Usage and adoption insights for tenant admins
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
May 31, 2023 |
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Business value
Power BI administrators need access to detailed historical metrics in order to monitor performance, understand usage and adoption growth, support audits, and ensure compliance within their Power BI environment.
Feature details
Dedicated workspaces for administrators will host tenant-wide historical datasets and reports to help administrators monitor and govern Power BI. This includes:
Metadata for Power BI items: a dataset of all known Power BI items (workspaces, reports, datasets, and more), regardless of whether or not those items are still active. Initially, this will include an identifier and name for key Power BI items. Each item will have additional relevant attributes, such as last modified date or name, as appropriate
Audit logs: information about asset lifecycle activities (create, access, modify, and delete). We'll provide access to some key audit log data directly through a Power BI dataset, so you won't need Microsoft 365 admin rights to view this audit data. The information will match the information available in the Power BI activity log.
Reusable standalone datasets: Audit log and metadata datasets will be available within the Admin Monitoring workspace, enabling you to leverage these resources by combining them with your own to enable customized reporting based on individual organizational scenarios.
Out-of-box feature usage and adoption reporting: Analytical views built on the audit log that can help you understand who is doing what. This allows you to better govern Power BI by identifying specific trends, patterns, and activities. For example, you may discourage direct report sharing from personal workspaces and may want to have visibility if it happens.