Is there a supported way to retrieve aggregated Foundry user usage statistics?

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to understand whether Foundry provides a supported way to retrieve high-level user usage statistics.

Specifically, I’m looking for aggregated metrics such as:

  • Number of unique users over different time periods (last 30 days, last 90 days, last year, etc.).
  • A way to distinguish between internal and external users using an available identifier (username, user ID, organization, or another supported attribute).

I understand that detailed user activity logs and audit information are intentionally protected for privacy reasons, and I’m not looking for audit-level data or individual user activity.

My goal is simply to obtain aggregated adoption metrics for reporting purposes.

We have already reviewed the documentation on Analyzing User Activity Metrics (https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/administration/analyze-user-activity-metrics/), but we could not determine whether it supports the type of aggregated statistics we’re looking for or if there is another recommended approach.

A few questions:

  1. Is there a built-in way to access these metrics in Foundry?
  2. Are there any datasets, APIs, Control Panel features, or other supported mechanisms that expose this information?
  3. If not, what is the recommended approach for collecting these statistics?

Any guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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Hi,

There are essentially two paths here depending on how granular you need to go.

Path 1 (built-in, lightweight): the User Activity Metrics dashboard

This is on the same page you found, under Control Panel > Organization > User Activity Metrics. The Platform usage tab gives you a count of unique users per day across the org, with the predefined ranges (30 / 90 days, etc.) or a custom window. Access is gated by the View usage metrics workflow, which is on the Organization Administrator and Organization Settings Viewer roles by default, so an admin can assign that workflow to a custom role without granting full admin.

If you want to go deeper, there’s an Export User Activity Metrics path (internal dataset export) to pipe the underlying metrics into your own pipeline and build reporting on top. Permission those datasets properly (apply a marking to the project, restrict to authorized people). I’m not aware of a clean public API endpoint for this, the export is the mechanism.

https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/administration/analyze-user-activity-metrics

Bonus for your internal/external split: use the User group membership grouping and filter. If your internal and external populations sit in different orgs or groups, that’s your identifier. Also worth noting for your privacy point: the dashboard suppresses anything below a floor (10+ members in a group, 10+ interactions in the range), so aggregation and de-identification are handled by construction.

If you want a bit more granularity, Action monitoring is also an option if you can track the specific Actions that matter to you. And this thread covers a bit more breadth on clues as to how other people manage it:

https://community.palantir.com/t/how-to-find-user-usage-statistics-in-foundry/725

Path 2 (heavier): audit logs v3

If the above still falls short and you need something more granular, audit logs v3 is the route. Someone with the right accesses will need to define the exact flow and the aggregation metrics up front, then hand you back only the relevant dataset, already filtered and aggregated. That way you get your adoption numbers without ever touching identifiable user-level data.

Happy to chat, there are a few ways to slice this depending on the end goal. And if anyone has other approaches, feel free to add.