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James Snowball on 01 Jun 2015 23:54:08

Provide analysis of how our Power BI dashboards/reports are being used:

Hit count, Q&A queries ran, filters applied, common actions etc.

This would allow us to track the importance and use of our reporting and see how different users interact with the data.

Administrator on 02 Jun 2017 01:06:36

Hello everyone! I'm an excited to announce Power BI usage metrics for content creators! This release allows you to see the metrics for the dashboards and reports that you've created, without the need for O365/Power BI admin privileges. To learn more: > Announcement: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/measure-and-magnify-your-impact-with-usage-metrics-for-dashboard-and-report-authors > Documentation: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-usage-metrics/ With this release, we are resolving this item as done. However, we are planning on iterating on the v1 functionality in the months to come. We’ve created the following UserVoice items for these improvements. Please cast your vote below to help us prioritize our investments going forward: > Usage metrics show the exact e-mail address/names of users who access dashboards/reports https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19469269-show-email-address-or-user-name-in-usage-metrics-f > Dataset usage metrics https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19469302-dataset-usage-metrics-for-content-creators > Usage metrics for Power BI apps https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19469335-usage-metrics-for-power-bi-apps > Usage metrics contains data for >90 days https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19469353-maintain-dashboard-report-usage-metrics-data-for > Improve usage metrics performance https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19469380-improve-dashboard-report-usage-metrics-report-perf > Usage metrics programmatic access https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/14817480-usage-statistics-via-rest

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José Ramon Carias on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:43

RE: Power BI usage statistics

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Melanie Greenslade on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:23

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Is it possible to have a limited version of this available to non-Pro users? Just number of views would be enough.

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Madan on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:46

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Is it possible for me (admin) to access these details in a web service using my credentials?

At present, I can pin the usage report to a dashboard and subscribe weekly report in an email, but if it is an app, users can also view this stat which is not desirable.

I had rather like to create a separate dashboard/ report that can access data from the reports that I want from one or more workspaces and pull in the required information

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:02:50

RE: Power BI usage statistics

This is great. Very useful but I'd really like to know owners of top 10 dashboards and the names of the dashboards in our domains. Someone may have created a great dashboard but I don't have visibility of it. Plus I need to know who is beating me ;-)

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:07

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Should also add a feature where it can show when a user last logged in to PowerBI itself, not just a specific report/dashboard.

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Soren Soren on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:07

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Great feature and gives a good overview.
However as other users have also commented for certain reports it would be beneficial to know who the users are.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:54

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Could there also be usage metrics for Excelreports?

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UK TJ on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:51

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Good Job guys

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Atanas on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:51

RE: Power BI usage statistics

Great feature, it seems, however, it does not give me the full list of persons viewing but only the total count. Since the dashboard is used by multiple teams, we would like to see who actually uses it often. Is this possible with the current capabilities?

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David Heimerling on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:50

RE: Power BI usage statistics

it would be great if we could have 1 dashboard for multiple reports across workspaces.