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Under ReviewBetter Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
cbailiss on 02 Apr 2016 02:44:09
ALL user activities in Power BI should be logged for auditing purposes, including datasets accessed, reports/dashboards accessed, and especially data exports performed. The audit data should be accessible as a dataset to build reports against as well as easily exportable / downloadable.
Administrator on 16 Aug 2020 02:15:34
We released a US only preview for auditing Power BI. Read more about it here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-auditing/
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RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
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RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Any Update on this? Auditing is difficult - having to to connect via APIs etc into the report is not ideal for us.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
When will this be available in the Netherlands?
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
You should be able to use the audit log data as a source to create your own reports. Currently, all you can do is dump the log from excel. I should be able to use PowerBI to easily monitor the environment. It's great you can look at an individual dashboard, but doesn't really give an admin the level of info needed.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
This should be available as a Content Pack. The current preview for auditing is very limited and cumbersome.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Is there any plan to get this into PowerBI Embedded? Happy to create an idea if not.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
'@ajay - Can you provide an update on this?
To echo @VLJ 's comments: "Power BI needs to be able to connect to the audit data as a data source, so usage reports can be written."
You have built-in connectors for almost every dataset under the sun. I can write a Power BI report how people are using ZenDesk or Salesforce, but I can't write a report on Power BI usage itself?
Can you confirm whether the final solution will allow (1) access to plug into Power BI usage as a live dataset in "Get Data" and (2) ability to do advanced transforms on this audit data in Power Query?
I imagine this will help Power BI adoption significantly, since many BI managers are eager to show adoption trends, and use usage/adoption metrics themselves as success indicators of our Power BI investments.
Thanks so much!
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
We need to be able to audit and report on usage without needing O365 admin rights - our BI will not be given these.
Can this information be made available as a content pack / data set that we can use to create reports in PowerBI itself?
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
we need to be able to audit users without doing a manual dump from the security portal thats soo outdated relative to the integrations throughout power bi... :(