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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Difference between RequestId and ActivityId

Hi, I'm analyzing logs from Office 365 Audit Log to monitor the usage of PowerBI and I'm finding some data that I don't understand at all. What's the difference betwen RequestId and ActivityId in O...
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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

Per my understanding, ActivityId represents the type of activity a user made on service, the same activity has the same ActivityId. While each time a user makes an activity would send a new request which leads to a new RequestId.

 

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Yuliana Gu

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Hi v-yulgu-msft,

 

When you say the activity type what do you mean exactly?

I'm exporting 2 types of activity, "ViewsReport" and "ViewDashboard", and I'm obtaining this distribution for the ActivitiesId:

 

 

Why in some cases we have the same activityID for multiple actions  (ViewReport or ViewDashboard) with different CreationDate and in other cases (1575 cases) I have only one action for activityId?

 

Thanks