Guides
Power BI & Fabric governance, explained
Practical, tool-agnostic guides to the problems we help teams solve every day — unused content, capacity costs and refresh reliability.
How to Find Unused ("Zombie") Reports in Power BI
Three practical ways to find unused reports and datasets in Power BI — usage metrics, the GetUnusedArtifactsAsAdmin API and the activity log — their 30-day limits, and how to track usage continuously.
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Fabric Capacity Metrics: Keeping History Beyond 14 Days
The Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app only retains about 14 days of data. Here is why that is not enough for throttling investigations and capacity planning, and how to build a long-term store.
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Diagnosing Power BI Scheduled Refresh Failures
A field guide to Power BI dataset refresh failures — expired credentials, gateway problems, timeouts, memory pressure and refresh limits — how to diagnose each, and how to monitor refresh health tenant-wide.
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Power BI Tenant Inventory & Audit: A Practical Guide
How to build a complete inventory of your Power BI tenant — admin portal, PowerShell, the scanner API — where each method hits its limits, and what a continuously synced catalog adds for audits.
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Fabric FinOps: Understanding and Controlling Capacity Costs
How Fabric capacity billing actually works — capacity units, SKU sizing, smoothing — plus how to attribute consumption to workspaces and teams and decide when to scale versus optimize.
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Power BI Data Lineage: Impact Analysis and Audits
How to trace where Power BI reports really get their data — the built-in lineage view, the datasource APIs — and how continuous lineage mapping turns impact analysis into a filter instead of a project.
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Fabric Capacity Throttling: How It Works and Finding the Culprit
Why Fabric throttles — smoothing, burndown and the overage stages that delay or reject operations — and how to find which item actually overloaded the capacity using per-item history.
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What is Power BI Governance? The Complete Picture
A practical definition of Power BI governance — inventory, access, usage, reliability, lineage and cost — what each pillar means, and the concrete first step for each one.
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