Audit history on workspace?

[RichHead1821]

Background: We've suddenly experienced some slow refreshes and I was asked by our IT Ops team "has anything changed"

Aside from my own log of the changes I have made, is there any way on the workspace of seeing when a dataflow was last amended (and by whom) and similarly when a dataset (PBIX) was last amended, or published (and by whom)?

[RichHead1821]

Thanks Stuart, whilst I can't access the admin portal myself, it's helpful to know there is a log somewhere.

[Burningsuit · Accepted solution]

Hi @RichHead1821 

If your Power BI administrator has enabled Audit Logging you will be able to get details of Power BI activity over the last 90 days, you could also use the REST API to get information out of the activity log.

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

For what it's worth, if you're a Pro licence only type organisation, I've seen a number of issues with slow refreshes recently. This may be Microsoft re-configuring their servers, possibly to prepare for the February Service update. So it may be that nothings changed at your end.  However if you're a PPU or better organisation you may not experience these blips as you will be using a dedicated capacity, so the speed issues may be more of your own doing.

Hope this helps.

Stuart