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Usage Monitor Desktop > Online

Dear reader,   For a research im doing within a relatively big company, I'm trying to advice the company on how to setup their Self-Service (BI) strategy. During this research I've hit a point wher...
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  • KBO's avatar
    KBO
    6 years ago
    Hi, yes you can monitor some activities but not all. If you look into the protection centre in o365 under activities (power bi) than you have a lot of activities to monitor. May be you go first there and look what is possible ;). Best, Kathrin
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    v-lionel-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    "So can they check used measures, data source(s), changes made to a report,  etc... "

    There are roughly two types of data that you want to monitor. One is operations on datasets, reports, and dashboards, and the other is data and data sources.

    1. How to monitor the first type of information?

    Admin portal -> Usage metrics/Audit logs

    What is Power BI administration? 

    Track user activities in Power BI 

    2. How to monitor the second type of information?

    PBI itself does not have such a tool that allows administrators to view all datasets and data sources in the organization.(Unless the data is shared.)

    Maybe you can check the logs of the gateway cluster.

    Manage on-premises data gateway high-availability clusters and load balancing 

    Configure log files for the on-premises data gateway 

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    Thanks Kathrin for the swift reply!

     

    That's the post I had already seen and mostly read. Though I couldn't make up if those functionalities also worked when a desktop report was published to Power BI service. I figured maybe that would only work for products made in the online environment. Could you confirm it works for Power BI desktop reports?

     

    That'd be wonderful!

    Thanks you so much,

    Daniël

    • KBO's avatar
      KBO
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      6 years ago
      Hi, no. The Power BI desktop is only the building tool :). There you can't monitor. Best, Kathrin
      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        6 years ago
        KBO wrote:
        Hi, no. The Power BI desktop is only the building tool :). There you can't monitor. Best, Kathrin

        Sorry, maybe I phrased it wrong.

        What im asking is, if an end-user builds in the desktop version and publishes it to Power BI online service, would IT be able to monitor those reports? So can they check used measures, data source(s), changes made to a report,  etc... That's the information the IT department is after, which so far can only be found when they share the .pbix file between end-user <> IT.  It would be far more easy if that information could be monitored online.

         

        Thanks,

        Daniël