After 24 hours have passed since setting up the storage account, you can import the Azure Backup content pack in Power BI. Please note that it takes around 24 hours for reporting data to start showing in Power BI.
Follow these steps to view the reports in Power BI:
- Sign in to Power BI at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/landing/signin/. On the left-hand side, select Get Data. In Discover content under Services, select Get.
Please note that you can use a free Power BI subscription, but it is limited to 1 GB of data only. If you need more data, then you need to switch to a paid version.
- In the search bar, type Azure Backup and then select Get it now:
- Enter the name of the storage account that you configured previously, and select Next to continue:
- Enter the storage account key for this storage account. You can get the storage access keys by going to your storage account in the Azure Portal. Select Sign in to verify you can sign in successfully:
- After signing in successfully, the Azure Backup content pack is visible in Apps in the navigation pane:
- Under Dashboards, select Azure Backup, which shows a set of key reports. To view the complete set of reports, select any report in the dashboard. In the following example, we are seeing the Backup Items tab that shows the top five backup items for each created and failed job, including the alerts created. You can select each tab at the bottom to view reports in that area:
