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Usage Dashboards

The Power BI Usage web app shows how your Power BI and Fabric tenant is used, maintained, governed and licensed, in a browser, from the data MetaMiner collects.

The dashboards are served by the MetaMiner Server (MMS) at /web/pbiusage/ on the MMS port. This section also covers two more browser apps that work in a Power BI deployment: Monitor (health of the MetaMiner Server itself) and Meta Query on the web (read-only SQL over the MetaMiner Database).

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  B[Web browser] -->|"https://mms-host:49714/web/pbiusage/"| MMS[MetaMiner Server]
  MMS -->|loopback| WA[MetaMiner Web Apps service]
  WA --> MMDB[(MetaMiner Database)]
  MMS -->|collectors| MS[Microsoft Power BI, Fabric and Graph APIs]
  MMS --> MMDB

Access

  • Enable the Dashboards

    Check the Web Apps service, the Power BI Usage switch, and open the app from a browser or the MetaMiner Client.

  • Scope and Sign-In

    Limit the user-population figures to one Entra group, and control who can reach the dashboards.

  • Data Freshness

    What the data-state notes mean, how often the figures are rebuilt, and when they count as stale.

Power BI Usage

  • Command Center

    Command Center: inventory and refresh KPIs, daily activity, top operations and workspaces, capacity fleet.

  • Activity

    User Activity and System Load: active identities, power users, hour-of-day and weekday patterns.

  • Content Health

    Stale and unused reports, workspaces to archive, orphaned and never-updated content.

  • Semantic Models

    Semantic Models: refresh volume, success rate, slow and wasted refreshes, failure reasons.

  • Data Sources

    Datasource types, shadow-BI exposure, gateway binding, misconfigured bindings, connection security.

  • Governance

    Sensitivity labels, endorsement, schema drift, lineage integrity, ownership, Fabric estate, app coverage.

  • Users and Licenses

    Users & Licenses: idle paid seats, never-active and disabled users, adoption funnel, guests and sharing.

  • Executive

    Platform health score, estimated monthly waste, shadow BI, chargeback, key-person risk, action roadmap.

  • Capacity Metrics

    Capacity Metrics: utilization, throttling and CU mix per Fabric capacity, from the Fabric Capacity Metrics app.

More Web Apps

  • Monitor

    CPU, memory, heap and disk of the MetaMiner Server and the size of the MetaMiner Database.

  • Meta Query on the Web

    A browser SQL workbench for read-only queries against the MetaMiner Database.

Chapter status

  • Enable the Dashboards - which installers register the Web Apps service is not confirmed.
  • Scope and Sign-In - no product sign-in for the dashboards; guidance relies on network controls.
  • Users and Licenses - seat costs are configured in two places; product decision pending.
  • Capacity Metrics - supported Fabric Capacity Metrics app versions not listed.
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