It’s often challenging to do performance testing for Power BI. Traditional load testing methods are inadequate and tediously manual. They produce inconsistent outcomes and fail to scale for growing data and user needs.
LoadFAST is a solution that surpasses traditional load testing limits with scalable, accurate, and granular performance insights. By evaluating Power BI dashboard capacity usage, LoadFAST identifies bottlenecks and empowers you to optimize dashboards for better responsiveness.
Key benefits
LoadFAST effectively measures the impact of concurrent user loads on the performance of reports or dashboards. The tool helps report owners ensure optimal user experiences, even during high-demand periods.
The tool is crucial for assessing the required capacity in workspaces. Balancing performance needs with cost-effectiveness aids in preventing resource overuse or underuse. LoadFAST provides key insights into Fabric resource utilization.
LoadFAST simplifies the process of pinpointing expensive reports and visuals and resolving performance bottlenecks in Power BI reports. This allows businesses to focus on optimizations for quicker data processing and improved report performance.
Our advanced tool measures load time by simulating actions like selecting slicers and applying filters, providing insights into performance bottlenecks. Developers can optimize targeted areas to improve efficiency and user experience.
In addition to report, page, and action-based load times, assess the load time of your visuals. Optimize your visual usage to balance insights with performance.
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Features and capabilities
Calculates page load times for collection of reports viewed concurrently with distributed user counts, receiving a realistic understanding of how reports perform with a bunch of different user personas accessing and loading reports simultaneously in real-world scenarios.
Simulates real user actions like slicing and filtering while enabling admins to run tests as any user role for RLS-enabled reports, providing page load times under different user contexts.
Designed to scale effortlessly, enabling load testing for up to N users without caching while accommodating high volumes of concurrent requests for testing page load time in multiple browsers. This promptly delivers accurate performance metrics.
Excels at providing granular performance insights by tracking load time down to the page and even visual level, identifying the most expensive visuals in a report, and providing user-level analytics over time for targeted identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks.
Performs load testing via CI/CD pipeline integration, enabling proactive continuous performance monitoring as part of your development workflow.
Embeds Microsoft Fabric capacity reports within the tool, enabling users to correlate test results with capacity metrics for better resource planning and optimization.
Designed specifically for the user, providing comprehensive customization capabilities to personalize the testing experience. LoadFAST makes it easy to create collections, configure test runs, and define user actions according to your specific requirements, with intuitive visualizations and clear reporting for effective performance data interpretation.
LoadFAST brings a host of benefits to the table, from scalable and accurate testing to user-friendly interfaces. Your organization can now access granular performance insights and streamline page load time measurements. LoadFAST improves Power BI report performance, enabling confident, data-driven decisions.
Say goodbye to inefficiencies in your Power BI reports. Embrace a new era of performance monitoring and capacity optimization with LoadFAST.
Ready to improve your Power BI reports and setup? Download LoadFAST from the Azure Marketplace today. Contact CustomerSuccess@maqsoftware.com for any further inquiries.