Chapter 6: Third-Party Utilities
In the previous two chapters, we used tools and data provided by Microsoft to get insights into report performance. In this chapter, we will cover some popular freely available third-party utilities that complement the built-in offerings and improve your productivity when investigating report performance issues.
These tools have a range of features, such as documenting our solutions, analyzing them to give recommendations, the ability to modify Power BI artifacts, capturing performance traces, and running queries. It is beyond the scope of this book to cover the full functionality of these tools, so we will limit our coverage to features and techniques that help us assess and improve performance.
The utilities introduced in this chapter are largely maintained by community contributors and are often open source. All the utilities described in this chapter are widely used to the point where they are formally acknowledged by Microsoft. Power BI...
