Fabric and Power BI support options

This article describes the support options that are available to end users who have purchased Microsoft Fabric or Power BI. Power BI administrators and other admins in your organization have access to expanded support options. Read Commonly used Microsoft 365 admin center roles to learn more about who can manage service requests for your organization. To learn about Microsoft Fabric (Preview) for administrators, see Microsoft Fabric admin.

Get started with support

Many resources are available to help you identify, research, and solve issues. From the top menu bar, select the ? > Get Help to open the Fabric and Power BI Support site. The Fabric and Power BI support site has links to documentation, Community, known issues, troubleshooting, and a Support dashboard. If you Fabric or if you have a paid version of Power BI, options to contact Microsoft Support directly are available from the Help and support site.

Note

If you got your Power BI Pro or Premium-per-user (PPU) license through a guest affiliation with another organization, you can't contact support. Your license must be assigned directly by the organization that manages your work or school account to enable support options.

Get started with support for administrators

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Need help getting started with Power BI? Take advantage of the one-hour workshops offered by our partners and get a free consultation.

Admins can use the Help + support experience in the Power Platform Admin Center to get self-help solutions and to create a new service request. Before you contact Microsoft support, follow these steps:

Learn more about how admins can contact support for help with Microsoft 365 business products.

Before you contact support

Verify whether Microsoft support is your admin's preferred option when you need help. To check, select (?) from the page header in the Power BI service, then choose Get Help. If this selection takes you to Power BI support, you might use the following listed support options. Otherwise, you'll be directed to the preferred support option for your organization. If your product doesn't have a support contract, you'll receive a message that "This product is not supported."

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If Microsoft support is your admin's preferred option:

  1. Check for service outages or degradation at Power BI and Fabric Support.

  2. Check for known issues with Power BI or Fabric features.

  3. See if your issue has already been addressed by the Community.

  4. Review the Fabric troubleshooting documentation or the Power BI troubleshooting documentation.

  5. Find out which license you have. Select your profile picture from the page header to open your Account manager. For Power BI, if Pro account or Premium Per User account displays, you might use the following listed support options. For Fabric, all users might use the following listed support options.

    Screen capture showing license type displayed with account profile.

Connect with support

Support option Break-fix technical support Billing support Consulting and training Service level
(time to initial engagement)
Support channel
Community support: Web forums for users to get peer-to-peer support, guidance, and share solutions. Answers are provided by a global community of Power BI experts and Microsoft employees. X None, engagement is provided on a best-effort basis. Power BI Community
Power BI Pro end-user support: Basic technical support for end users creating and consuming content in Power BI. X One business day. Fabric support
Power BI Premium Per User end-user support: Technical and billing support for end users creating and consuming content in Power BI. X X One business day. Fabric support
Fabric user: technical and billing support for users creating in Fabric in Fabric capacities. X X One business day Fabric support
Fabric or Power BI Premium admin support: Technical support for administrators deploying and operating Power BI Premium capacities. X One business day or one hour, depending on severity of case.* Fabric support
OR
Power Platform admin center
Fabric or Power BI admin support: Technical and billing support for administrators of Power BI deployments at their organizations. To use this option, you must be a Power BI Administrator or be assigned a Microsoft 365 admin role that can manage service requests. X X One business day or one hour, depending on severity of case.* Power Platform admin center
Microsoft Premier support: An enterprise-grade approach to support, with account management, the option for on-site support, and services such as training and data model performance optimization. X X X Various, depending on offering and severity of case.* Customer Success Account Manager
OR
Power Platform admin center

* A one-hour SLA is available only through Sev A cases, which require justification of immediate, direct business impact from work stoppage in existing production reporting.

Power BI benefits for Microsoft Premier or Unified support contracts

With Microsoft Premier or Unified contract support, you also get the following benefits:

  • Account management
  • Option for on-site support
  • Health check, risk assessments, and reviews
  • Training and workshops
  • Developer support

As a Power BI customer, you can also take advantage of the following offerings for proactive support hours:

  • Power BI Assessment. A Microsoft-accredited Customer Engineer will diagnose potential issues and performance with your Power BI environment. The engineer will provide valuable guidance on recommended practices to improve the health and performance of your Power BI environment. At the end of this assessment, you'll receive a comprehensive Power BI report of results, a detailed best practice guidance deck, and a summary report tailored to your environment.

  • Activate Business Analytics with Power BI. This offering is designed to help you to implement a real-life scenario and enable Power BI for your organization. Work side-by-side with an expert over three days, developing a proof-of-concept in Power BI, with the objective of improving one of the following scenarios:

    • Scenario 1: Power BI Solution Development. Your organization already has a data warehouse or data marts in place, or your department wants to explore data that isn't in the corporate store yet. The support expert can prototype a Power BI solution that will connect to your data and extract meaningful insights using Power BI models and reports. Common data sources include Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DW), or on-premises data using Enterprise Data Gateway.
    • Scenario 2: Adoption, Governance, and Administration. The focus here is on establishing a framework for Power BI governance and operational processes. We'll review your infrastructure, discuss key components in typical Power BI deployments, and recommend practices for governance, administration, and management of Power BI.
    • Scenario 3: Enterprise Scale Data Analytics. The focus in this scenario is on developing Power BI Premium models or migrating existing AAS/SSAS models to Power BI. We consider key components, advantages, and limitations of Power BI Premium capacity management and migrations to Power BI Premium from existing enterprise analytics infrastructure.
  • WorkshopPLUS - Data AI: Business Analytics with Power BI. This workshop is a great introduction to Power BI, making it an excellent starting point for adoption or for ramping up your users. It will provide you with a complete overview of Power BI functionality and capabilities and covers both Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. You'll learn in detail how to build calculations and reports, transform data, and build a model. You'll also learn best practices around sharing and governing that content in the Power BI service. You can also expect many demonstrations and labs, so you can experiment and see the technology in action.

  • WorkshopPLUS - Data AI: Advanced Data Analytics with Power BI. This offering presents how you can implement the key principles of data modeling in Power BI, using tools such as Power BI Desktop and the accompanying cloud service for the publishing and consumption of Power BI assets. You'll develop reports, including DAX, and use premium capacities in Power BI. You'll also deal with advanced analytics involving AI components, Premium, and Data flows.

  • Power BI Clinic. This offering presents how you can optimize your Power BI workload. Use this clinic as a proactive service to help optimize performance before deploying Power BI, or as a reactive service to alleviate existing bottlenecks. You'll have an opportunity to work with a Microsoft SME (subject matter expert) on performance tuning and optimization of slow running Power BI reports, with a focus on report models and DAX. You'll also have an opportunity to work on slow semantic model refresh with a focus on refresh performance in the Power BI cloud service or Power BI Report Server.

Contact your Microsoft Customer Account Manager for details. If you don't already have a Microsoft Premier or Unified support contract, learn more at Premier and Unified support.