to kql-queries.md for the full query.
1b. Aggregate KPI — This Week vs Last Week
Compare total calls, success rate, customer errors, Azure service errors, and MCP tool bugs between
the current week and the previous week. See kql-queries.md.
1c. Error Details
Run the error summary query to get per-tool exception types, messages, and stack traces.
Also run the daily error trend query. See kql-queries.md.
1d. Duration Percentiles
Get P50/P95/P99 latency for successful calls. See kql-queries.md.
1e. Custom Dimension Tags
Query azurebackup/VaultType, azurebackup/WorkloadType, azurebackup/DatasourceType, azurebackup/OperationScope
dimensions to see if users have upgraded to versions with telemetry tags.
Use queries 7, 11, 12, and 13 from kql-queries.md.
Step 2: Gather Git Context
Run these git commands against the microsoft/mcp repository:
git log upstream/main --oneline --since="<week-start>" -- tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/
git log upstream/main --oneline --since="<week-start>" --grep="Prepare MCP release"
git branch -a --list "*azurebackup*"
git diff <last-release-tag>..upstream/main --stat -- tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/
Also count tests on main (checkout upstream/main test files first):
$facts = (Select-String "\[Fact\]" tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/tests/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup.Tests/**/*.cs | Measure-Object).Count
$inlines = (Select-String "\[InlineData" tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/tests/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup.Tests/**/*.cs | Measure-Object).Count
Select-String "\[Fact\]" tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/tests/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup.Tests/*.cs | Measure-Object
Select-String "AddCommand" tools/Azure.Mcp.Tools.AzureBackup/src/AzureBackupSetup.cs | Measure-Object
Important: Do NOT count [Fact] + [Theory] as the unit test count — that gives you
method count, not runnable test count. Each [InlineData] on a [Theory] is a separate test.
Step 3: Analyze and Classify
Apply the 3-way error classification:
| Category | Exception Types | What It Means |
|---|
| Customer (4xx) | RequestFailedException with 400/403/404, KeyNotFoundException | User error — wrong input, missing permissions, resource doesn't exist |
| Azure Service | AggregateException, RequestFailedException with 5xx | Azure SDK/API/auth layer failure — tool correctly surfaces it |
| MCP Tool Bug | FormatException, ArgumentNullException, ArgumentException, InvalidOperationException (thrown by our code for unsupported operations) | Our tool code is wrong — needs a fix |
MCP Tool Success Rate = (Total - MCP Tool Bugs) / Total
For each error cluster, determine:
- Is this a new error or seen in previous weeks?
- Is there an existing bug ID (BUG-1 through BUG-8 from the original triage)?
- Has a fix been merged? If so, which PR and release?
- Is the user possibly on an older version (pre-fix)?
Step 4: Generate the Report
Use the report-template.html as a starting point.
The report must include these sections in order:
- Header — Title, date range, summary line
- Key Metrics — KPI boxes with week-over-week deltas (Total Calls, MCP Tool Success %, Customer Errors, Azure Service Errors, MCP Tool Bugs, Distinct Users)
- Releases Shipped — Table of releases with Azure Backup changes
- Per-Tool Health Table — 3-way classification with MCP % column
- Error Deep Dive — Analysis of top error patterns
- Error Hotspots — Table by HTTP status code and classification
- Merged PRs — Cards for each merged PR with bug references
- Open PRs — Pending branches
- Bug Tracker — Updated status of all known bugs
- Codebase Snapshot — Tool count, test counts, lines changed
- Action Items — Prioritized next steps
Save the report as azure-backup-telemetry-report-<date>.html (both the styled version and the Outlook-compatible version).
Step 5: Outlook-Compatible Version
For the Outlook version, apply these rules:
- All styles inline (no
<style> block or CSS classes)
- Table-based layout instead of flexbox/grid for KPI boxes
- No
border-radius, gradients, or CSS pseudo-elements
- Use
cellpadding/cellspacing attributes on tables
- Include MSO
PixelsPerInch declaration in <head>
- Use
border-left on table cells for callout boxes (instead of separate div)
Error Classification Decision Tree
Customer Report Queries: For customer identification, tool adoption, client distribution,
and version analysis, refer to kql-customer-queries.md
(queries 14–24). These queries use cross-cluster joins to mabprod1 (P360) and icmdataro.centralus (C360)
for customer name resolution and external/internal classification.
Key rule: Always use P360_CustomerName (not CustomerName) from the P360 table.
The CustomerName field contains generic tenant names (e.g., "Denis" for Prometeia SpA).
Important: MCP bug exception types must be checked before StatusCode.
The HandleException base class maps ArgumentNullException (inherits ArgumentException)
to HTTP 400, which would incorrectly classify MCP bugs as "Customer" errors if StatusCode
is checked first.
Is success == true?
└─ YES → "Success"
└─ NO →
Is ExceptionType FormatException / ArgumentNullException / ArgumentException / InvalidOperationException?
└─ YES → "MCP Tool Bug"
└─ NO →
Is ExceptionType ValidationError?
└─ YES → "Customer (4xx)" (user omitted required options)
Is ExceptionType System.UnauthorizedAccessException?
└─ YES → "Customer (4xx)" (broken credentials / expired token)
Is ExceptionType Azure.Identity.CredentialUnavailableException?
└─ YES → "Customer (4xx)" (auth not configured)
Is StatusCode 400/401/403/404?
└─ YES → "Customer (4xx)"
└─ NO →
Is ExceptionType Azure.RequestFailedException with 5xx?
└─ YES → "Azure Service"
Is ExceptionType System.AggregateException?
└─ YES → "Azure Service"
Otherwise → "Unknown" (investigate)
Known Bug IDs
These are the bugs triaged from the original telemetry analysis (April 2026):
| Bug | Tool | Description | Fix PR | Release |
|---|
| BUG-1 | backup_status, protecteditem_get | ArgumentNullException on null ResourceType in MapArmResourceTypeToBackupDataSourceType | #2518 (partial), #2621 (defense-in-depth) | beta.7 (partial), pending |
| BUG-2 | protecteditem_protect | VM pre-discovery loop timeout | #2470 | beta.6 |
| BUG-3 | protectableitem_list, find-unprotected | Workload normalization ArgumentException in ValidateAndParseResourceTypeFilter | #2518 (partial), #2621 (relaxed regex) | beta.7 (partial), pending |
| BUG-4 | soft-delete | Deprecated BackupResourceVaultConfig API | #2518 | beta.7 |
| BUG-5 | enable-crr | Deprecated BackupResourceConfig API | #2518 | beta.7 |
| BUG-6 | vault_get | FormatException on subscription name (non-GUID) | #2518 | beta.7 |
| BUG-7 | protecteditem_protect | DPP vault missing managed identity | #2470 | beta.6 |
| BUG-8 | recoverypoint_get | Null container in resolution | #2518 | beta.7 |
| NEW-1 | vault_get | AggregateException — pre-existing auth race (Azure Service, not MCP bug) | Not filed | — |
| NEW-2 | job_get | FormatException in DPP SDK — XmlConvert.ToTimeSpan fails during DataProtectionBackupJobProperties.Deserialize (Azure SDK bug, not MCP code) | #2621 (workaround catch), azure-sdk#59306 (upstream) | pending |
Note: PR #2518 title says "Fix 5 telemetry-triaged bugs (BUG-3,4,5,6,8)" but the
actual merged code also includes the BUG-1 fix. However, the #2518 fixes for BUG-1 and
BUG-3 were incomplete — confirmed by telemetry on beta.8/beta.9. PR #2621 adds
defense-in-depth fixes for both. Always verify the diff, not just the title.
When new errors appear, assign the next sequential ID (NEW-2, NEW-3, etc.) and add to this table.
References