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Mine Microsoft Power BI

Once you have crawled assets from Microsoft Power BI, you can mine its activity events to generate usage metrics.

To mine activity events from Microsoft Power BI, review the order of operations and then complete the following steps.

Select miner​

To select the Microsoft Power BI miner:

  1. In the top navigation, click Marketplace.
  2. Search for Power BI Miner and select it.
  3. Click Install.
  4. Once installation completes, click Setup Workflow on the same tile.

If you navigated away before installation completed, go to New > New Workflow and select Power BI Miner to proceed.

Configure miner​

To configure the Microsoft Power BI miner:

  1. For Connection, select the connection to mine. (To select a connection, the crawler must have already run.)
  2. (Optional) For Advanced Config, keep Default for the default configuration or click Advanced to configure the miner:
    1. For Start time, choose the earliest date from which to mine activity events.
    2. For Excluded Users, type the names of users to be excluded while calculating usage metrics for Microsoft Power BI assets. Press enter after each name to add more names.

Run the miner​

To run the Microsoft Power BI miner, after completing the steps above:

  • To run the miner once immediately, at the bottom of the screen, click the Run button.
  • To schedule the miner to run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, at the bottom of the screen, click the Schedule & Run button.

Once the miner has completed running, you can see usage metrics for Microsoft Power BI assets that were created in Microsoft Power BI between the start time and when the miner ran! 🎉