Summary
Power BI offers features to support real-time analytics in Power BI reports, dashboards, and paginated reports.
You should carefully consider latency tolerances and required functionality before selecting the artifact type. Also, when working with Premium features, you should also determine whether licenses can be purchased.
In general, you should strive to deliver real-time Power BI visualizations with Power BI reports. They provide the greatest design flexibility, can be filtered, and are highly interactive. Considering creating real-time Power BI dashboards when you can’t achieve the requirements with Power BI reports, like when alerting is a requirement.