Collecting Analytics Data from a Power BI Custom Connector

[Suraj459]

Hello Everyone,

I have developed a custom connector for Power BI Desktop and would like to collect analytics data to monitor its usage and performance. Specifically, I want to capture:

• Query execution time
• Connector failure data
• Details of users (e.g., user IDs or anonymized data) who are using the connector

To achieve this, I attempted to post the data to a server by sending the execution time of queries. However, I noticed that the server gets called multiple times, and the same execution time is printed every time, which is not the expected behavior.

Is there a proper way to implement analytics collection in a Power BI custom connector? Could you provide any guidance, best practices, or documentation to resolve these issues and ensure accurate data collection?

Thank you in advance for your help!