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Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices A comprehensive guide to building consistently fast Power BI solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076449
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhavik Merchant Bhavik Merchant
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Architecture, Bottlenecks, and Performance Targets
2. Chapter 1: Setting Targets and Identifying Problem Areas FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Power BI Architecture and Configuration 4. Chapter 3: DirectQuery Optimization 5. Part 2: Performance Analysis, Improvement, and Management
6. Chapter 4: Analyzing Logs and Metrics 7. Chapter 5: Desktop Performance Analyzer 8. Chapter 6: Third-Party Utilities 9. Chapter 7: Governing with a Performance Framework 10. Part 3: Fetching, Transforming, and Visualizing Data
11. Chapter 8: Loading, Transforming, and Refreshing Data 12. Chapter 9: Report and Dashboard Design 13. Part 4: Data Models, Calculations, and Large Datasets
14. Chapter 10: Data Modeling and Row-Level Security 15. Chapter 11: Improving DAX 16. Chapter 12: High-Scale Patterns 17. Part 5: Optimizing Premium and Embedded Capacities
18. Chapter 13: Optimizing Premium and Embedded Capacities 19. Chapter 14: Embedding in Applications 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Analyzing Logs and Metrics

In the first part of this book, we built a solid foundation for performance management in Power BI by identifying the major architectural components that can affect your experience. We learned why your choices in these areas can slow things down, and we provided recommendations and justifications in each area.

Once these theoretical concepts have been put into practice, you will need to know how to measure performance and analyze the data. This will let you make informed decisions on where to invest time to investigate further and where to make changes for performance tuning. Hence, it is time to move into the second part of this book, where we will look at different places you can get performance-related information in Power BI and how to make sense of that data.

In this chapter, we will focus on the first part of report performance management, which is obtaining performance information. You'll learn what information is available...

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