Unleash the Potential of Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric

Get ready to unlock the full potential of Power BI with Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric. Join Will Thompson as he walks you through the features and benefits of this powerful tool. Whether you're a Power BI pro or just starting out, this video has something for everyone.
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[@brendas6461]

I remember Will from the beginning of my PBI journey, several years ago. Fun intro.

[@Milhouse77BS]

4:15 "The Reflex" and it has it's own 80's song by Duran Duran

[@arunkumara3811]

I am not seeing an option "Every" to select how often the report want to check.

[@user-ye1ch7cm6c]

I don't get an EVERY button to choose the frequency. I am using a preview

[@lopypop]

I love seeing Will here! He's the first face many of us associated with Power BI.
Silly question: what is a Fabric workspace? Is a Power BI workspace automatically a Fabric workspace or do we need to do something?

[@ewoutlagendijk9604]

Yes, your tenant admin needs to turn on Fabric from the Azure portal.

[@sirajudeenpj3458]

is there any resource on how to set up data activator for synapse ? i keep getting an error saying invalid credential

[@JorgeSantos-zx6gg]

I am monitoring a measure and I can send an alert, but can we eventually send all the products the issue that measure is measuring? Example: products which have been reported as anomalous more than 10 times.

[@moth_la]

I used it a couple times for a few alerts on thresholds a few years ago.... generally do not use "dashboards".

[@dipteshbose]

Thank you for this video. Hope to see future videos on the "act" side of things...What are the options available beyond sending emails or a teams notification. For example, can we call an API, LogicApp or Power Automate Flow?

[@texmexdragon2160]

Hi Guys - How would you explain the use-case difference between Data Activator and the Metrics app? Seems they sort of overlap to some degree?

[@angus6095]

Interesting. How is this different from LogicApps and Microsoft Flow? Thanks!

[@hi55us2]

Exciting stuff! Just wish more of these features where added to the pro license.

[@mohamedchihebbida2375]

Thanks a lot for this video ! I have two things I hope someone clarify to me.
1 at this point it seems to me like a new feature in Power BI, why have it as a new seprate product ?
2 When you say he listens, it seems to me what it is really doing is going to have a look each 5 min, or am I worng here ?
Like for example if activator checked temperature at 5h30 and it was ok but it went up at 5h32 but then went down at 5h34 back to ok state, then when activator checks again at 5h35 everything is okay, so in this case I will find 0 emails, but if it listens then I should have an email at 5h32.
If someone understood this better, can you calrify please ? Thanks

[@amirhosseinhafezaghili3012]

Hello friends, I designed dashboards with power bi desktop and put them on power bi report server, I want to automatically backup them, I don't care where they are stored. Any idea how to do this?

[@tjmasters7532]

I use the #dashboards and alerts :-) thanks for the vids

[@MarioG83]

Q: Awesome feature - is this also working with datasets in direct query? If yes, how (which user / account gets impersonated)?

[@Fernando_Calero]

I don't see the Trigger Action option in my report published to a premium workspace.

[@ewoutlagendijk9604]

Yeah they renamed it to Set alert on the visual.

[@thomasgremm6127]

Could you please provide a demo with COTS IoT sensors like a raspberry pi or a mobile phone app etc. exposing event data and geolocation data, then connect it with Azure Event Hub and plug-in the Data activator.
This would be awesome for companies tracking their own fleet, among other things.
Thanks 🙏

[@vissvess]

Patrick compared Data activiator with Alerts. But It looks like Data Activator is an update to Scorecard/Metrics/Goals. Thoughts.?

[@GuyInACube]

It's more aligned to alerts and triggering off of data. Not really the same as scorecard/metrics/goals. It's not really tied to OKRs, but you could potentially alert off of certain metrics.

[@paullevchuk]

Can this feature easily send data alerts to Slack (as Power Automate)?

[@paulgallagher2987]

I've just had a play with it and it looks like you can utilise Power Automate flows.

[@blackbanane3979]

can i use Data activator having Power BI Pro Licence?

[@jonbaylis2203]

Nope 😭

[@coynessglory3]

How is this different from alerts on dashboard? 🤔

[@paulgallagher2987]

It means you don't have to go through the extra step of creating a dashboard and pinning a visual to the db. you can just set it up directly from the report visual.

[@matthiask4602]

so even if we WOULD change from pbi Pro to Premium per user, we would not have that feature, right? it is Fabric only

[@GuyInACube]

Correct. This is not covered by Premium Per User. it is a Fabric workload and needs either a full Fabric capacity or a Premium capacity.

[@matthiask4602]

thx for clarifying@@GuyInACube

[@1yyymmmddd]

So I undestand this feature is available only in Capacity accounts where you pay thousands of dollars for an account. It is not available in PPU and lower level accounts, isn't it?

[@hahuyhung5248]

It would be about $300/ month to use all features in Fabric

[@1yyymmmddd]

@@hahuyhung5248 which plan is it?

[@melodym5993]

Could someone please share the licensing documentation showing an only $300 increase to switch over? Thanks very much for all the information, looks like a fantastic new feature, but I'm still looking for a full feature comparison on dashboard vs reports too. Could anyone help with that? Many thanks!!

[@GautamPai]

#dashboard. useful for embedding data studio reports

[@user-mt3et2te3v]

Is there a Slack integration on the horizon?

[@rocketrod67]

Several #dashboards with data alerts to validate data entered by customers

[@pietjehans206]

#Dasboard but mostly for data alerts

[@jarodkilgore5067]

#dashboard

[@GuyInACube]

Appreciate you calling it out 👊

[@byzovb]

#dashboard for alerts

[@davidcousins8407]

#dashboard #crickets

[@rowanschoultz1022]

Reports only - no dashboards

[@WellsWellss]

#Dashboard

[@fernalication]

#dashboard but maybe it's time to change to #dataactivator

[@GuyInACube]

Nice. Thanks for calling it out. What are you using the Dashboard item for?

[@fernalication]

​@@GuyInACube We have some tiles for alerting of some kpis and values. The problem we see now is that the alert cannot be sent to a distribution group/list.

[@TheGurthang99]

#dashboard over 300 or them

[@GuyInACube]

Wow! What is the use case for them?

[@jonbaylis2203]

😮

[@Milhouse77BS]

I'm hoping the bicycle rentals include Brompton folding bicycles!

[@brettwagner2950]

#dashboards, still maintained but moving away from.

[@alexmahrou6434]

I'm just here to see if anyone actually uses the #dashboards feature 😂

[@paulgallagher2987]

Only if we have to set up an alert! 😂😂

[@ashokpershad]

Only Leaders are using Dashboards.. 😃

[@roberttyler2861]

don't use dashboards :(

[@theanxiousplanner3516]

#dashboard

[@saikrishnanimmagadda6469]

#Dashboard

[@KathiHurtgen]

#dashboard

[@scottmuller8124]

#dashboard

[@toma4528]

#dashboard