Power BI Admin Monitoring

In May of 2023, Microsoft released to Public Preview a new monitor workspace for administrators. This new workspace has two reports (as well as datasets) - Feature Usage & Adoption and Purview Hub.

Since the data comes from the Audit Logs, things like shared artifacts in My Workspace can be tracked by the admin. The data range for the datasets is just a month, so if you want more historical analysis, you will have to have a method to store the previous months data.

Feature Usage and Adoption

The first report has two sections: Activity Overview and Analysis.

Activity Overview has visuals for Total Activities, a line/bar chart over time of the activities, Active Capacities along with Most Active Operations or Users. There is a Data Range slicer for filtering.

The second tab, Analysis, has the same Date Range slicer, the line/bar chart of activities over time and a Decomposition Tree to drill into where the activities come from. I really like Decomposition Tree visual for drilling into different attributes related to a measure.

Purview Hub Insights

The second report has a lot more. It digs into the Endorsement, Sensitivity and Inventory details. It starts with an Overview of Items (artifacts) with a graph of counts plus active creators, user labels, assignments and workspaces.

There is a lot here, but your Endorse and Sensitivity reports will not have much data if these items are not being used.

This is a wonderful workspace to have for Power BI Admins. Showing the data from the Audit Logs without having to write code to import and transform goes a long way. You can connect to the datasets (from a new report or Excel) and dig into the data and start to investigate a historical storage of the data for further analysis.