topic Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server in Report Server

Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

GuestUser — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:03:33 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone please let me know how can we check the usage of all the reports on power BI Report server

I understand we can get the information from Execution log2 and execution Log 3 tables

But If I have a report with Multiple pages - the pages Information is not captrured in it

Only the Report name is visible - which does not serve teh purpose

Pls suggest

Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

KBO — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:29:07 GMT

HI GuestUser ,

may be this link can help you: https://insightsquest.com/2018/01/29/power-bi-report-server-monitoring/

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Kathrin

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Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

d_gosbell — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:04:40 GMT

GuestUser wrote:

But If I have a report with Multiple pages - the pages Information is not captrured in it

Only the Report name is visible - which does not serve teh purpose

The problem here is that when a pbix report is served up to the user the server sends the definition of all the pages to the client in the first request and the changing between pages is then a client side operation. I do not believe there is any tracking of the click events on the page tabs at this point in time.

Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

KBO — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:35:16 GMT

Hi d_gosbell ,

ok, than I misunderstood the question, and if this is the case then I don't know a way to track this. And I think there is no way at the moment to do this.

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Kathrin

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Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

GuestUser — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:13:04 GMT

Oh , then there is no way to identify whether the reports (present in multiple pages) are being used by the users or not

Thanks for the information !!

Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

KBO — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:41:18 GMT

Hi GuestUser ,

please mark your post as solved :). This will help other with the same problem.

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Kathrin

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Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

d_gosbell — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:58:40 GMT

So this is probably not completely impossible, but I'm not aware of any automated or built in way of doing this.

You could use a technique used by bulk mail systems to track email views. You could use a tracking image with extra info in the query string of the url. The idea is that you create a small 1 pixel transparent gif (or you could use a company logo) and host it on a web server somewhere. Then you would create a disconnected table with a list of the pages in your report and a measure that returned the path to the gif image and then extra information in the query string.

eg.
http://webserver/images/tracking.gif?Report=MyReport&Page=1

Then you put an image on each page and each time it renders it will load this image and if you have logging switched on for the website with the image you can then load those logs and parse them to see which pages users are looking at. Not a great solution I know and prone to manual error, specially if people copy reports and pages, but if you have a few key reports that you want to track the page useage for then it might be OK.

Re: Usage Tracking of power Bi report Server

GuestUser — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:09:56 GMT

Thanks for the workaround !!