Manage your Power BI service with the PBI Management Report
Power BI Management Report dashboard
As organisations continue to embrace data-driven decision-making, Power BI has become a leading tool for creating and sharing interactive visualisations and reports. Power BI allows users to connect to various data sources, create visually appealing reports, and share them with others. To manage and monitor Power BI deployments effectively, Power BI administrators need access to key metrics and insights. The Power BI Metadata API is a powerful tool that provides administrators with a wealth of information about their Power BI environment. In this article, we will explore how administrators can leverage the Flock Power BI Management Report to administer their Power Bi environment.
What is the Power BI Metadata API?
The Power BI Metadata API is a REST API that allows users to access to the metadata of Power BI artifacts such as reports, dashboards, datasets, and dataflows. It provides detailed information about the structure and content of these artifacts, including their properties, relationships, and dependencies. With the Power BI Management Report we extract a wide range of information about your Power BI environment, such as the number of reports, the data sources used in the reports, the data refresh schedules, and the usage statistics of reports and dashboards.
The Power BI Management Report
The Power BI Management Report provides valuable insights to administrators, enabling them to monitor the health and performance of your Power BI environment, identify potential issues, and optimise resource utilisation.
Here are some examples metrics contained in the Flock Power BI Management Report:
1. Report Inventory: Administrators can analyse a report inventory that lists all the reports in their Power BI environment. This inventory includes information such as report name, report owner, report creation date, last modified date, and report usage statistics. This report helps administrators keep track of the reports in their environment, identify unused or redundant reports, and monitor report usage patterns.
2. Data Source Usage: This allows administrators to access information about the data sources used in reports and dashboards. Administrators can get insights into data source usage, such as the number of reports using a particular data source, the refresh frequency of data sources, and the last refresh time of data sources. This information can help administrators identify data sources that are heavily used or underutilised, and optimise data source refresh schedules.
3. Dataset Health: Administrators can leverage the Power BI Management Report to monitor the health and performance of datasets. This can include information such as dataset refresh success rate, refresh duration, and refresh errors. By monitoring dataset health, administrators can identify datasets that are experiencing issues and take proactive measures to resolve them, ensuring that reports and dashboards are always based on up-to-date data.
4. User Activity: The Power BI Management Report provides usage statistics for reports and dashboards, allowing administrators to track user activity. This includes information such as the number of views, and interactions each report or dashboard, as well as the user engagement over time. User activity reports can help administrators understand how reports and dashboards are being used, identify popular or underutilised reports, and optimise the content and layout of reports to meet user needs.
5. Performance Monitoring: The Power BI Management Report can also be used to monitor the performance of Power BI artifacts, such as report load times, query durations, and memory usage. These reports can help administrators identify performance bottlenecks, optimise report performance, and ensure that reports and dashboards are delivering a smooth and responsive user experience.
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