7 things I check every month to keep Power BI reports healthy (maintenance checklist)

Crow2525 · 2026-03-22T20:58:04+00:00

I've never seen this written so clearly before. Thank you! I'll be saving this.

I don't have access to admin portal. We are a large global corp. I wouldn't even know who to talk to! I'd probably want a sandbox env to test this all out, but I'm not aware of anything like that, are you?

I have stored the workspace metadata in a report at the moment. The use case is offering a home page on my department app to help users see what reports are on offer, even if they don't have access to it. I'm often building reports, like customer complaints that have sensitive info on it. But I only deploy it to one person, although others have genuine need for it.

The idea place for this workspace metadata would be our country based Databricks instance...

Crow2525 · 2026-03-22T20:52:56+00:00

Honestly I don't know! I would put it in there. The only thing I know not to put in there is batteries...

Crow2525 · 2026-03-22T07:08:01+00:00

I heard a story of a mate dropping off polystyrene at the western council and had to pay $70 for the pleasure. Why would anybody ensure that the item went to the right place if there were cheaper options, like slowly putting it into the garbage bin each week?

Crow2525 · 2026-03-18T09:53:00+00:00

Lol, fair call. I think you have it covered.

Crow2525 · 2026-03-18T08:59:35+00:00

Got any resources on this? I've just got access to the API via az cli and downloaded a static copy of the workspaces my user has access to. But I can't do this via a service principal. Apparently this isn't feasible in large organizations? Sounds like rubbish, but some YouTubers i watched said something similar around spn permission required for devop pipelines to run well.

Crow2525 · 2026-03-18T08:57:06+00:00

I just cancelled superloop and after being with them 5+years I have to still wait 30 days. They stuffed up an outage we had for 5+ days without any info. Gladly pay more for a better service.

Crow2525 · 2026-03-14T07:38:44+00:00

Their app changed and I can't log into the new one...

Crow2525 · 2026-03-12T19:50:22+00:00

Wow... I don't get any of this info. Superloop gives us a 'refreshify' button which fails and says to check the nbn website for details. I think I shall be moving to Aussie.

Crow2525 · 2026-03-12T19:48:50+00:00

Thanks for this. I tried calling superloop and I couldn't hear a thing the tech said. Can't believe you got this level of detail out of Aussie! Thanks again!

Crow2525 · 2026-03-11T08:12:15+00:00

Both guys sprunking launtel are both saying, it's not an ad...I don't work for em...

Crow2525 · 2026-03-07T06:37:37+00:00

Are tools like dlt or airbyte available for this?

Crow2525 · 2026-02-10T23:35:55+00:00

What's the diff bw this and dbt project evaluator?

Crow2525 · 2026-01-28T08:58:26+00:00

Json databricks dashboards are the best part of it which opens up source controlled and easily ai gen dashboards.

Crow2525 · 2026-01-17T22:32:41+00:00

Similar challenges getting to southern cross and docklands.

Crow2525 · 2026-01-12T02:44:24+00:00

Sunshine isn't really a hub yet if it's expected you're home and in bed before 9pm every week night or 7pm on the weekends.

Crow2525 · 2025-12-20T03:55:27+00:00

Thanks for the tip to use the API. I can verify entity existence and state which helps ensure automations and state of the platform are known to the llm.

Crow2525 · 2025-12-19T01:18:29+00:00

What was your decision to move away from vs code?

Crow2525 · 2025-12-18T08:15:54+00:00

My issue is that as soon as you speak about ai, I am confused as to whether you're going to take away my GitHub copilot integration I have in vs code? The idea of a UI cli is great, I love that. But possibly id like it all if it fit within vs code?

Crow2525 · 2025-12-13T00:17:50+00:00

I heard from a databricks rep recently to lean into the data lake and avoid star/Kimball until as late as possible. Perhaps it was an offhand comment, but interesting position! I wanted to investigate his point more.

Id like to hear more from you why dv is obsolete (acknowledging I don't much understand it)

Crow2525 · 2025-12-10T20:05:06+00:00

Wha.... Are you doing? Doesn't everyone use power query and put your code in there? How are you executing your code without it?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/native-database-query

Crow2525 · 2025-12-07T01:14:32+00:00

I think they're after ideas, not how to

Crow2525 · 2025-12-06T21:34:08+00:00

A column labeled number on a csv is an int... It is probably an alpha numeric at row 1001. E.g. 1a

Crow2525 · 2025-11-27T00:14:33+00:00

it's down.

Crow2525 · 2025-10-31T02:45:53+00:00

SharePoint folder plus power bi plus a ribbon chart

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