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Usage metrics for Power BI apps

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Sirui Sun on 02 Jun 2017 00:46:31

Augment the existing usage metrics feature to make it easier to see usage metrics for a Power BI app - e.g. total views/viewers for the App.

Notice that this is _already possible_ with the existing usage metrics, via customization of the pre-built report. More details in the documentation here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-usage-metrics/

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Alan on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:02

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

Are there any good workarounds for this? I read the docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-usage-metrics and saw some references to other tools but we don't have Azure and etc.... In some ways I don't need the statics on the app. but the report in the app. Things appear to show only when you access the report directly and not through the app.

If there is not a workaround is there a time frame?

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Kim S. on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:58

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

WOW, Microsoft is pushing us down the APP direction but there is not Usage Metrics for that. My people loved the usage metrics on report. Now that I am moving to an APP I can't give that to them. Is there an ETA?

I thought thought I was just missing something then found this.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:12

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

I am in the same situation as Sandfurth, I can see usage information for the Report when shared from Workspace, but data is not showing for report shared as an APP. What gets me is this is the way Microsoft wants you to do this...

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Sandfurth on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:06

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

the usage metrics report is not showing all the users. We can see the usage metrics report for the users using our reports via the workspace but not via APP. I have about 150 users who got the app installed automatically, none of them are reported although I know a they use the report.

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C. Augusto Proiete on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:15

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

Please make sure we can track views for different versions/releases of the same app. Right now you cannot tell if users have seen app v1.0 or v2.0, for example.

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JCra on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:21

RE: Usage metrics for Power BI apps

Is there currently any way that we can analyse who has viewed an app that has been created? If not then this is definitely needed!