I was actually working on my own version of the Known Issues Power BI report, when the Power BI team released their blog post New Power BI Known Issue page | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

In the steps below I am going to show you the report I created, and then how I configured it to alert me when there are updates to new known issues.

I also subscribed to this report on a daily basis, this allows me to quickly and easily be aware of any known issues in Power BI.

The good news is at the end of my blog post I will have a copy of my PBIX file, which you can download and use

Creating the Known Issues Power BI dataset

What I did to create the known issues dataset in Power BI is I connected using the Web data source and created the 3 tables for the dataset

The reason for the 3 tables is to create the dataset which would allow me to get the Power BI Known issues, the URL Link and to compare when there are new known issues.

I then created the URL Link to a Web URL

I then created a measure called [Known Issues Alert], this was for me to get 1 when the Issue Publish Date = Current Date.

This allowed me to then create the 2 report pages.

The Known Issues page shows all the issues as shown below.

I then created a second page called Known Issue Alert. In this report page I have used my measure to only show me rows where the Publish Date = Current Date.

The way I structured this is when there is a new known issue it will have an Issue Publish Date, if this then matches the current date of the power bi dataset when it is refreshed, that then means that there is a new known issue.

I then will use this page to create a dashboard with an Alert in the Power BI Service.

As shown below this page is currently blank because there have not been any known issues issued today.

Creating the Alert in the Power BI Dashboard

The final step is for me to now create the alert in the Power BI Dashboard

I uploaded the Power BI report to the Power BI Service. I also configured the dataset refresh.

Then in the Power BI report I then pinned it to a dashboard

I then went to my Known Issues Alert number and configured the alert as shown below

This is what my dashboard looked like below.

The final step was I then subscribed to this dashboard too, which would mean I would only see the known issues when they appear.

Summary

In this blog post I have shown how I created a Power BI dashboard and report with the new known issues.

I also demonstrated how I created an alert to alert me when there is a new known issue.

Thanks for reading and if there are any suggestions or questions, please let me know.

Here is a link to my PBIX: Power BI Known Issues.pbix