Tenant usage analytics from the Admin Activity Events API for one UTC day: total events, distinct users, top activities, top viewed reports, top users. Requires Fabric admin (28-day retention). Defaults to yesterday (today is incomplete).
AI agents call usage_and_orphan_analytics to retrieve information from Power BI MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and retrieves administrative usage analytics from Power BI's Admin Activity Events API. While it requires Fabric admin privileges, the operation itself is read-only and retrieves aggregate usage telemetry and reporting metrics. It has no capability to modify, delete, or execute code.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it provides 'Tenant usage analytics from the Admin Activity Events API' and retrieves 'total events, distinct users, top activities, top viewed reports, top users' — all data retrieval operations with no modification capability…
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Tenant usage analytics from the Admin Activity Events API for one UTC day: total events, distinct users, top activities, top viewed reports, top users. Requires Fabric admin (28-day retention). Defaults to yesterday (today is incomplete). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Power BI MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Power BI MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for usage_and_orphan_analytics: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Power BI MCP Server. Nothing to install.
usage_and_orphan_analytics is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the usage_and_orphan_analytics rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for usage_and_orphan_analytics. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
usage_and_orphan_analytics is provided by the Power BI MCP Server MCP server (sulaiman013/powerbi-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.