How to extract data from the Fabric Metrics App – Part 2
In this mini series I’m walking you through how to extract data from the Fabric Metrics App to, for example, create a monthly chargeback report based on it. In my last blog post, I showed how to trace the required DAX Statement. In the second part, I will show how we can use Microsoft Fabric…
How to extract data from the Fabric Metrics App – Part 1
In recent discussions with my customers about Microsoft Fabric, the questions pops up how to create an internal and fair charge-back mechanism. There are different possibilities, from user-based, item-based, or usage-based scenarios, which you can leverage. From my point of view, the usage-based model would be the fairest one. In such a scenario, creators of…
How to get automatically notified about new Tenant Settings
From time to time I got asked how Fabric admins can automatically get notified if a new Tenant Setting appear as they don’t wish to manually check the UI on a regular base. Even with the new “New” indicator, it’s still a manual process. Luckily, back in May 2023, we introduced a GetTenantSettings API which…
Export Power BI Reports as PDF via REST API
It’s been a while since my last post as a lot is going on and I had the pleasure to realize some really interesting projects in the past. One of them was to use the Power BI REST API to download Power BI Paginated Reports as PDF locally to a PC. And this is exactly…
Use Dynamic M Parameters in DirectQuery mode and Paginated Reports
Recently, I got a very interesting challenge from a customer of mine. In their use case, they have created a Power BI Report (and Dataset) in DirectQuery mode. On top, they have created a Paginated Report on the same Dataset, and integrated the pixel-perfect report through the out-of-the-box Paginated Report visual. Lastly, to improve performance,…
Track Power BI Capacity overloaders with Power Automate
Note from PBI Guy: A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet Manel Omani, a colleague of mine, who presented a super interesting solution how she’s tracking Power BI Capacity overloaders via Power Automate and notify automatically the Dataset owner. I thought this has to be shared with the Power BI community and…
Starting a job after a Power BI dataset has refreshed
This blog post is a little bit special to me as the whole idea and text is not coming from myself but from my good friends Dirk Gubbels, Principal Consultant at Microsoft, and Gabi Münster, Fabric CAT/Senior Program Manager as well at Microsoft. They approached me asking if I would be willing to share the…
Create a POST request with Power BI
In my last post, I showed how you can connect to a REST API with Power BI by using a Service Principal. After that, I got quite a lot of comments and questions if it would be possible to also create a POST request with Power BI, not only a GET one. First, I thought…
Connect with Power BI to the Power BI REST API with a Service Principal
As you probably know the Power BI REST API is a very handy interface to extract information in an automatic way. I showed already in different posts how to use e.g. Python and Power Automate to achieve various things (see https://pbi-guy.com/tag/power-bi-rest-api/). But did you know you can also connect with Power BI to the REST…
Create a custom partition in Power BI and trigger a refresh with Python
Working with large datasets I almost always get the question if an incremental refresh can be configured within Power BI and yes, this is possible as described here. Especially if you have a date or datetime column it makes sense to set up an incremental refresh to reduce your dataset refresh time. Once set up,…
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