Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Enhance your career with this limited time 50% discount on Fabric and Power BI exams. Ends August 31st. Request your voucher.

Reply

Decode Consumption Method values

I am reviewing the usage data for our Power BI reports. I am trying to decode the Consumption Method values to understand what user behaviors correlate with the different values; specifically for the View Report Activity. Here I can see Consumption Method defined as "How users opened the report, such as via the Power BI service (powerbi.com), Power BI Embedded, or a mobile device."

For example the values I am returning are...

 

  1. Power BI Web
  2. Power BI Mobile
  3. Simplified Embedding
  4. Embedding for your organization
  5. UNKNOWN

Values #1 and #2 are straight forward.

 

I am not having any luck understanding what user behaviors correlate to #3 and #4. Embed in Teams? Embed in PPT? Other possibilities?

 

Value #5 shows a significant % as UNKOWN. What circumstances would cause a View Report activity to have an UNKNOWN Consumption Method?

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION
AmosHersch
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @danielcarpenter,

 

AFAIK "Simplified embedding" is what is also called secure embed, see here: Embed a report in a secure portal or website - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

"Embedding for your organization" - This is the same as SaaS Embed / "User owns data". I don't think your can determine the hosting app, it can be Teams/PPTX/your own application Power BI usage scenarios: Embed for your organization - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

I don't know what are all the UKNOWN values, probably Power BI couldn't detect the hosting application due to missing information/bug.

View solution in original post

2 REPLIES 2
AmosHersch
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @danielcarpenter,

 

AFAIK "Simplified embedding" is what is also called secure embed, see here: Embed a report in a secure portal or website - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

"Embedding for your organization" - This is the same as SaaS Embed / "User owns data". I don't think your can determine the hosting app, it can be Teams/PPTX/your own application Power BI usage scenarios: Embed for your organization - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

I don't know what are all the UKNOWN values, probably Power BI couldn't detect the hosting application due to missing information/bug.

Thanks. It wasn't clear which type the Teams and PPT embedding fell into. These were helpful. 

Helpful resources

Announcements
July 2025 community update carousel

Fabric Community Update - July 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.

July PBI25 Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - July 2025

Check out the July 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.