New Solution For Monitoring Power BI/Fabric Gateways

If you’re the admin for a large Power BI/Fabric tenant you’ll know how important it is to monitor your on-premises data gateways: if they aren’t working then no-one will be able to refresh any semantic models or dataflows connected to on-prem sources. A while ago Rui Romano published a gateway monitoring solution that proved to be very popular, but recently my colleague at Microsoft Edgar Cotte built a new open-source solution that builds on Rui’s work and which is even more powerful, using Fabric Real-Time Intelligence to let you analyse gateway log information in real time.

You can read his announcement on LinkedIn here and download the solution from https://aka.ms/FabricGatewayMonitoring.

This is an amazing piece of work that is already being used by several very large customers. Check it out!

10 thoughts on “New Solution For Monitoring Power BI/Fabric Gateways

  1. “using Fabric Real-Time Intelligence to let you analyse gateway log information in real time”

    You mean the gateway logs that are committed to disk only once a day?

    1. Chris Webb – My name is Chris Webb, and I work on the Fabric CAT team at Microsoft. I blog about Power BI, Power Query, SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services and Excel.
      Chris Webb says:

      I may be wrong, but I believe that while a new log file is created every day, data is committed to the log file all the time.

    1. Chris Webb – My name is Chris Webb, and I work on the Fabric CAT team at Microsoft. I blog about Power BI, Power Query, SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services and Excel.
      Chris Webb says:

      You need Fabric enabled, yes

  2. Am I understanding this correctly, that you’d have to install and automate runs for the Powershell scripts on each gateway server a given tenant was using?

    1. Chris Webb – My name is Chris Webb, and I work on the Fabric CAT team at Microsoft. I blog about Power BI, Power Query, SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services and Excel.
      Chris Webb says:

      This gets data from the gateway logs, the capacity metrics app shows data for CU usage

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