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Monitor data download from visuals
I have a specific question related to monitoring user activity on our platform, and I'm hoping someone here can offer some guidance or recommendations.
Is there any tool available where I can see or monitor which visuals users are downloading data to CSV or Excel? We've been working on a data visualisation project, and we'd like to gain insights into how our users are interacting with the visualisations and which specific data they are downloading.
Hi. I don't think you can track that. It's very specific. You can check the list of activity event logs that the PowerBi Rest API let you check in here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-auditing#operations-available-in-the-audit-and-activity-logsThere operation that consider "export...", but I can't see one that logs exporting from specific visual. There is one that talks about exporting from tile, but I think that's the visual at a dashboard, not the visual in a report.
I hope that helps,
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Hi. I don't think you can track that. It's very specific. You can check the list of activity event logs that the PowerBi Rest API let you check in here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-auditing#operations-available-in-the-audit-and-activity-logsThere operation that consider "export...", but I can't see one that logs exporting from specific visual. There is one that talks about exporting from tile, but I think that's the visual at a dashboard, not the visual in a report.
I hope that helps,
Cheers, I thought that would be the case, but thanks for all the additional information that you provided.
