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Centralized Admin View Showing Refresh Failures

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Ben on 25 Jul 2018 00:04:40

In the Power BI Service, would you consider adding an admin view that displays any recent data source refresh errors?

This could be as simple as "The last refresh of the following data sets failed: {data set name} {refresh timestamp}".

A centralized view of these failures would be helpful in proactively addressing issues as a reporting engineer when they occur in a self-service BI environment. For example, if several reports created by different self-service users start experiencing data refresh failures around the same time, a centralized view of these failures might clue me in to a data source problem. Hopefully, I could then resolve the issue before those self-service BI users email me about the refresh failures.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:09

RE: Centralized Admin View Showing Refresh Failures

Alternatively, please allow us to specify an email address for failed scheduled refreshes. We want failure notifications sent to a group email account rather than the individual user.