Azure DevOps Worklog
The Azure DevOps Worklog page shows work item activity across your team for a selected period — creates, updates, state changes, and assignments — aggregated by project and teammate.
Use it to answer questions like:
- Which projects had the most work item activity this week?
- Which teammates were active and on which items?
- Is work item activity trending up or down across the team?
Getting Started
Navigate to Signals → ADO Worklog in the sidebar. The Azure DevOps data source must be configured and at least one sync must have completed.
Use the date range picker and teammate selector in the header to filter the data. The page updates immediately when filters change.
Summary Cards
At the top of the page, four cards give a quick snapshot of the selected period:
| Card | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Total updates | Number of work item events across all projects and teammates |
| Projects | Number of distinct ADO projects with activity |
| Work items | Number of distinct work items that were touched |
| Teammates | Number of teammates with at least one event |
Project Breakdown
Below the summary cards, activity is grouped by project. Each project shows a table of the work items that were touched, with a count of updates per item and a direct link to the item in Azure DevOps (if the organization URL is configured).
Projects are sorted by total update count, descending. Work items within each project are also sorted by update count.
Charts
Activity Trend
A stacked bar chart showing daily work item event counts, broken down by activity type:
- Created — new work items opened
- State changed — status transitions (e.g. Active → Resolved)
- Assigned — ownership changes
- Updated — field edits and other updates
Use this chart to spot busy days, quiet periods, and whether activity is trending up or down over the selected range.
State Destination Breakdown
A horizontal bar chart showing which states work items are moving to, based on state-change events. Each bar shows the count and percentage share. Use it to understand whether work is predominantly moving toward completion or cycling between active states.
Daily Breakdown
A matrix table showing each teammate’s work item activity day by day, broken down by project. Each cell shows the number of events for that teammate, project, and day.
A small colour bar under each daily total provides a quick visual signal:
- Green — 3 or more updates (healthy activity)
- Red — 9 or more updates (unusually high volume)
- Yellow — 1–2 updates (low activity)
Weekend columns are visually distinguished with a hatched background.
Each teammate row can be collapsed to hide the project-level breakdown. A sparkline next to the teammate name shows the activity trend for the selected period.
Individual Updates
A detailed table listing every work item event in the selected period, one row per event, with the date/time, teammate, work item ID (linked to Azure DevOps), title, activity type, and project.
Requirements
- The Azure DevOps data source must be enabled under Settings → Data Sources.
- Work item activity requires the Work Items (read) PAT scope. See Azure DevOps Setup for the full list of required scopes.
- Links to individual work items are only shown when the organization URL is correctly configured in the data source settings.