Programmatically Determine Visualisation Errors Via API (Not UI)

[AE_JHI]

Hi Power BI Community,

Background: I have been tasked with coming up with an automated smoke test to ensure that all Visuals function without failure, post updates to a centralised data source / model.

Scenario: A field has been renamed and the model re-loaded, which causes a generic error to be presented on the report UI: "X Can't display the visual. See details... Couldn't load the data for this visual"

Objective: Without running some sort of UI automation (e.g. Selenium), is there a way for this error to be captured via the Rest API or some other method?

I have tried hitting a number of the API endpoints to see if some sort of failure occurs, but no luck so far - these being:

.../datasets/.../datasources
.../reports/.../pages/ReportSection

From the Rest API documentation I don’t see any way of interacting with the actual Visuals for a given report and page.

Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated.

[v-kkf-msft]

Hi @AE_JHI ,

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As you can see in Power BI REST APIs , I think you can only export the data from the visuals, not the error message of the visuals.

Best Regards,
Winniz