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Power BI Explorer

The Power BI Explorer tab shows every collected workspace and its content as one tree per Power BI environment, and is the starting point for impact analysis, security, activity, export and access management.

Image of the Power BI Explorer with one environment expanded to a workspace showing an app, reports, a dashboard, semantic models, a dataflow and a lakehouse, with the filter pane open

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How it works

The tab appears when Power BI is enabled on the MetaMiner Server (MMS) and you load at least one Power BI environment. The tree is built from the environment snapshot, so browsing and filtering do not call Microsoft. Press F5 to load the newest snapshot. See Refresh and Background Tasks.

Which workspaces you see depends on how you signed in:

Sign-in Workspaces shown
No Power BI sign-in configured Every workspace MetaMiner collected from the tenant, including workspaces marked deleted
Power BI sign-in, normal view The workspaces your Microsoft account can access in Power BI
Power BI sign-in, Tenant Admin View on Every workspace in the tenant, including workspaces marked deleted. Needs the Tenant Admin permission. See Tenant Admin View.

When the Tenant Admin View button is pressed, the toolbar shows Admin View and later reloads keep the full view until you release the button.

Tree structure

Level Contents
Environment One row per loaded Power BI environment (tenant)
Workspace Shared workspaces, listed directly under the environment
Personal Workspaces A group row that holds users' personal workspaces ("My workspace")
App The workspace's app. Reports and dashboards published in the app are listed under it instead of directly under the workspace
Report A report. Its semantic model is listed under it, with that model's data sources
Dashboard A dashboard, with its tiles. Each tile lists the report or semantic model it shows
Semantic model A semantic model (dataset), with its data sources and tables
Dataflow A dataflow, with its data sources
Fabric item Lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, pipelines and other Fabric items, each shown with its item type

Under a workspace, items are listed in this order: app, reports, dashboards, semantic models, dataflows, Fabric items. Workspaces marked deleted in Microsoft appear in red; hover over one for the tooltip. With Power BI sign-in they appear only in Tenant Admin View.

Columns

Column Meaning
Name Item name
Created When the item was created, where Microsoft reports it
Updated When the item was last modified, where Microsoft reports it
Owner The configured owner or creator reported by Microsoft
Capacity The capacity the workspace runs on
Size Item size, where Microsoft reports it
# Objs Number of items in a container

TODO: confirm which item types fill the Created, Updated, Owner and Size columns

Source to check: Power BI Explorer on a tenant with Fabric items, compared with the Admin API scan result fields.

Explorer pages