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How does PBI Report Server calculate usage
opejoseph wrote:
But my main question is, why does the execution log table shows that users view reports in 1, 3 seconds? Is that time not too short to even load a report, talkless filtering visualizations.
This is because the server sends the report metadata for Power BI Reports to the user's browser and the rendering then happens in the browser and the server is unaware of how long the user has the report page open after it has sent the data to the browser.
There is no good solution for capturing the time viewing a report. You also cannot tell if the user is still looking at the report or if they have opened another browser tab...
opejoseph wrote:
But my main question is, why does the execution log table shows that users view reports in 1, 3 seconds? Is that time not too short to even load a report, talkless filtering visualizations.
This is because the server sends the report metadata for Power BI Reports to the user's browser and the rendering then happens in the browser and the server is unaware of how long the user has the report page open after it has sent the data to the browser.
There is no good solution for capturing the time viewing a report. You also cannot tell if the user is still looking at the report or if they have opened another browser tab...
safe to say we can only capture what the usage will be like but not exactly what it is right?