Report usage metrics: page views not capturing embedded views

[tvanbiemen]

Hi all,

After delivering a new report for a customer we are very curious on how the end users are using the report. We are mainly interested in the distribution in views between pages since this tells us which insights are the most popular. The report is embedded into an external website. For testing purposes we sometimes also visit the report in the web service. This is something that is also correctly shown in the usage metrics' platform distribution:

And is also correctly captured in both the number of views and the division between "users".

However, it looks like the page share metrics only shows a distribution of the pages that I visited on the PowerBI.com platform. Pages that I visited frequently myself in the embedded version are not even shown. How can I see the page view metrics for those views that are from Power BI embedded?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

[Anonymous]

Hi ,

Any possible way to get usage metrics for embedded reports?

Thanks,

[v-deddai1-msft]

Hi @tvanbiemen ,

Usage metrics track usage of reports that are embedded in SharePoint Online. However, usage metrics don't track embedding of dashboards and reports via the “user owns credentials” or “app owns credentials” flow. Usage metrics also don't track usage of reports embedding via publish to web.

Please refer to https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-How-to-view-Usage-metrics-in-Power-BI-works...

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

[tvanbiemen]

Hi @v-deddai1-msft,

Thanks for your reply. It seems like the page views of our embedded reports are still tracked and counted towards the total, but that the distribution is not showing. Is my assumption that the embedded views stil count towards the total correct? I feel like this was changed with the improved version of the report usage metrics. (I see that the post you linked to shows the older version of the metrics and was posted before the new version became available)

Is the “app owns credentials” flow you describe the same as the "App owns data" embedding option that we choose? 

If usage metrics for embedded reports are indeed not possible. Do you of other options to track usage?

[v-deddai1-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @tvanbiemen ,

Current power bi usage metrics not support trace embedded reports. But I haven't found an alternative three-way service either.

Best Regards,

Dedmon Dai

[GilbertQ]

Hi there

What do you see in the Premium Capacity Metrics template app?

[tvanbiemen]

Hi @GilbertQ,

Thanks for your reply. I have downloaded the app and see a lot of metrics, mostly concerning paginated reports, resource utalization, datasets & -flows. Which part of the app are you eluding to in your post?

Thomas