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michaelccdf
Helper I
5 years ago

Power BI Rest API as a datasource

I have a PBI report which displays information from our nightly data pipelines.  I'd like to show the last refresh date for datasets in the PBI service.  I see the REST api has a resource for this (h...
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michaelccdf
Helper I
5 years ago

Thanks for this, however I'm not clear on what Azure DevOps Analytics views has to do with the PBI REST api.  I'm trying to get the refresh history for my PowerBI datasets into a Power BI report.  One way to do it would be to download the data from the PBI REST API, load it into a database and then have the database as a data source in PBI. 

 

Just wondering if there is a way to use the PBI REST api as a datasource directly, without having to download to a database first.