Power BI Refresh Failure Triage Tracker
A manual-first tracker for logging failed Power BI scheduled refreshes, capturing evidence, assigning the next owner, retesting, and exporting a clear handover.
How does this Blueprint help you? A small internal web app for Power BI report owners that turns a failed scheduled refresh into a structured incident record. The app stores manually entered report dependencies, refresh-history evidence, checklist results, owner assignments, retest entries, and a point-in-time handover export.
Why this exists
Microsoft documentation tells users which areas to inspect, but it does not give this avatar a shared, report-specific place to preserve dependencies, evidence, owners, uncertainty, and retest results. V1 packages that manual triage process without forcing API access, tenant monitoring, or migration away from current reports.
Who will use it
Excel-strong business analysts, reporting leads, finance/ops analysts, department power users, and accidental BI owners at 50-2,000 person companies. They maintain Power BI reports and semantic models but are not tenant admins, gateway admins, BI architects, or full-time Power Platform developers.
Blocker it removes
When scheduled refresh fails, the user has to check Power BI refresh history, semantic model settings, gateway/cloud connection status, data source credentials, source paths, Power BI Desktop refresh behaviour, and stakeholder deadlines in separate places. The failure record rarely becomes a reusable handover.
V1 proof
With one sample report and one failed scheduled-refresh incident, the app can show completed dependency fields, checklist results, a likely failure category, an assigned next step, retest status, and an exportable handover snapshot.
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