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Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices Learn practical techniques for building high-speed Power BI solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835082256
Length 346 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas LeBlanc Thomas LeBlanc
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Bhavik Merchant Bhavik Merchant
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Architecture, Bottlenecks, and Performance Targets FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Setting Targets and Identifying Problem Areas 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Power BI Architecture and Configuration 4. Chapter 3: Learning the Tools for Performance Tuning 5. Part 2: Performance Analysis, Improvement, and Management
6. Chapter 4: Analyzing Logs and Metrics 7. Chapter 5: Optimization for Storage Modes 8. Chapter 6: Third-Party Utilities 9. Chapter 7: Performance Governance Framework 10. Part 3: Fetching, Transforming, and Visualizing Data
11. Chapter 8: Loading, Transforming, and Refreshing Data 12. Chapter 9: Report and Dashboard Design 13. Part 4: Data Models, Calculations, and Large Semantic Models
14. Chapter 10: Dimensional Modeling and Row Level Security 15. Chapter 11: Improving DAX 16. Chapter 12: High Scale Patterns 17. Part 5: Optimizing Capacities in Power BI Enterprises
18. Chapter 13: Working with Capacities 19. Chapter 14: Performance Needs for Fabric Artifacts 20. Chapter 15: Embedding in Web Apps 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using performance metrics reports

To implement the performance management cycle, administrators will need to be able to see metrics about the service and capacities. Initially, we will want to see report performance and then proceed to background activities such as semantic model refreshes. These provide the basic monitoring functionality to start pro-actively responding to issues. It also provides a view into activities of users interacting with the system.

Let’s look at the metrics for reports.

Usage metrics report

If end users are complaining about the speed of reports, the first area to examine is a usage metric report. This canned report can give insights into the performance of reports in a specific workspace. The underlying semantic model for the usage report is controlled by the Power BI service and cannot be changed by any administrator. You can, however, connect to the semantic model to build your own reports or extract information for your own reporting.

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