Power BI, like many Microsoft products, is multi-threaded. This can be seen from the logs and even the Task Manager. I know, I know…you’ve probably heard this part all before… The importance of this information, is that the logs will display Process IDs, (PID) that are separate from the main Power BI Desktop executable, including the secondary processes.. Moving from the Power BI logs that reside in the Performance folder, (see Part I here) we can view and connect the PIDs and TID, (Transaction IDs) to information from the Task Manager and the data displayed: Note that I’ve highlighted the…
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So we went over locations and the basics of logging and tracing in Power BI. I now want to know how to make more sense from the data. In Oracle, we use a utility called TKProf, (along with others and a number of third party tools) to make sense of what comes from the logs. SQL Server has Log Analytics and the profiler, but what can I do with Power BI? First, let’s discuss what happens when we have actual activity. In my first post, the system was pretty static. This time I chose to open up a file with…