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Suman250585
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Power BI Usage Metrics and Access Tracking

Hi Team,

I need your support regarding the usage metrics.

In Power BI Service, the usage metrics currently show only the last 30 days of data, but we would like to view usage for all months. Is there any option in Power BI Service to get usage metrics data for multiple months?

We are using Pro licences.

Thanks and regards,

Suman

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  • No, the built-in Usage Metrics report in Power BI Service cannot show more than 30 days. That limit is by design and cannot be extended, regardless of Pro or Premium.

     

    Alternative 1) Use the Power BI REST API 

    Microsoft’s Activity Events / Admin APIs allow you to collect report views, dashboard views, dataset refreshes, user, workspace, timestamp. You canp ull data daily, store it (SQL, SharePoint, Fabric, etc.), build a custom usage model with unlimited history.

     

    Alternative 2)  FUAM (Fabric Unified Audit Model)

    FUAM is Microsoft’s new unified audit and activity model for Power BI and Fabric. UAM exposes detailed user and artifact activity events (report views, dataset usage, refreshes, etc.)

    https://github.com/GT-Analytics/fuam-basic 

  • Hi Suman250585

    there exists another post regarding this topic here Solved: Usage Metrics - how to get more than 30 days of da... - Microsoft Fabric Community.

     

    Recap, with this report it is not possible to get more than 30 days.

     

    One workaround I could imagine considering PBI Pro license as a constraint is to manually export monthly data and put them as historical data into a semantic model. More advanced with potential for automation would be to use activitiy log API.

    If you have access to Fabric and a capacity I recommend using the FUAM app.

     

    Best regards!

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  • Hi Mauro,

    Thanks for sharing the updates.

    Could you please suggest how we can implement this workaround with a step‑by‑step procedure, and share any relevant links or documentation to achieve it?

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    Hi Suman250585,

     

    Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

     

    Thank you Mauro89 and cengizhanarslan for the prompt response. 

     

    As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided by the user's for the issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance.

     

    Thanks and regards,

    Anjan Kumar Chippa

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      Hi @Suman250585,

       

      We wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided by the user's for the issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance.

       

      Thanks and regards,

      Anjan Kumar Chippa