BI Pixie Workload in Microsoft Fabric
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Test Events

The Test Events view in the BI Pixie item lets you confirm that Pixies are working and that events are flowing into BI Pixie. 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 the Test Events view and click Check for events to see the most recent events arrive in real time.

Screenshot: Test Events view in the BI Pixie item showing recent events flowing in for a selected report.

How to Get Here

Open the BI Pixie item from your Fabric workspace, then open the Test Events view from the sidebar. You can also jump straight to it from the Managed Reports view by selecting a report row.

Run a Test

  1. In the Test Events view, select the report you want to test from the dropdown.
  2. Open the same report in Power BI in a separate browser tab. Use the View in Power BI link from the Managed Reports view 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 Test Events view in the BI Pixie item.
  5. Click the Check for events button.
  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 Test Events 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 Test Events view 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 click Check for events and the table stays empty, try the following in order:

  1. Confirm the report has Pixies. Open the Managed Reports view and 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 click 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 in the Managed Reports view 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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