Explore Power BI

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Power BI is beneficial for creating business-centric dashboards and reports analyzing long-term KPI trends.

You can import the results of a log query into a Power BI dataset to take advantage of its features, such as combining data from different sources and sharing reports on the web and mobile devices.

Screenshot of a Power BI report for IT Operations focusing CPU utilization.

Advantages

  • Rich visualizations.
  • Extensive interactivity, including zoom-in and cross-filtering.
  • Easy to share throughout your organization.
  • Integration with other data from multiple data sources.
  • Better performance with results cached in a cube.

Limitations

  • It supports logs but not metrics.
  • No Azure RM integration. Can't manage dashboards and models through Azure Resource Manager.
  • Need to import query results need into the Power BI model to configure. Limitation on result size and refresh.

For more details about limitations, see Limitations of Power BI Q&A - Power BI.