Monitor Releases

Monitor Release December 2025

We’re excited to introduce several new Power BI monitors that help you better understand dataset behavior, reduce unnecessary costs, and ensure your users always have access to trustworthy, up-to-date data. These enhancements make it easier to spot inefficiencies and resolve issues before they impact your business.

Power BI Monitor: Inactive Reports with Long Refresh Durations (1–2 hours, 2–3 hours and more than 3 hours)

We’ve added three new monitors that identify reports with no user activity but long-running semantic model refreshes.

Why this matters: Long refresh times on unused reports can drive up compute costs and slow down your analytics environment. These monitors help you quickly pinpoint where optimizations, reduced refresh frequency, or content retirement may be beneficial.

Power BI Monitor: Reports with Failed Dataset Refresh (with active users)

This monitor flags reports that have recent user activity but whose underlying semantic model failed to refresh.

Why this matters: Your users may be viewing stale or incomplete data without realizing it. This monitor helps you catch refresh failures early so you can restore data quality and maintain trust in your BI reporting. It also provides analytics that reveal where failures most often occur and highlight trends, enabling faster diagnosis and more proactive issue prevention.