BI Pixie Workload in Microsoft Fabric
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Test Events

You confirm that Pixies are working in the Events pane, which sits below the report list in the Managed Reports view. The pane is part of that view rather than a separate entry in the sidebar. After you add Pixies to a report, open the report in Power BI in another browser tab, interact with it for a few seconds, then return to Managed Reports, select the report, and select Check for events to see the most recent events.

The Managed Reports view inside the BI Pixie item, listing two tracked reports in the BI Pixie Demo SaaS workspace with columns for report, workspace, added by, status, date, and actions, both reading Pixies Added. The Marketing Campaigns row is selected, and the Events pane below the list is headed Events: Marketing Campaigns with a Check for events button. It reads 28 events, last updated Aug 24, 2026, above a table of the most recent ones with time, event, visual type, page, and details columns. The event column carries color-coded pills for Slicer Click, Interaction, Feedback, Page View, and Visual Click, and the details column shows the filter values behind each one, highlighted in gold.

How to Get Here

Open the BI Pixie item from your Fabric workspace, then open the Managed Reports view from the sidebar. Select any report in the list to load its events into the Events pane below. You can drag the divider between the list and the pane to give either one more room, or collapse the pane with the chevron on its header bar.

Run a Test

  1. In the Managed Reports view, select the report you want to test.
  2. Open the same report in Power BI in a separate browser tab. Use the Open report action on the report's row to open it directly.
  3. Interact with the report for a few seconds: switch pages, click visuals, change slicers, hover over tooltips. The more variety, the better the test.
  4. Return to the BI Pixie item. Your report is still selected in Managed Reports.
  5. Select the Check for events button at the top of the Events pane.
  6. BI Pixie fetches the 20 most recent events for the selected report and displays them in a table.

If events appear, your Pixies are working. If the events table is empty, see Troubleshooting below.

Event Table Columns

Column Description
Time When the event occurred.
Event The type of interaction, shown as a color-coded pill (Page View, Visual Click, Interaction, Filter, Slicer Click, Tooltip View, Bookmark Click, Drillthru, Link Click, Feedback, etc.).
Visual Type The type of visual involved in the interaction.
Page The report page where the event occurred.
Details Additional context such as filter values (highlighted in gold), bookmark names, or clicked URLs.

Column widths can be resized by dragging the column borders. All columns are sortable by clicking their headers. If the events include a username, it is displayed in the Events pane header.

What to Expect

  • Latency: Events typically appear within a few seconds of the interaction. During heavy ingestion or capacity slowdowns, you may see delays of up to a minute.
  • Page View first: The first event for a session is always a Page View. If you see Page View events but no Visual Click or Filter events, that usually means visual-level tracking or data-selection tracking is turned off in the Tracking Setup view.
  • Sampling and limits: The Events pane shows the 20 most recent events for the selected report. For full historical analysis, install the BI Pixie Dashboard.
  • No PII by default: User identity is anonymized to a hash unless you have explicitly enabled "Capture user identity" in Tracking Setup.

Troubleshooting

No events appearing

If you select Check for events and the table stays empty, try the following in order:

  1. Confirm the report has Pixies. In the Managed Reports list, verify the report's status is "Pixies Added". If the status is "Pixies Removed" or the report is not listed, go to Add Pixies first.
  2. Confirm you opened the right copy of the report. Pixies live inside the report definition in your Fabric workspace. If you used Download with Pixies, the downloaded file has Pixies but the workspace copy does not until you publish.
  3. Wait a few seconds and select Check for events again. Ingestion takes a moment, especially on first interaction.
  4. Hard-refresh the report. Power BI sometimes serves a cached visual layer. Close the report tab in Power BI, reopen it, and interact again.
  5. Re-run Update Pixies. If the report definition changed after Pixies were added (new pages, moved visuals), the existing Pixies may be stale. Open the action menu on the report's row in Managed Reports and choose Update Pixies.
  6. Check that interaction tracking is enabled. If only Page View events appear, open the Tracking Setup view and verify that the relevant interaction options (slicer clicks, bookmark navigation, link clicks, etc.) are turned on. Update Pixies after changing settings.
  7. Check your subscription state. If your plan has expired and you are past the grace period, ingestion is paused. See Licenses for renewal options.

Events appear with a delay

Some delay is normal under load. If events consistently take more than a minute, check the Fabric Monitoring Hub for any capacity-throttling or workload errors on the BI Pixie item.

Wrong username or no username

By default, BI Pixie identifies users by an anonymous hash. To see real names and emails in events, enable Capture user identity in the Tracking Setup view and update Pixies on the report.

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