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Hi,
We are are developing a new Self Service system using Power BI in my company. Basically, my team creates the datasets and metrics, and the business teams does the reports and Dashboards.
Most of the users are getting the dataset access through the app that we have made public. Some of the users are building this reports in their own Personal workspaces (since most of them don't have a pro account), and others are using workspaces they've created, which we don't have direct access. It's also possible to connect to the dataset through the Power BI Desktop.
All of this ways to access the datasets are perfectly fine for us. The problem is that we haven't find a way to measure the dataset usage, since the actual Power BI usage report are made for reports and not datasets. Right now, we are able to see the name of all the reports that are connected to the datasets, but nothing more.
It would be very important to us to answer questions like: How many users are connected? Which users are connected? How many queryes are beeing made? How many reports do we have? Which is the most used? Even if the user doesn't save his dashboard in a workspace, because he was only doing a exploratory work on Service, how do we measure that?
We are trying to use the API to solve this problem, but I don't know if it solves the problem.
Any help would be very helpful!
Thank you all!
Hi @gmaciel ,
As far as i know, Azure REST API might help you, please check the documnets below.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apimanagement/2019-01-01/reports/listbyuser.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apimanagement/2019-01-01/user/listbyservice.
Best Regards,
Jay
Community Support Team _ Jay Wang
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