If you manage Windows 365 Cloud PCs at any scale, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of hunting across multiple Intune reports just to get a coherent picture of what’s happening. Microsoft is addressing that with two overlapping additions currently in public preview: Admin Insights and the new Cloud PC Monitoring platform. Both surface in the Intune admin center, and together they represent a significant step forward for Cloud PC observability.
Admin Insights: Automatic Health Cards, No Configuration Required
Admin Insights adds a dynamic insight card panel directly to the Cloud PC Overview page in Intune. The key differentiator here is that you don’t configure anything. The Windows 365 service analyzes activity and patterns across your tenant and automatically surfaces up to 15 prioritized insight cards covering connectivity, provisioning, performance, and utilization issues.
When everything looks healthy, you’ll see a simple “You’re all caught up” message. When the service detects something worth your attention — a spike in connection failures, underutilized licenses, provisioning anomalies — the relevant cards appear automatically.
These are complementary, not competing. Alerts are rule-based — you define thresholds, set severity levels, and configure notifications. Admin Insights are generated automatically by the service based on observed patterns, with no rules to maintain. Use both.
Licensing and Access Requirements
Admin Insights requires Windows 365 Enterprise or Windows 365 Flex licensing. Standard read permissions in Intune are sufficient to view the insight cards — no additional RBAC configuration needed beyond what you’d already have for Cloud PC management.
The New Cloud PC Monitoring Platform
Alongside Admin Insights, Microsoft released a broader Cloud PC Monitoring platform in public preview in April 2026. This is accessible under Intune Admin Center > Reports > Cloud PC monitoring (preview) and consolidates data that was previously scattered across multiple locations into three unified pages:
- Connection Health — tracks connectivity patterns and failure signals across your Cloud PC fleet.
- User and Devices — drill-down into per-user and per-device performance data without exporting to external tools.
- Configuration Monitoring — end-to-end visibility into provisioning policies and configuration state.
The goal is to eliminate the need for manual data exports or third-party dashboards for routine Cloud PC health monitoring.
Existing Reports Worth Knowing
The new platform doesn’t replace the Cloud PC Overview reports — those remain accessible and useful. The key ones to keep in your rotation:
- Cloud PC utilization — identifies idle licenses that could be reallocated or removed.
- Cloud PCs that aren’t available — lists devices with failed health checks or consecutive connection failures. Note that data here reflects conditions from roughly 5–15 minutes prior, so a quickly-recovered device may still briefly appear.
- Cloud PC size recommendations — uses observed resource consumption to flag Cloud PCs that may need more CPU or RAM.
Admin Insights and the new Cloud PC Monitoring platform are both in public preview — meaning the feature set will evolve, and some data latency or rough edges are expected. That said, the direction is right: a single pane of glass for Cloud PC health without needing to export data or build custom dashboards is a long-overdue improvement for Windows 365 Enterprise admins.
