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📊 Automating Power BI Usage Report Backups with Power Automate

📊 Automating Power BI Usage Report Backups with Power Automate Tracking Power BI usage data regularly is critical for understanding user engagement, optimizing dashboards, and auditing access. In this post, I’ll walk you through how we set up an automated monthly backup process using Power Automate to extract and store Power BI usage data for both users and report views. 🔄 Objective To automate the monthly extraction and backup of Power BI usage data — specifically the Users and Views datasets — and store them in CSV files on SharePoint for further use. 🧭 Workflow Overview Here’s the high-level structure of the Power Automate flow: Recurrence Trigger ➡️ Query Datasets ➡️ Convert to CSV ➡️ Save Files to SharePoint Let’s break it down step by step. 🪄 Step-by-Step Breakdown 1️⃣ Trigger: Recurrence Action : Recurrence Users and Views Global Campaign Dashboard Usage Report Description : This step triggers the flow on a monthly schedule (you can configure the exac...