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# What is Power Monitor

Understand what Power Monitor is, what it monitors and governs in your Microsoft Fabric and Power BI environment, and why it is essential for those who administer these environments.

**Power Monitor** is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform from [Power Tuning](https://powertuning.com.br/) for **monitoring, governance, data quality, and audit** of **Microsoft Fabric** and **Power BI** environments, designed for the administrators and managers of these environments.

Instead of finding out about problems when a user complains, you are **notified automatically**: semantic model refresh failures, pipeline and notebook failures, offline gateways, capacities close to their limit, unusual consumption. And, beyond notifying you, Power Monitor shows **what exists** in your tenant, **who accesses what**, **how much each item consumes**, and **where the risks and waste are**.

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## The problem Power Monitor solves

Without a proactive monitoring tool, Power BI and Fabric administrators are stuck in **reactive mode**: they only find out that something stopped working when a user complains or when someone manually notices that a refresh failed. This leads to:

* **Impact on business users**, who make decisions with outdated data;
* **Rework for the data team**, which investigates the problem after it has already caused damage;
* **Lack of visibility** into the inventory, permissions, and the actual consumption of capacities;
* **Uncontrolled costs**, with oversized capacities or capacities running outside business hours.

Power Monitor reverses this logic: you know about the problem **before** the user does and you have the data to decide.

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## What Power Monitor does

| Area             | What you track                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Dashboards**   | Consolidated view of the environment, governance, capacities, efficiency, permissions, report views, and a TV dashboard                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Monitoring**   | Capacity consumption in Capacity Units (CU), consumption comparison and history, anomalies, semantic model refreshes, Fabric item runs (pipelines, notebooks, Copy jobs, Dataflows Gen2), average execution time, data freshness, Fabric Mirroring, gateways, and alerts |
| **Capacities**   | Capacity cost, governance with scheduled pause, resume, and scaling, Auto-Scale, and a record of all actions                                                                                                                                                             |
| **Governance**   | Inventory of workspaces, reports (including paginated), dashboards, apps, semantic models, storage, data engineering and data science, real-time, capacities, gateways, connections, schedules, domains, public links, and deleted artifacts                             |
| **Data Quality** | Lineage, data dictionary, AI Score, Best Practices Score (BPA), environment and workspace X-Ray, data exposure, and model cleanup                                                                                                                                        |
| **Audit**        | Tenant activity events, report views, permissions audit, application events, sent emails, and capacity actions                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Alerts**       | Notifications by email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Telegram, with configurable recipients and types                                                                                                                                                                     |

Learn about each area in [Main Features](/en/principais-funcionalidades.md) and in the [portal Overview](/en/power-monitor/visao-geral.md).

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## Key characteristics

| Characteristic                       | Detail                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **100% SaaS**                        | Access through the browser, with no server, agent, or software to install in your environment                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Guided installation**              | A wizard connects your tenant in a few minutes, automatically or manually                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Metadata only**                    | Power Monitor reads technical metadata and operational status through the official Microsoft APIs. It **does not copy or store the business data** of your reports and models. See [Security and privacy](/en/perguntas-frequentes/duvidas-tecnicas/seguranca-e-privacidade.md) |
| **Sign-in with a Microsoft account** | Access exclusively with Microsoft Entra ID accounts from your tenant                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Continuous monitoring**            | Automatic checks in cycles of minutes, 24 hours a day                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Multilingual**                     | Interface in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Works on mobile**                  | Responsive layout that can be installed on the smartphone home screen                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **30-day free trial**                | No credit card required                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Price based on environment size**  | Monthly fee by tier of monitored items, based on the month's average. See [How much does it cost?](/en/readme/quanto-custa-o-power-monitor.md)                                                                                                                                  |

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## Who is Power Monitor for?

* **Power BI and Fabric administrators** who need complete visibility of the environment;
* **IT and data managers** who want to ensure data availability for the business and control capacity costs;
* **Data teams** who need to know immediately when a refresh or a pipeline fails;
* **Security and compliance areas** that need to audit access, permissions, and data exposure;
* **Companies with complex environments**, with multiple capacities, gateways, and hundreds or thousands of items.

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## Power Monitor vs. manual monitoring

|                      | Manual monitoring                    | Power Monitor                                               |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Detects failures     | When the user complains              | Automatically, in cycles of minutes                         |
| Capacity consumption | Occasional check in Capacity Metrics | Continuous, with history, comparisons, and anomalies        |
| Offline gateways     | Discovered manually                  | Alert and resolution notice                                 |
| Tenant inventory     | Periodic manual export               | Centralized and updated daily                               |
| Permissions          | Checked workspace by workspace       | Consolidated audit, with group expansion                    |
| Capacity cost        | Spreadsheets and the Azure portal    | Cost per capacity, scheduled pause and scheduled SKU change |

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### Main documentation

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