BI Pixie Dashboard

BI Pixie is an innovative solution to measure the effectiveness of your Power BI reports by looking at Usage, Engagement, Adoption, User Satisfaction, Performance, and Design Impact. Gain greater insight into your BI audience and Power BI reports with state-of-the-art analytics and instrumentation. Improve your mission-critical reports and measure the return on your Power BI investments.

BI Pixie tracks usage and interactions in your BI portfolio with best-of-breed engagement and adoption key performance indicators (KPIs) such as DAU, WAU, and MAU (daily/weekly/monthly active users) with built-in time intelligence. With this level of insight, you can know your BI audience and drive informed decisions on your future BI investments.

What's New in June 2025 Release:

Row-Level Security (RLS) Auditing: Track data leakage and suspicious access to Row-Level secured tables in your Power BI reports and gain unprecedented auditing and early detection of RLS flaws.

Recent Features:

• Export Auditing:Analyze data export events (CSV, Excel exports from visuals). Measure export events via the lens of performance, user-experience and security at the user, report, page, and visual levels.
• Lineage of data sources to business outcome: Compare the business outcome of different data stacks (e.g., Databricks vs. Snowflake), endorsement levels and shared semantic models.
• Activity Log Integration: Gain deeper visibility into Power BI user behavior including paginated report views, data exports, downloads, Analyze in Excel, and other consumer/producer actions across Power BI Activity Logs.
• Embedded Surveys: Automatically insert a custom survey page at the end of reports to collect and analyze user feedback—assessing perceived value, key issues, and estimated business impact.
• Data Auditing: Analyze which filters and data points users select in reports. Great for understanding interests and verifying authorized access.
• Performance: Collect telemetry from your Azure Log Analytics workspace using BI Pixie Automation. Learn more.
• Heatmaps: Visual Clicks Heatmap shows exact visual locations, number of clicks, and selected filters, helping improve report usability.
• Design Impact: Understand how design affects engagement using Complexity, Usability, and Passivity scores.
• Real-Time Use Cases: Deploy Event Hubs for large-scale or real-time data streaming scenarios.
• Git Integration: Automate Git pull/push for Power BI reports across multiple workspaces with Git integration.

BI Pixie is designed to support enterprise BI teams:

• The data that is tracked never leaves your organization.
• The solution can be deployed in minutes and track thousands of reports.
• The solution can track engagement from any platform (Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Mobile, Power BI Embedded, Publish to Web, Power BI Report Server).
• Does not use custom visuals. The solution uses built-in Power BI building blocks.
• The deployment is super-easy and doesn’t require coding skills.

This app provides the analytics and data visualization layer for the BI Pixie Azure Deployment and connects to your Azure Storage account where you store BI Pixie usage data. Go to Azure Marketplace and deploy BI Pixie's serverless event collection components.

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