Command Center¶
The Command Center dashboard is the landing page of Power BI Usage: tenant inventory, refresh health and the shape of activity for the selected range on one screen.
Open it¶
Open /web/pbiusage/ (see Enable the Dashboards). Command Center is the default page; to return to it choose Select Analysis > Command Center.
Image of the Command Center dashboard for a 7-day range: the six KPI cards, Daily Platform Activity, Top 10 Operations, Capacity Fleet, Top 10 Workspaces by Activity and Platform Intelligence
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Common controls¶
These controls work the same on every Power BI Usage dashboard except Capacity, which has its own period selector.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Select Analysis | Menu of the dashboards: Command Center, User Activity, System Load, Content Health, Semantic Models, Datasources, Governance, Users & Licenses, Executive, Capacity Metrics. |
| Range | From and to dates (UTC), or a preset: 48h, 7d, 14d, 30d. Default: the last 7 days. At most 92 days. |
| Environments | One check box per Power BI environment. All are included by default. |
| Capacities | Drop-down labelled Capacities: All. Pick capacities per environment (name, SKU and workspace count), plus two special buckets: (No capacity) for shared-capacity workspaces and (Unattributed events) for activity with no workspace link. |
| LIVE | Age of the newest activity event. See Data Freshness. |
Your choices are kept in the page address, so a bookmark or a shared link reopens the same view.
Image of the filter bar: Range date pickers with the 7d preset active, two environment check boxes, and the open Capacities drop-down showing capacities with SKU and ws count, and the Special group
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Drill down and export¶
Most numbers, bars and table cells are clickable. A click opens a drawer on the right with the rows behind the number.
| In the drawer | What it does |
|---|---|
| Breadcrumb (Drill path) | Each further click adds a level; click an earlier level to go back. Close or ++escape++ closes the drawer. |
| Find in drawer | Highlights matches; Previous match, Next match, Clear find. |
| Column headers | Click to sort. |
| Download | "Download all rows behind this drawer as CSV for Excel": every row, not only the rows shown, up to 50,000 rows (web.apps.pbiusage.export.max.rows). |
| Open links | "Open in the Power BI portal" opens the item in the Power BI service (web.apps.pbiusage.portal.base, default https://app.powerbi.com). |
The drawer lists the first 200 rows and says "Showing the first 200 rows (server limit); narrow the scope to see the rest." Use Download for the full list.
Image of a detail drawer: breadcrumb with two levels, Download button, Find in drawer box, sortable table with an Open link column
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KPI cards¶
| Card | What it shows | Click |
|---|---|---|
| Workspaces | Workspaces in the selected environments ("total in scope envs") | - |
| Reports | Reports in scope, with the number "viewed in range" | The viewed count opens Reports Viewed |
| Datasets | "Refreshable semantic models" in scope | - |
| Peak Daily Users | "distinct users, peak day": the highest number of distinct identities active on one day | - |
| Refreshes | Dataset refreshes in the range, with "n failed in range" | - |
| Refresh Success | Completed refreshes as a percentage of attempted ones. Shown as good from 95 percent. | - |
While the activity summaries are still being prepared, the cards show "pending data prep" or "views pending data prep".
Panels¶
| Panel | What it shows | Click |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Platform Activity | Event volume per day by operation, stacked for the top operations plus Other (UTC) | A day opens Day Activity: the operations behind that day |
| Top 10 Operations | The ten most frequent operations (for example ViewReport) in scope |
An operation opens Operation Workspaces: the workspaces producing it |
| Capacity Fleet | Workspaces by capacity tier: Fabric F-SKU, Premium PPU (P SKUs), Trial FTL, No capacity, with a per-SKU list | - |
| Top 10 Workspaces by Activity | Workspaces with the most events. Only events linked to a workspace count; a note gives the share without a workspace link. | A workspace opens Workspace Activity |
| Platform Intelligence | Short findings derived from the current scope (below) | - |
Platform Intelligence findings¶
| Tag | Appears when | Example text |
|---|---|---|
| SCANNER | Automated scanner and admin API traffic is half or more of all events | "Automated scanner/API traffic is 62% of events in range." |
| VIEWS | View operations are 40 percent or more of events | "Report consumption leads: 48% of events are view operations." |
| ATTRIB | Always, when there is activity | "91% of events resolve to a known workspace; ..." |
| STALE | Reports had zero views in the range | "120 of 800 reports (15%) had zero views in this window." |
| HEALTH / RISK | Refreshes ran in the range. HEALTH at 95 percent success or more, RISK below. | "1,204 refreshes at 97% success. 36 failed." |
| USERS | Identities were active | "412 distinct identities in range; peak single day 220. Includes service principals." |
Service principals count as identities
User counts include service principals and MetaMiner's own collection account. The Activity page separates members, service accounts, system identities and the MetaMiner scanner.
Questions this page answers¶
- How big is the tenant, and how much of the report estate was viewed in the period?
- Are refreshes healthy overall?
- Which operations and workspaces drive the activity, and on which days?
- How are workspaces spread across Fabric, Premium Per User, trial and shared capacity?