What you're responsible for
- Designing the Power BI architecture and data platform strategy for the organization
- Setting standards for semantic model development, naming conventions, and workspace structure
- Planning capacity allocation and advising on license decisions (Pro, PPU, Fabric)
- Establishing governance frameworks and ensuring they are followed in practice
- Ensuring the platform scales with organizational growth and evolving requirements
- Evaluating migration paths — consolidating workspaces, upgrading from PPU to Fabric, or retiring legacy models
Common issues we see
- No baseline performance metrics to inform capacity planning or license upgrade decisions
- Difficulty assessing whether workspaces should migrate from Pro to PPU or from PPU to Fabric
- Governance policies that exist in documents but cannot be tracked or measured operationally
- No way to measure whether architectural standards are actually improving performance over time
- Refresh performance degradation going undetected until it becomes a user-facing incident
- Lack of long-term historical data to support migration, consolidation, or decommission decisions
- Per-table performance data unavailable for Pro workspaces without premium licensing
- No integration path between Power BI monitoring and existing enterprise incident management tools
What changes with SummitView
- Get performance baselines across all workspaces to inform capacity planning with real data
- Compare refresh performance across license types to validate migration decisions
- Track governance metadata operationally — not in spreadsheets that no one updates
- Monitor the health of your architecture over time with unlimited historical retention
- Detect performance regressions early with anomaly detection and historical comparison
- Route alerts to ServiceNow, PagerDuty, or custom tools via webhook integration
- Assess PPU-to-Fabric migration readiness with real usage and performance data
Key capabilities for Power BI architects
Built for teams managing Power BI at scale.
Capacity planning
Track CPU, memory, and throttling across Fabric capacities. Use historical trends to plan upgrades and prevent performance degradation.
Performance baselines
Historical refresh timing across all workspaces. Compare performance by license type, workspace, or dataset to identify regressions.
Governance framework
Classify assets by criticality, lifecycle, and ownership. Track governance posture operationally instead of in static documents.
Alerting integration
Route alerts to ServiceNow, PagerDuty, or any tool via custom webhooks. Integrate Power BI monitoring into existing incident workflows.
Usage intelligence
Unlimited retention of adoption data. Understand which workspaces are growing, which are declining, and where to invest next.
Deployment flexibility
Cloud Connect (agentless) for immediate visibility. Optional Windows agent for deeper per-table performance data. Both read-only.
How teams deploy SummitView
Two deployment options — both read-only with least-privilege permissions.
Cloud Connect (agentless)
Register a service principal with read-only Power BI Admin API permissions. Get tenant-wide visibility into refreshes, usage, inventory, and capacity — with no software to install.
Windows Agent (optional enhancement)
Add per-table refresh timing for PPU and Fabric workspaces, row count tracking for anomaly detection, and reliable refresh status for Pro workspaces. Deployable via SCCM or Intune.
All permissions are read-only. SummitView cannot modify anything in your Power BI environment. Full security details
Frequently asked questions
SummitView is designed for enterprise Power BI environments. It monitors all workspaces in your tenant automatically with no per-workspace configuration. Data collection is incremental and lightweight, using read-only Admin APIs that add no load to your Power BI capacity.
SummitView retains all collected data indefinitely. Refresh history, usage events, capacity metrics, and inventory snapshots are stored for as long as your subscription is active. This gives you the historical baselines needed for capacity planning and architecture decisions.
SummitView uses delegated read-only permissions through the Power BI Admin API. Cloud Connect uses a service principal with only the scopes needed for each feature. The optional agent runs as the signed-in user with read-only access. No write permissions are ever requested.
Yes. SummitView supports custom webhook notifications that can route alerts to ServiceNow, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, or any HTTP endpoint. Webhooks include structured payloads with alert type, severity, affected resource, and context for automated triage.
SummitView provides real usage data and performance baselines across license types. You can compare refresh performance, capacity utilization, and adoption patterns between Pro, PPU, and Fabric workspaces to make data-driven migration decisions.
The Enterprise plan supports multiple Power BI tenants under a single SummitView account. Each tenant’s data is fully isolated. Contact sales for multi-tenant pricing.
SummitView collects operational metadata: workspace names and IDs, dataset names and refresh timing, report names and view counts, gateway status, capacity metrics, and user activity events. It never accesses actual report data, DAX queries, or business information.
SummitView provides API access and webhook integrations for data export. You can route alerts and metrics to external systems for centralized reporting. Enterprise customers can discuss custom data export requirements with our team.