Chapter 7: Governing with a Performance Framework

We began this book by introducing performance management and how to set reasonable targets, borrowing from user interface research. We identified that areas of Power BI can affect report and dataset refresh performance, then we walked through architectural concepts and optimization choices. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 focused on sources of information and tools that can help us monitor report and query performance.

The metrics and tools in earlier chapters are essential building blocks for performance management. However, success is more likely with a structured and repeatable approach to build performance-related thinking into the entire Power BI solution life cycle. This chapter provides guidelines to set up data-driven processes to avoid sudden scaling issues with new content and prevent the degradation of existing content.

You could consider performance management as having two distinct phases. The first involves monitoring and...