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Scorecard viewership / usage metrics
Each month, I look at the number of views my PowerBi reports are receiving through the "View Usage Metrics" functionality. A year or so ago, I implemented some Scorecards in PowerBi. These Scorecards each pull metrics from multiple reports.
I need to understand how many views these scorecards are receiving, but to date I haven't been able to find a way to access this information.
Does PowerBi track scorecard usage metrics? If so, how do I access that data? If not, are there any future plans to implement this functionality? It seems this should be very basic functionality, yet I haven't found a way to access it yet.
Hi, MattBossert
As of the last update, Power BI doesn't have a direct built-in feature specifically for tracking scorecard usage metrics, similar to the functionality available for reports. The "View usage metrics" feature you mentioned is mainly used for reports and dashboards.
Although there is no direct capability for scorecard usage metrics, you can consider workarounds by monitoring the usage of the underlying reports and dashboards in the scorecard. This approach isn't perfect, but it provides an indirect insight into how often the scorecard data is accessed. For detailed steps to access usage metrics for reports, you can refer to the following documentation:
Monitor report usage metrics - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Regarding future enhancements, Power BI is constantly evolving, and the team is always working to add new features based on user feedback. While the specifics of Scorecard's upcoming features, including the use of metric tracking, are not always disclosed in advance, plans to enhance metric-level permissions and full row-level security (RLS) support in future updates are mentioned. This suggests that the scorecard field is evolving and may eventually include the use of metrics. Links to documentation for more information about setting permissions that may imply future direction for the scorecard:
Protect your scorecards with metric-level permissions - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
You can also suggest new features you want to the community, here is the link to Ideas:
How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly
Best Regards
Yongkang Hua
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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Hi, MattBossert
As of the last update, Power BI doesn't have a direct built-in feature specifically for tracking scorecard usage metrics, similar to the functionality available for reports. The "View usage metrics" feature you mentioned is mainly used for reports and dashboards.
Although there is no direct capability for scorecard usage metrics, you can consider workarounds by monitoring the usage of the underlying reports and dashboards in the scorecard. This approach isn't perfect, but it provides an indirect insight into how often the scorecard data is accessed. For detailed steps to access usage metrics for reports, you can refer to the following documentation:
Monitor report usage metrics - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Regarding future enhancements, Power BI is constantly evolving, and the team is always working to add new features based on user feedback. While the specifics of Scorecard's upcoming features, including the use of metric tracking, are not always disclosed in advance, plans to enhance metric-level permissions and full row-level security (RLS) support in future updates are mentioned. This suggests that the scorecard field is evolving and may eventually include the use of metrics. Links to documentation for more information about setting permissions that may imply future direction for the scorecard:
Protect your scorecards with metric-level permissions - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
You can also suggest new features you want to the community, here is the link to Ideas:
How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly
Best Regards
Yongkang Hua
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
