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Premium Capacity - Monitoring Capacity utilization by Dataset
The Premium Capacity Metrics App uses datasets like any other app. You can connect to these datasets from your own Power BI Desktop instance, for example, if you have been given workspace access. (Note: For a variety of reasons you will not want to place the Premium Capacity Metrics App onto a Premium Capacity !)
What I am trying to say though is that you will find that the Capacity Metrics app is rather useless if you are serious about optimizing your capacity utilization and load balancing. The audit logs are much more meaningful and provide actionable information. At the end of the day the single most important KPI is render duration. (with Gen 2 memory pressure and evictions are becoming less of an issue)
When you have installed the Power BI Premium Metrics app, you could enter the app, click the ellipsis > See related content to find its dataset. Then you could click Create report icon to build your own report based on the CapacityMetrics dataset. You could also get it in Power BI Desktop through Get data > Power BI datasets.
Additionally, here is an article that describes common issues and challenges with Power BI premium capacities and also how to identify and help solve them:
Microsoft Power BI Premium capacity scenarios - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Community Support Team _ Jing Zhang
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You are looking for the Audit log extracts. They give you duration of data source refresh, frequency of refresh, dataset size and utilization. Usually you take the logs, stuff them into dataflows (since they are CSV anyway) and then create your reports against them, similar to this:
Thanks for your quick response. The Audit Log will provide Usage Trend, Refresh frequency, etc as you have rightly pointed out.
I'm looking for access to the underlying data for the Premium Capacity Metrics App and how the CPU & Memory utilization (which it currently provides at the Premium Capacity level) drilled down to the Dataset level -- so that insights into the CPU utilization, Active Memory utilization, etc by each of the Datasets deployed in the Premium Workspace can be analyzed.
The Premium Capacity Metrics App uses datasets like any other app. You can connect to these datasets from your own Power BI Desktop instance, for example, if you have been given workspace access. (Note: For a variety of reasons you will not want to place the Premium Capacity Metrics App onto a Premium Capacity !)
What I am trying to say though is that you will find that the Capacity Metrics app is rather useless if you are serious about optimizing your capacity utilization and load balancing. The audit logs are much more meaningful and provide actionable information. At the end of the day the single most important KPI is render duration. (with Gen 2 memory pressure and evictions are becoming less of an issue)