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JasperBaert
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4 years ago
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Activity Logs - Are changes to datasets from External Tools visible in the Activity Logs?

Dear Community,

I have been using ALM Toolkit & Tabular editor for doing metadata changes to my model.
For Compliance reasons we need to track any changes made to the model.

I am not able to make the meta-data changes visible in the activity logs, although there is an operation called:

Edited Power BI dataset from external app or EditDatasetFromExternalApplication

I have not seen above activity coming through or any related operation...

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Jasper Baert

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  • JasperBaert's avatar
    JasperBaert
    4 years ago

    Hi, v-janeyg-msft 

    Thanks for the info. It is indeed true that EditDatasetFromExternalApplication is getting external tool events.
    Although possible to get those activities en link them to the DatasetId. It is not possible FTM to get those activities from "Get Activity" Rest API's. Only AUDIT LOGS can get these ExternalApplication changes.

    Kind Regards
    Jasper Baert


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  • v-janeyg-msft's avatar
    v-janeyg-msft
    Community Support
    4 years ago

    Hi, JasperBaert 

     

    You can see that there may be a 48-hour delay. And you can use audit logs to monitor the operation on the powerbi service, if it is desktop, there is no way to monitor it.

    Reference:Track user activities in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

     

    Did I answer your question? Please mark my reply as solution. Thank you very much.
    If not, please feel free to ask me.

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Janey

  • JasperBaert's avatar
    JasperBaert
    Helper I
    4 years ago

    Hi, v-janeyg-msft 

    Thanks for the info. It is indeed true that EditDatasetFromExternalApplication is getting external tool events.
    Although possible to get those activities en link them to the DatasetId. It is not possible FTM to get those activities from "Get Activity" Rest API's. Only AUDIT LOGS can get these ExternalApplication changes.

    Kind Regards
    Jasper Baert