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ducky
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1 year ago
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Get-PowerBIActivityEvent vs Azure Log Analytics for Power BI

I was under the impression that these two should be giving similar information. But I was calling the Get-PowerBIActivityEvent API and i dont have a bunch of metrics that should be in the log analyti...
  • GilbertQ's avatar
    1 year ago

    Hi ducky 

     

    They are actually quite different. The Activity Events logs the events that are happening such as creating reports, viewing reports, exporting etc.


    The log Analytics is from the Power BI Analysis Services Engine which is recording things related to the engine, such as queries run, how long they ran for, refreshes on semantic models and which users are doing this.