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View the OData query behind an Analytics report or widget

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Several built-in Analytics reports and widgets are supported. You can view the OData query used to generate these reports by following the steps outlined in this article. You can then adapt that OData query as needed to generate other reports using Power BI.

For a list of built-in Analytics reports and widgets, see About dashboards, charts, reports, & widgets and Widgets based on Analytics data.

Prerequisites

Category Requirements
Access levels - Project member.
- At least Basic access.
Permissions By default, project members have permission to query Analytics and create views. For more information about other prerequisites regarding service and feature enablement and general data tracking activities, see Permissions and prerequisites to access Analytics.

Open the Analytics report

Open the report of interest. For details, choose one of the links provided below. If you are working to get the OData query behind a widget, we recommend that you create a dashboard with just the widget displayed.

Boards Pipelines & Test
- Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
- Sprint burndown
- Velocity chart		 - Build test results
- Code coverage
- Release test results
- Trace test requirements
- Test analytics
- Test failures
- Test impact analysis

Open Developer Tools for your browser

Press the F12 key to open the Developer Tools for your browser. Open the Network tab and scroll down to find the entry with the OData query. The following table lists the beginning text of entries for select reports. Double-click the entry to open the OData query.

Report Entry begins with
Cycle Time widget WorkItems?%24apply=filter
Cumulative Flow Diagram BoardLocations?%24apply=filter
Sprint Burndown BoardLocations?%24apply=filter
Velocity Iterations?%24filter=Teams

Sample OData query, Velocity chart

The following syntax represents the OData query for a velocity chart set to show six iterations.

{
  "@odata.context": "https://analytics.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/677da0fb-b067-4f77-b89b-f32c12bb8617/_odata/v4.0-preview/$metadata#Iterations(IterationSK,IterationName,StartDate,EndDate,IsEnded,IterationPath)",
  "value": [
    {
      "IterationSK": "5b25cc74-aeb3-4f13-8084-1e899d7383b5",
      "IterationName": "06_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\06_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-06-01T00:00:00-07:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-06-30T23:59:59.999-07:00",
      "IsEnded": false
    },
    {
      "IterationSK": "a9219cb0-21c0-48f4-8c88-83d0ae3187db",
      "IterationName": "05_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\05_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-05-01T00:00:00-07:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-05-31T23:59:59.999-07:00",
      "IsEnded": true
    },
    {
      "IterationSK": "8668264f-465d-4d69-b2b5-f5de742447d4",
      "IterationName": "04_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\04_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-04-01T00:00:00-07:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-04-30T23:59:59.999-07:00",
      "IsEnded": true
    },
    {
      "IterationSK": "4933928f-3e08-4cf9-901a-13cc32201944",
      "IterationName": "03_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\03_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-03-01T00:00:00-08:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-03-31T23:59:59.999-07:00",
      "IsEnded": true
    },
    {
      "IterationSK": "a690f087-bd77-42dc-b5aa-f34f64ed67b3",
      "IterationName": "02_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\02_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-02-01T00:00:00-08:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-02-28T23:59:59.999-08:00",
      "IsEnded": true
    },
    {
      "IterationSK": "edae3d3e-4357-4bae-9e25-f01719f48bb7",
      "IterationName": "01_2022",
      "IterationPath": "FabrikamProject\\CY2022\\01_2022",
      "StartDate": "2022-01-01T00:00:00-08:00",
      "EndDate": "2022-01-31T23:59:59.999-08:00",
      "IsEnded": true
    }
  ]
}
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