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Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

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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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435fc0a4 a61a-4b1a-a8cd-c78d62a35ae1 on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:09

RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

Please explain why the auditing feature is available for US only - don't hope you guys keep making these differences..

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cc630945 64b4-4df9-a790-6334e4a2182f on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:09

RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

Hi, is there any timeline for deploying Asia Region tenant, we are getting many requests from users wanting to see the adoption of their dashboard.

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23b2fcc3 f2fe-414c-888f-3c4de79e1dbf on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:08

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Do we have an update on this, I'd really like to be able to see how many times dashboards/reports are being accessed

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ee364cef cd2f-4509-be8a-4ca96527966b on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:08

RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

Hope that much more is coming beyond features for admins. Every user needs to know exactly who viewed their Power BI content--like LinkedIn where users can know the names of people that viewed their profile.

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d87fec37 3a80-4b59-879b-1aa854ec093e on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:04

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Do we have a release date for rest of the world. Even if it is in preview, we would like to evaluate it for user adoption.

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fb296d17 918c-41e1-81cf-4e0b02457d7b on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:01

RE: Better Auditing of User Activity (Datasets, Reports, Dashboards, Exports)

Hi Ajay,

We have a lot of customers requesting auditing capabilities for governance and usage purposes. Is this stil a US only capability and when will this be generally available?

Allan
Denmark

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e0b357d2 924a-4aa8-9d55-f79f9d059c1a on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:53

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.

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918aab8c 6fe1-4b76-98d2-4cabfd584f20 on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:45

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Report/dashboard owners also need report-level statistics.

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1fdb9686 2808-41a7-bd79-a3f88c7a5789 on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:45

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!

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24ff54c0 740a-4243-840c-f3f76152c5ec on 16 Aug 2020 03:54:44

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?