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svenchio
Super User
3 months ago
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Report usage metrics

Dear community members, I would like to "pick your brain" on the topic of "Power BI reports usage", the scenario is as follow, we just receive a mandate to understand and document how reports are use...
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  • tayloramy's avatar
    tayloramy
    3 months ago

    Hi svenchio, 

     

    The way that I do this is using the GetActivityEvents API endpoint.  Admin - Get Activity Events - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn

     

    I pull data from this daily and store it in a lakehouse. The API only maintains 30 days of data, so storing it allows me to capture more trends. 

     

    This data will tell you about almost every action taken in Fabric, including who is viewing reports and when. 

    Once you have the data, it is quite simple to build some reporting on it to identify highly used and unused reports. 

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lbendlin
Super User
3 months ago

The safest and most efficient way is to use the scanner API to do daily JSON extracts (feel free to put these into a data lake or DWH).  The caveat is that these extracts only go down to report level, not report page level.