💡 Our Technical Review in summary
Summary
Microsoft has resolved an issue where usage reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center, specifically the “Teams Team” and “Group Activity” reports, experienced generation delays. The issue was traced back to a failure in an upstream data processing component.
Impact
IT Administrators may have seen delayed or outdated data in their usage reports between Tuesday, February 3, 2026, and Thursday, February 5, 2026. This impacted the visibility of activity trends for Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups.
Status
Service Restored. Microsoft engineers manually restarted the affected data processing component and verified that report generation has returned to normal. The service is now operating as expected, and Microsoft is investigating the root cause to prevent future occurrences.
Microsoft Official Issue Details
User Impact
Admins’ usage reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center may have been delayed.
Status: serviceRestored
Service: Microsoft 365 suite
Classification: advisory
Origin: microsoft
Updates
- 2026-02-05 21:48
Title: Admins’ usage reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center may be delayedUser impact: Admins’ usage reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center may have been delayed.
More info: The “Teams Team” and “Group Activity” usage reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center may have been delayed.
Final status: We’ve identified a failure in an upstream data processing component that prevented usage report data from generating to the Microsoft 365 admin center, resulting in delayed usage reports. To remediate this issue, we manually restarted the affected data processing component and, after monitoring the service, we’ve verified the issue is successfully resolved.
Scope of impact: Any admin may have been affected and may have seen delays in their usage reports in the Microsoft admin center.
Start time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC
End time: Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC
Root cause: A failure in an upstream data processing component prevented usage report data from being generated and supplied to the Microsoft 365 admin center, resulting in delayed usage reports.
Next steps:
– We’re investigating the failure in the upstream data processing component to help prevent this issue from recurring.This is the final update for the event.
- 2026-02-05 06:52
Title: Admins’ usage reports in the Microsoft admin center may be delayedUser impact: Admins’ usage reports in the Microsoft admin center may be delayed.
More info: The “Teams Team” and “Group Activity” usage reports in the Microsoft admin center may be delayed.
Current status: We were alerted to an issue from our internal monitoring that indicated a delay for the usage reports in the Microsoft admin center. We’re reviewing our service infrastructure and telemetry logs to help pinpoint the underlying cause of the delayed usage report data, and to help develop our next troubleshooting steps.
Scope of impact: Any admin may be affected and see delays in their usage reports in the Microsoft admin center. This information may be updated as our investigation continues.
Next update by: Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 10:30 PM UTC
