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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[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?

[MilhouseBS]

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

[brendas]

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

[arunkumara]

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

[AndrewDale-sc]

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

[moth_la]

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

[texmexdragon]

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?

[mohamedchihebbida]

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

[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?

[tjmasters]

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

[Jojms]

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.

[angus]

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

[hius]

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

[sirajudeenpj]

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

[MattWood-nc]

Is there a Slack integration on the horizon?

[thomasgremm]

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 🙏

[MarioG]

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

[matthiask]

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

[vissvess]

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

[yyymmmddd]

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?