What's New

BI Pixie Events Land in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse

BI Pixie events now land in a Fabric Lakehouse, enabling Direct Lake connectivity for BI Pixie reports across adoption, engagement, performance, user satisfaction, security, and governance.

• Lower latency and flexible architecture with no import refresh cycles.
• One governed data layer for telemetry, ready for scale.
• Native alignment with Fabric, RTI, and future workloads as Microsoft releases new capabilities like Fabric IQ and Ontology.

New BI Pixie Dashboard on Microsoft AppSource

A brand new version of BI Pixie Dashboard is now available on Microsoft AppSource. The new version groups insights by six key dimensions:

• Adoption — track who uses your reports and how usage grows over time.
• Engagement — measure session duration, interactions, and click patterns.
• Business Outcomes — quantify time savings, financial gains, and decision-making impact from embedded surveys.
• User Satisfaction — analyze feedback and NPS scores across reports and users.
• Performance — monitor report load times and identify slow pages and visuals.
• Security & Governance — audit Row-Level Security, data selections, and click-level activity.

A new way to automatically streamline BI Pixie with your existing CI/CD processes. Automatically export items from selected workspaces and update them back with tracking pixies. Works great with Test stages of Power BI deployment pipelines.

BI Pixie now identifies whether visuals are built-in, certified, or unknown. Use the new Custom Visuals Heatmap to analyze certified, uncertified, and unknown custom visuals across your reports. Analyze visual clicks and performance by visual types and their state.

Comprehensive auditing of Row-Level Security (RLS) in Power BI with early detection of misconfigurations that lead to overexposed data, over-blocking experiences, and potential security risks.

• Analyze data export events (Export to CSV, Excel) at the user, report, page, and visual level.
• Unprecedented lineage from data sources to business outcome. Compare the business outcome of different data stacks (e.g., Databricks vs. Snowflake).
• Assess business outcome by complexity score, including count of measures and total length of DAX expressions.
• Detection of scroll-down events in visuals.

New insights from Power BI Activity Logs

Combine Power BI Activity Logs with BI Pixie's instrumentation technology for a new perspective on BI producers and consumers:

• Paginated report views
• Export of data from visuals to Excel
• Report downloads as PDF and PPTX
• Analyze in Excel
• Email subscriptions

Automatically add customized surveys in your instrumented reports to collect user feedback and measure the effectiveness and ROI of your reports.

Enhanced auditing capabilities to gain deeper insights into how end-users interact with your Power BI reports and the data they select — ensuring better understanding of user behavior, greater security and compliance.

Extend BI Pixie capabilities beyond engagement, adoption, and satisfaction to analyze the performance of your Power BI reports by connecting BI Pixie Automation to Azure Log Analytics. Requires the Self-Hosted deployment.

BI Pixie reads meta-information from Microsoft Fabric or Power BI service, allowing you to analyze the effectiveness of your reports by capacities and workspaces.

Analyze the efficiency of your Power BI reports at the visuals level with an interactive heatmap.

BI Pixie now collects essential statistics (count of visuals, bookmarks, slicers and more) to help you identify complexity, usability and passivity scores. Detect ineffective design patterns and determine if excessive use of controls leads to low engagement.

Automatically add feedback controls in as many reports as you need, and analyze user satisfaction on a large scale to help optimize the effectiveness of your BI portfolio.

BI Pixie Featured in Power BI October 2025 Feature Summary

We are thrilled to see BI Pixie spotlighted in Microsoft's Power BI October 2025 Feature Summary.

BI Pixie live at Vancouver Fabric & Power BI UG

Watch Gil's live session at the Vancouver Fabric and Power BI User group on measuring report effectiveness including embedded surveys.

Gil Raviv highlighted critical insights and practical solutions for measuring the true value of Power BI dashboards and introduced BI Pixie as the solution.

With Rob Collie on Raw Data Podcast

Rob sits down with Gil to dig into why usage data is the missing ingredient for truly effective BI. The discussion about BI Pixie starts at 00:53:05.

Gil met Reid Havens and Steve Campbell from Analytic Endeavors to talk about BI Pixie.

Learn great techniques to analyse digital products with Power BI and Fabric — measuring user adoption, attrition, satisfaction, session duration, and design usability.

Gil joined Kratos BI's Fabric Fridays livestream to demo BI Pixie live with public Power BI reports, tracking user interactions from the live audience.

DataChant Available in the Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to BI Pixie to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure.

BI Pixie was featured in the official Microsoft Power BI blog as part of the September 2024 Feature Summary.