Intune Advanced Analytics

Foreword

When managing large fleets, understanding what’s actually happening across endpoints becomes increasingly important. Intune’s Advanced Analytics is a set of tools that bring visibility, intelligence, and data-driven insights to endpoint management—beyond traditional reporting.

This guide breaks down what it is, what you get, and where it can fit into a modern device management.

What is Advanced Analytics?

Advanced Analytics in Intune refers to enhanced features built on top of standard reporting and telemetry. It enables:

Deep visibility into device health, policy status, and user behavior
Predictive alerts for device performance or security risks
Customizable insights via Kusto Query Language (KQL) in the Intune Data Warehouse
AI-powered recommendations (e.g. suggested app optimizations)

It’s designed to answer questions like:

“Which apps are having performance issues?”
“Which devices are likely to hit support issues soon?”
“Where are policy conflicts happening most often?”

Key Capabilities

Device Timeline & Boot Performance
- View startup time trends, app impact, and regression detection over time.
Policy Health Insights
- Detect deployment gaps or conflicts in configuration and compliance policies.
Custom Queries (KQL)
- Use built-in queries or write your own to explore raw data in the Data Warehouse.
Suggested Actions
- Get AI-based recommendations for remediation or configuration tweaks.

Requirements

While some analytics features are built-in, full access to Advanced Analytics typically requires:

Intune Suite or Intune Plan 2 licensing
Enabled Data Warehouse access
Microsoft Entra roles such as Intune Administrator or Reports Reader
Diagnostic data enabled in tenant admin. (which is a requirement for Autopatch, among other things).

Integration Tips

Use Power BI to visualize custom dashboards
Automate alerting based on KQL queries using Log Analytics + Sentinel
Correlate with Defender or Update Compliance for cross-service insights