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sb991986
Helper I
Helper I

Get Activity Events API doesn't return activities when acitivity exist

Admin API - Get Activity Events (GET https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/activityevents) doesn't return data when activity data exists in the audit log.

 

When using "Admin - Get Activity Events" API it doesn't return data for dates in the past few days.

 

Example (The same user has been used and is a Power BI Administrator):

 

Doesn't return data via API (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/getactivityevents#code-try-0

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sb991986
Helper I
Helper I

We found that the activity events power bi log data has been deleted as part of Power BI planned maintenece activity by Microsoft. So, that's why the API is not fetching prior days data after the maintenence.

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Hi @sb991986 ,

 

It seems that the issue has been resolved. So please kindly Accept your post as the solution to make the thread closed. More people will benefit from it.

 

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sb991986
Helper I
Helper I

We found that the activity events power bi log data has been deleted as part of Power BI planned maintenece activity by Microsoft. So, that's why the API is not fetching prior days data after the maintenence.

Hy, good day .

I have a query regarding get activity events REST API.

When I am hitting this API then as a result why some of the activity status is showing blank and only some of them are succeed ..same goes for activity result as well .

arvindsingh802
Super User
Super User

reduce your time frame as each request only return 5000-10000 records

Introducing the Power BI Activity Log | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

 

To test you can pull data for 3 hours only

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution, Appreciate your Kudos!


If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution, Appreciate your Kudos!!
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I have reduce the time frame to1 hour but it is still fetching empty rows. Any idea?

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