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What is the best way to check the historical and real-time user logins/attempted logins?

I have analyzed the IIS logs using the 3rd party log analyzer tool but the visitor count seems to be too high. Not sure if that includes other connections (i.e. non-user connections including the Web services calls)

The Windows Perfmon's Anonymous user counts shows unusually high number in the morning when the users start to login to the CRM but not really sure if they are all real user logins or something else.

Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:18 PM

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Hello,

Since CRM 2011 we have possibility to use in-build auditing of user logins:

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crmlessons/archive/2011/03/29/crm-2011-auditing-best-practices

http://www.stellarise.com/insight/audit-of-when-users-last-used-ms-dynamics-crm-2011/#.VbruhvkzdA0
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- Proposed as answer by Ju_li3nMVP Friday, July 31, 2015 10:36 AM
Friday, July 31, 2015 3:44 AM

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Both the browser and the Outlook clients make a large number of web service calls to Crm, and each of those will show in the IIS logs as a separate request, so you do see a lot of activity in the IIS logs. A peak in the morning is most likely due to the Outlook client starting up.

The Crm audit log, as proposed by Andrii, gives a more manageable view on user logins

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Friday, July 31, 2015 8:40 AM

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