## Mine Microsoft Power BI

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/microsoft-power-bi/how-tos/mine-microsoft-power-bi

Once you have [crawled assets from Microsoft Power BI](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/microsoft-power-bi/crawl-microsoft-power-bi/llms.txt), you can mine its activity events to generate [usage metrics](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/usage-and-popularity/interpret-usage-metrics/llms.txt).

To mine activity events from Microsoft Power BI, review the [order of operations](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/order-workflows/llms.txt) and then complete the following steps.

## Select miner

To select the Microsoft Power BI miner:

1. In your Atlan workspace, click **Connectors** in the left sidebar.
 * If you are using the **Old UI (Classic)**, click **New Workflow** in the top navigation.

2. Click **Marketplace**.

3. Search for **Power BI Miner** and select it.

4. Click **Install**.

5. Once installation completes, click **Setup Workflow** on the same tile.

## Configure miner

To configure the Microsoft Power BI miner:

1. For _Connection_, select the connection to mine. (To select a connection, [the crawler](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/microsoft-power-bi/crawl-microsoft-power-bi/llms.txt) 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](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/usage-and-popularity/interpret-usage-metrics/llms.txt) 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! 🎉

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