Operating Power BI at Scale

A presentation about operational concerns and resources to address these in Power BI

Brent Lightsey

16 Aug 2023 — 1 min read

Presentation on Power BI operations

Greg Baldini of Power BI Ops shares tools for Refresh Monitoring, User Activity, and Data Lineage. You will learn about how to use the built-in tools in Power BI as well as open source and off-the-shelf options for Power BI Operations at Scale.

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Measuring Power BI's Impact on your Data Sources: Refresh Concurrency

One of the most resource-intensive operations performed by Power BI is refreshing datasets. Each dataset can use multiple data sources, for example, your data warehouse or a SQL Server. It's important to monitor the load on these sources as well.

Power BI Problems

Even great tools have problems. Power BI is a great tool, but it is not perfect. In this article, Brent and Greg discuss some common problems and challenges in Power BI.

How can I automate usage metrics without Admin APIs?

A guest post by Štěpán Rešl describing an approach to automated collection of Usage Metrics across many workspaces, without using the Admin APIs. This is highlighting a free solution that Štěpán has created to automate this workflow.

How can I see all Power BI usage? (Part 2)

In Part 1, we covered options for pulling usage reports without interacting with an API. In this article, we will cover advanced techniques for pulling and storing Power BI user activity.

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Measuring Power BI's Impact on your Data Sources: Refresh Concurrency

Power BI Problems

How can I automate usage metrics without Admin APIs?

How can I see all Power BI usage? (Part 2)