PBI activity log for ConnectFromExternalApplication without information

[Mic_it]

Hi,

I'm extracting PBI logs using standard API. When it comes to operations like "ConnectFromExternalApplication" there are no information regarding the object that has been used (in particular the dataset name). The only significant information available from API are the user and the timestamp (like below).

{
"Id": "vvvvvvvv",
"RecordType": 20,
"CreationTime": "2024-11-sssssss",
"Operation": "ConnectFromExternalApplication",
"OrganizationId": "eeeeeeeee",
"UserType": 0,
"UserKey": "rrrrrrrrr",
"Workload": "PowerBI",
"UserId": "xxxxxxxxx",
"Activity": "ConnectFromExternalApplication",
"RefreshEnforcementPolicy": 0

Is anyone aware on how to get more information? Using dataset (or excel) to access Power BI data this is becoming more and more important for better understanding who is using what.

thank you for your suggestions.

Michele

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

Hi. The amount of information depends on the operation. When you ViewReport you need the information of the report or resource, but others won't be specifically asociated to one item. In this case ConnectFromExternalApp is not used for now. I think it's not storing logs. You can check the operation list here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/operation-list

You can see at the example response that each activity doesn't have the same amount of columns. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/get-activity-events

I hope that helps,