Performance identifying Measure

[VenuBollineni]

I have a model that contains 200 measures. It is a centralized model for finance, and multiple reports are developed from it. I need to know which measure is causing an issue. Is it possible to identify the problematic measure using DAX Studio from the complete model, not report-wise?

[v-ssriganesh]

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[mark_endicott · Accepted solution]

@VenuBollineni - How do you know if a DAX measure is performing poorly if it's not used in a report??

DAX measures will not run a query against your model unless they are used in a visual.

Once you have identified the measure that is causing a report or visual to run slowly you can use DAX Studio against your server held model through the XMLA Endpoint. 

However, you can only use this if you have a Premium Capacity or PPU: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-premium-connect-tools

If you do not have either you can still use DAX Studio, but you will need to use it againts your model from the PBI Desktop file - it will need to have enough data in, which will mean unleashing some of your data limiting parameters if you do this. 

[v-ssriganesh]

Hi
Thanks for posting your query in community forum.

To identify the problematic measure in your centralized model, you can use Power BI Desktop's Performance Analyzer by following these steps:

1.In Power BI Desktop, go to the View ribbon and select Performance Analyzer to display the Performance Analyzer pane.

2. Click the Start recording button. What you do in the report is visible and recorded in the Performance Analyzer pane.
3. Now, go ahead, for instance, and touch slicers or click the visuals. This will introduce queries
4. Through the Performance Analyzer, all the duration required to refresh or update all the visuals should be presented. Identify which measure or which visual is holding up longer. You could even take the performance log and send it elsewhere for further analysis.

Below is related link for performance analyzer
Use Performance Analyzer to examine report element performance in Power BI Desktop

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[v-ssriganesh]

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[Poojara_D12]

Hi @VenuBollineni 

To identify the problematic measure in DAX Studio:

1. Connect to Your Model: Open DAX Studio and connect to your centralized model.
2. Enable Tracing: Turn on Server Timings and Query Plan.
3. Run Queries: Interact with your report or execute queries to trigger measure evaluations.
4. Analyze Performance: Check Server Timings for slow or long-duration queries and identify the measure causing issues.
5. Test Individual Measures: Write test queries in DAX Studio to pinpoint the problematic measure.
6. Optimize: Simplify DAX logic or reduce dependencies for the identified measure.

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