Implementing a status display in PowerApps

[Pluet]

Hello,

we are using a PowerApp to upload images to OneDrive. Now we would like to implement a status display in the app itself that shows the availability of the PowerApp or PowerAutomate services, e.g. via a green or red dot, or via a text output. Are there already possibilities in this direction?

Thank you in advance!

[Chris-D]

Hi @Pluet, you can use Connection.Connected to check the connection status of the app. If it's online, there's no reason to believe that calls to other services would fail. 

There is a delay on the update of this property though. The only reliable way would be to check for an error when you attempt to call another service. 

[ANB]

Hi @Pluet , Didn't get the requirement. You have one PowerApps which is used to upload document to OneDrive, then in the same app you want status display to show the availability of the PowerApps or Power Automate services. So you mean other PowerApps and other Power Automate?

Could you elaborate the requirement please?

Thanks,

ANB

[Pluet]

Thanks for your fast reply. That would be one approach. However, this function only queries whether a general network connection is available, such as a connection via WLAN. But that doesn't tell me whether there is a connection to the PowerApps services.

[Pluet]

Hi @ANB , we recently had a case where the PowerApps and PowerAutomate services from Microsoft were not available. The Microsoft servers were down. Now I would like to install a status display in the app that shows whether the services are available so that you know exactly whether the images have been uploaded or not. As these images are a critical issue, it is very important that these images also arrive in OneDrive and are not lost when trying to upload them.

Thanks!

[Chris-D]

The only way I think you can do this is to have a timer that keeps repeating and performing a simple test. You could test Power Automate by creating a flow that simply returns true and run this at some interval. 

If it ever failed, you could assume that Power Automate was not available. 

[ANB]

Hi @Pluet, There is dashboard in M365 which talks about the health of each and every component in M365 like SharePoint, Exchange Online, PowerApps, Power Automate etc.

so you need to use the graph api to consume this Dashboard boards and shows that information to specific PowerApps and Power Automate.  If there is any advisory release by Microsoft for these service then show that message accordingly in your Canvas app.

The information is here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/servicehealth-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

Using this api end GET /admin/serviceAnnouncement/healthOverviews/{ServiceName}

You can get the heath of that service.

Service name example : Office 365 Powerapps, Office 365 Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, SharePoint Online etc.

To consume this api, you can create a schedule power automate which run daily and get the services. If any service has issue then get the information accordingly. 
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ANB

[ANB]

Hi @Pluet , One thing I forgot to add that you would require admin consent to use this api: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/admin/serviceAnnouncement/healthOverviews

So make sure to get the admin consent.

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