The news around the latest Search Usage Reports is music to my ears, however, the biggest issue I saw before was the fact you had the Central admin Search analytics, derived from the SharePoint Start page, then each Site collection had its own analytics…
I am trying to work with a customer to easily collate all search data across M365, filter, manipulate and help them plan for a better taxonomy, improved search through Managed properties in search schema and so on. Will this new way allow for a collective gather of such data? Is there an API that can be used to capture this across all site collections as per an automated process such as PowerAutomate, PowerShell, PnP… or the like??
There was also the ability for a user to capture data based on their specific search history etc as well through the search box settings… This would also be useful if it could be captured easily across all users in a tenant…