Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

[cbailiss1]

ALL user activities in Power BI should be logged for auditing purposes, including datasets accessed, reports/dashboards accessed, and especially data exports performed. The audit data should be accessible as a dataset to build reports against as well as easily exportable / downloadable.

[emmet63]

Amanda Cofsky, your last post says Started on June 9th, but i read the article below released on Aug 15th which describes an update in capability of Azure Audit Logs to start capturing Power BI data. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-auditing/

[marcelo_navarro]

Any progress? Very usable feature!

[michal8]

how can I give admin rights to power bi without giving the user the global admin role?

[mrobson]

New documentation has just been created on this topic: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-auditing/

[ERIC_vogelpohl]

Update?

[emmet63]

As others have posted, a critical missing need in PBI Service is having access to the user consumption data. Priority order for me would be 1) Reports, 2) Dashboards, 3) Datasets, 4) Content Packs. Our organization is issuing E5 license to users who need PBI Pro content access. Today we know who has the licenses, but no ability to know if they are actually using them and to know if we should revoke them.

[rob_johnston4]

Whilst the functionality in this is improving, it is only covering the object creation and deletion. Far more important, is which users are running which reports, how frequently and how long is the report taking to load. It is not possible to track usage for audit or adoption management purposes without knowing which reports are being run by whom and what their experience is like. Consider the business case for expanding the availability of PowerBI (Pro) to more users in an organisation. Without knowing these key statistics, it is not possible to prove they system is even being used. Please prioritise report usage auditing. Thanks!!

[mitchell_s_crim]

This feature is vital for our use case. We're in the process of migrating users to PowerBI from a legacy system and are unable to efficiently track who looks at what reports. The biggest issue here is that unlike our legacy system PowerBI does not provide a way to bring usage data back into a database for custom usage analysis.

[MKluczynski]

This feature looks really good, is there any idea on when this will be available in Europe?

[DavidONeill]

I agree. It seems crazy that we can provide access to company data without being able to monitor the activity this generates.