Secrets of Power BI Performance Analyzer
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Understand how to use all the information available in Performance Analyzer in Power BI to tune your reports.
Session Details
Performance Analyzer has been around in Power BI Desktop forever and now it's available in the browser for published reports too. But did you know that if you export data from it there's a lot more information available in there than is visible in the Performance Analyzer pane? In this session you can learn more about this extra data and how you can visualise it, what it tells you about how Power BI reports work, and how you can use it for performance tuning.
3 things you'll get out of this session
* Learn the basics of Performance Analyzer
* See what extra data is available when you export results from Performance Analyzer, and how to interpret that data
* Use this information to tune Power BI reports
Speakers
Chris Webb's other proposed sessions for 2026
Fabric Power Hour - 2026
Performance tuning Dataflows Gen2 - 2026
Tuning Power BI Copilot with AI Instructions - 2026
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