Reporting Hub Knowledge Center
  • Reporting Hub Knowledge Center
  • GETTING STARTED
    • Required Azure Services
    • Deployment Step-by-Step
      • Self-Serve Guided Install
      • Enable Power BI Service Settings
      • Configure Reporting Hub App Settings
      • Set Your Home Page
    • Azure Marketplace Install
  • CONCEPTS
    • Reporting Hub Architecture
    • AaaS end-to-end Architecture
    • Security & Trust Center
  • TUTORIALS
    • Azure Portal Administration
    • App Settings
      • Tenant Admin
        • Tenant Switching
      • Managing Your Subscription
      • Authentication Admin
      • Language Admin
      • SMTP Setup
      • Payment Provider Integrations
      • Notifications Admin
    • Embedded Capacity Admin
      • Switching to a Fabric Capacity
    • Connect Power BI Workspaces
    • Customize Theme
      • Branding (Images and Text)
      • Theme and Layout
      • Colors
        • Colors Overview
      • Fonts
    • Managing Content
      • The Manage Navigation Menu
      • Adding a Category
      • Embedding Power BI Content
      • Row Level Security
      • Search Tags
      • Content Page Options
      • Embedding a URL Page
      • Create Embed URL Links
    • Report Options
      • Create Report Bookmarks
      • Schedule Email Reports
      • Favorites
    • Managing Your Gateway
    • User Management
      • Managing User Access
      • Managing Groups
      • Managing Users in Entra ID
    • Secondary Environment (Test/Prod)
    • Embed the Reporting Hub in Your App
    • Usage Analytics
      • App Usage Tracking with Google Analytics
      • App Usage Tracking with SQL DB
    • App Performance
    • Azure Resource Monitoring
    • Self-Serve Guided Updates
  • Reference
    • What's new in the Reporting Hub?
    • Troubleshooting
    • Support Runbooks
      • Critical System Outage (L1)
      • Users Unable to Access (L2)
      • Content Not Available (L2)
      • Application is slow/getting slower (L2)
      • Capacity not starting/stopping automatically
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  1. GETTING STARTED

Required Azure Services

Everything you need to deploy the Reporting Hub

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The Reporting Hub is a cloud based web application that is installed and deployed directly to your Azure Environment. In order to deploy the Reporting Hub the following Azure Services are required.

Good to know: The Reporting Hub Installer will install and properly configure all required Azure resources along with the application itself with your Azure Resource Group. If preferred, you can also manually install the Azure resources.

Azure Services Required

Please note: Any and all Azure services are not included within the Reporting Hub subscription. These services are deployed to your organizations' Azure instance and will fall under your Azure subscription. Any and all Azure subscription fees are the responsibility of your organization.

Fabric Capacity/Power BI Embedded Capacity

The Reporting Hub is a plug 'n' play, no-code solution for Power BI embedded analytics. The Capacity (Power BI Embedded Capacity or Microsoft Fabric Capacity) allows you to share your Power BI content with users who don't have a Power BI or Microsoft license. Both Fabric and Power BI Embedded Capacities are capacity-based licenses, which means you are paying for a dedicated amount of computing resources vs. a specific number of users. We recommend organizations start with a F2 node and scale according to need. For more information on pricing and capacity planning, please refer to the Microsoft documentation link below.

Good to know: The Reporting Hub Capacity Manager will allow you to reduce this monthly capacity cost by programmatically activating and pausing your Capacity based on usage. By default, the Reporting Hub will keep your Capacity paused when not in use. When your capacity is paused, you will not incur costs.

NEW Fabric Capacities are now supported! With Reporting Hub version 6.4, you can now take advantage of Microsoft's new Fabric Capacities with your Reporting Hub.

We recommend using the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app to monitor your Fabric usage.

Azure App Service

An Azure App Service is a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching and scaling for web apps within Azure. The Reporting Hub application instance is deployed and hosted to this App Service within your Azure environment. We recommend a S1 instance for production scenarios. Please refer to the Microsoft documentation link below for more information.

Please note: The minimum App Service tier required is a B1 Basic Service Plan. The Free or Shared plans WILL NOT support the application.

Azure SQL Database

An Azure SQL Database is required to store the Reporting Hub application configuration, log and audit files. This database is very small and can run on the lowest database tier available in Azure. If your organization does not have an exiting Azure SQL instance, we recommend a single database 'Basic' Service Tier and 'DTU' Purchase model. For more information on region specific pricing please refer to the Microsoft documentation link below.

Azure Translator

The Reporting Hub is a multi-language application that can be configured into any language. The Azure Translator service is used to complete language translation. There is no cost to this service as the Reporting Hub leverages the free service instance only. This service is required even if you do not plan on using the multi-languages feature.

What if I don't have an Azure Instance?

No Azure? No problem!

All you need to do is follow the link below to set up a Pay As You Go Azure account to get started. Once you have an Azure subscription in place you can proceed with deploying the Reporting Hub.

Visit our page for more details on Power BI Embedded Capacity.

Embedded Capacity Admin
Fabric Capacity or Power BI Embedded Capacity
Azure App Service
Azure SQL Database
Azure Translator (Free)
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