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Monitoring the Power Platform

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Connectors are primarily used throughout Power Platform Pillars like Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Moreover, Connectors are used in Azure services such as Azure Logic Apps. Also, connectors are a wrapper around first and third-party APIs that offer a way for services to communicate with each other. Also, Connector represents the glue between services, thereby allowing users to setup Connections to connect various accounts together. These connectors include a wide range of SaaS providers including 

  • Dynamics 365, 
  • Office 365, 
  • Dropbox, 
  • Salesforce and more.

Connector Components

Each connector used in the Power Platform consists of operations called – Actions and Triggers

Actions – Actions are operations that read, change or manipulate data or variables, all directed by a Maker. These are tied to the Connector (Open API) definition provided by each service. Examples include Reading data from the Common Data Service, sending emails through Outlook or internal operations such as parsing JSON or looping through a result set.

Triggers – Triggers represent notifications to Microsoft Power Automate Flows or Azure Logic Apps that an event has occurred. They are generally grouped into two types of triggers: Poll and Push Triggers. A polling trigger makes a call into the API at a reoccurring frequency to check for new messages. When new data is available, the trigger will run the Flow or Logic App. A push trigger is a listener waiting for an event to occur or a message to be received. Once received, the trigger will run the Flow or Logic App. 

Connections

Connections are used by Power Apps and Power Automate to activate and work with Connectors. When viewing within the Portal, each connection has an identifier, the connector its using, the creation time and who created it as well as the current environment and status. Each connection shows how it’s used across Power Apps and Power Automate Flows.

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