O365 Audit Logs - What Activities require a Pro license?

[Anonymous]

My goal is to understand how employees of our company are using Power BI.  A specific example is I want to see if the Users who have been assigned Power BI Pro licenses are actually using Pro features.  I know how to get a list of Pro users through PowerShell, so that's all set.

I had a co-worker extract O365 Audit Logs with Activities related to Power BI.*

When I pull the audit logs data into Power BI, I have a bunch of Activities such as ViewReport, ViewDashboard, CreateReport, CreateDataset, etc.  Is there a mapping of which of those Activities require a Pro license?  Or is there another field aside from Activity which would be better?

*Hopefully the Get-PowerBIActivityEvents PowerShell cmdlet will be working soon, so I don't have to go through this.

[v-lid-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Based on this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-admin-auditing#use-powershell-to-export-audit-logs

If we do not consider the premium license, the following should use pro license:

• AddGroupMembers
• AnalyzedByExternalApplication
• AnalyzeInExcel
• AttachedDataflowStorageAccount
• CancelDataflowRefresh
• CreateApp
• CreateOrgApp
• CreateDataflow
• CreateGroup
• InstallApp
• ShareDashboard
• ShareReport
• UpdateApp
• UpdateDataflow
• UpdateEmailSubscription
• CreateEmailSubscription

And some other activities depends to the actual situation, such as view dashboard/report depends on if the dashboard/report is shared by others, and create depends on if it is in app workspace.

Sorry in advance if we miss some activity which may need pro license.

Best regards,

[Gustavo_Fig]

Hello!

And what about "CreateReport" event? This action was enable only for PBI PRO users?
May I add this on your list of PBI PRO activities?

Because I need to filter what activities are from PBI PRO users.

Thanks in advance.

Gustavo

[agowinuk]

Could you add an update to this to indicate which activity types require a Power BI Pro licence when working with a Premium Capacity?