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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/
- Comments (75)
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
This feature is vital for our use case. We're in the process of migrating users to PowerBI from a legacy system and are unable to efficiently track who looks at what reports. The biggest issue here is that unlike our legacy system PowerBI does not provide a way to bring usage data back into a database for custom usage analysis.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Report/dashboard owners also need report-level statistics.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Power BI team... This helps promote your product in our organizations. We need to know who ran which dashboard/report and when. With this we can show the value of Power BI and the usage it is getting. What you currently have is insufficient and as @venessa van gelder mentioned we have to beg cranky IT people for their help and to explain what is even available! This could even be a pre-designed dashboard you could share with us that would allow us to see usage by user, dashboard/report, and date. Thank you for your consideration!
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
This feature looks really good, is there any idea on when this will be available in Europe?
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
When will this feature be available to the rest of the world...?
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Any progress? Very usable feature!
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
once again for the BI folk this is not really accessible unless through cranky IT admin? please can we get the BI admin function sorted out
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
Whilst the functionality in this is improving, it is only covering the object creation and deletion. Far more important, is which users are running which reports, how frequently and how long is the report taking to load. It is not possible to track usage for audit or adoption management purposes without knowing which reports are being run by whom and what their experience is like. Consider the business case for expanding the availability of PowerBI (Pro) to more users in an organisation. Without knowing these key statistics, it is not possible to prove they system is even being used. Please prioritise report usage auditing. Thanks!!
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
We also need this available to PowerBI Admin users not only O365 Global Admin's or at least give the Global Admin's the ability to share the Dashboard with a PowerBI Admin user to appear in their workspace.
RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)
I agree. It seems crazy that we can provide access to company data without being able to monitor the activity this generates.