Changelog

Release Notes

In the table below you can find a summary of the features and bug fixes that were released in BI Pixie since January, 2025.

Each improvement in BI Pixie may require an update in one or more of component. Contact us here if you have any questions.

June 2026

BI Pixie Workload for Microsoft Fabric (Public Preview)

Feature

BI Pixie is now live in the Microsoft Fabric Workload Hub as a public preview. Any Fabric tenant can add BI Pixie directly from the Workload Hub and start tracking how Power BI reports are used without leaving Fabric. Learn more.

BI Pixie MCP Server (Public Preview)

Feature

Connect AI assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric data agents, and Azure AI Foundry to your BI Pixie data and ask how your Power BI reports are really used, in plain language. Strictly read-only, with numbers that match your BI Pixie Dashboard. Learn more.

May 2026

BI Pixie Workload for Microsoft Fabric (Private Preview)

Feature

BI Pixie began running natively inside Microsoft Fabric as a workload, with a BI Pixie item living right in your Fabric workspace. Launched in private preview and since superseded by the public preview. Learn more.

April 2026

Introducing BI Pixie Cloud

Feature

BI Pixie is now available as a cloud service. Sign up, connect your Power BI workspaces, and start tracking user engagement in minutes, with no setup or infrastructure to manage and a free trial that needs no credit card. Learn more.

January 2026

Incremental Refresh, CI/CD, and a Fabric Lakehouse Pipeline for Enterprise

Feature

Enterprise customers can deploy the full BI Pixie data pipeline in their own Fabric workspace, backed by a Fabric Lakehouse with Direct Lake connectivity, incremental refresh that loads only new telemetry, and zero-ID CI/CD deployment. Learn more.

September 2025

Simpler Report Instrumentation using Fabric API

Feature

A new way to streamline BI Pixie with your existing CI/CD processes. Automatically export items from selected workspaces and update them back with tracking pixies. Works great with Test stages of Power BI deployment pipelines. Learn more.

August 2025

Engagement and performance of Custom visuals

Feature

BI Pixie now knows what types of visuals exist and whether they are built-in, certified or unknown. This knowledge is incorporated into the BI Pixie Dashboard (Azure version only).

Instrument Live-Connection Reports with external on-prem Analysis Services models

Feature

Previous version of the instrumentation didn't recognize the live connection reports if the external model was not a Power BI semantic model.

June 2025

Row-Level Security (RLS) auditing

Feature

Detect data leakage due to flaws in RLS implementation. Learn more.

May 2025

Analyze business outcome and ROI by data sources and endorsement

Feature

See new dashboard page: "Endorsement and Data Sources".

Gain Insights on Data Export Events

Feature

Track and analyze export to Excel/CSV events in Power BI. Learn more.

April 2025

New insights from Power BI Activity Logs

Feature

You can combine Power BI Activity Logs with BI Pixie's unique instrumentation technology to bring a new perspective into your BI producers and consumers.

Collecting Power BI Activity Logs

Feature

Collect Power BI Activity Logs to bring a new perspective into your BI producers and consumers. Includes Paginated report views and more activities.

March 2025

Embedded surveys

Feature

Automatically add customized surveys in your instrumented reports to collect user feedback.

Embedded surveys (Dashboard update)

Feature

With the new integration, you gain insights into new consumers' activities.

February 2025

Calculation groups in TMDL format

Fix

The automation was aborted when TMDL semantic models had calculation groups.

Inaccurate click count

Fix

When the heatmap was activated, there was inaccurate count of clicks.

Data Auditing

Feature

Enhanced auditing capabilities allows you to analyze what data users see and what data they select. Learn more.

Data Auditing (Dashboard page)

Feature

New Data Auditing page to analyze the data users select in visuals.

January 2025

Collect performance data

Feature

You can now collect performance data from Azure Log Analytics. Learn more.

Reports with live connection but no measures at the report-level were not instrumented

Fix

Reports with live connections and no external DAX measures were not instrumented.

Measures used as Drill through fields caused the automation to abort

Fix

When you use measures instead of columns as the fields in Drill-through pages, BI pixie automation was aborted.

Incorrect X,Y coordinates for visuals in groups

Fix

When data visuals were grouped the X and Y coordinates in the heatmaps of the dashboard were not accurate (They were relative to the group coordinates).