Best Practices for Automating Power BI Dataset Refresh and Monitoring Failures
Hi everyone, I'm exploring different approaches to managing automated semantic model refreshes and monitoring failures across multiple Power BI workspaces. For organizations managing several reports and data sources, maintaining reliable refresh schedules and identifying failures can become challenging as the environment grows. I'm particularly interested in how teams are approaching the following: Are you primarily using Power BI's native scheduled refresh capabilities, Power Automate, or REST APIs for refresh orchestration? How are you implementing centralized monitoring and automated notifications when refreshes fail? What strategies work best for handling refresh dependencies and retries without triggering duplicate executions? Are there recommended approaches for integrating Power BI refresh monitoring with existing enterprise automation workflows? I'm interested in understanding which approaches are most practical for environments with multiple workspaces, particularly when reliability, maintainability, and operational visibility are priorities. Would appreciate any recommendations, architecture patterns, or real-world implementation experiences. Thanks in advance!Select Entire Hierarchies in Power BI Personalize Visuals
Feature Request: Select Entire Hierarchies in Power BI Personalize Visuals Hi Power BI Team, I'd like to suggest an enhancement to Personalize Visuals that allows users to select an entire hierarchy from a semantic model instead of adding each level individually. For example, my semantic model contains this hierarchy: Responsible Division Hierarchy Responsible Division Responsible Cost Center Currently, when users open Personalize this visual, Power BI correctly displays the hierarchy in the field picker. However, selecting the parent hierarchy does not add the complete hierarchy to the visual. Users must expand it and add each level individually in the correct order. Expected Behavior Users should be able to select Responsible Division Hierarchy and have Power BI automatically add the complete hierarchy to the visual, preserving the order defined in the semantic model. Individual hierarchy levels should remain selectable for users who only want a specific field. Why This Matters Personalize Visuals is designed to enable self-service reporting without requiring report editing permissions. Requiring users to manually reconstruct existing hierarchies creates unnecessary friction and assumes they understand the underlying data model. Since the hierarchy is already defined in the semantic model and recognized by the field picker, Power BI should leverage that metadata. Suggested Enhancement Allow users to select either: The parent hierarchy to add the complete hierarchy in its predefined order. An individual hierarchy level to add only that field. This would make Personalize Visuals more intuitive for business users while preserving flexibility for advanced users. Thanks for considering this enhancement!
