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Usage Monitor Desktop > Online
- 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
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 ChenIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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 wrote:
Hi, no. The Power BI desktop is only the building tool :). There you can't monitor. Best, KathrinSorry, 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
- 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
- Hi, first you must activate this in the admin Portal- tenant settings 🙂 after that you can track activities. Best, Kathrin
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 ChenIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.