Overview

The Liongard Power BI Data Connector comes with 2 dynamic functions for generating on-demand data and 5 prepopulated data tables that can be used for either building reports or as reference tables for your reports. The 5 tables included are Agents, Environments, Inspectors, Inspector Types, and Metrics.

Tables

• Agents
• Environments
• Inspectors
• Inspector Types
• Metrics

Functions

• Metric Evaluations
• System Metric Summary

Tables

Agents

The Agents table includes a list of all Agents from your Liongard instance.

Environments

The Environments table lists all Environments from your Liongard instance.

Inspectors

The Inspectors table provides a list of all configured Inspectors in your Liongard instance. Inspectors with an associated System ID have successfully returned data.

Inspector Types

The Inspector Types table includes a list of all Liongard Inspector Types. Use this table to select the Inspector Type ID for the System Metric Summary Function or as a reference table

Metrics

The Metrics table includes a list of all Metrics from your Liongard Instance.

Functions

To manually invoke the imported functions reference below, you must open the Power Query Editor. To open the Power Query Editor from the Power BI Desktop window, select the Home top-level menu and then the Transform data button from the ribbon.

Metric Evaluations

This feature allows you to pull Metric values from your Liongard instance.

This function needs an input of your Liongard Instance Region and a comma-separate list of Metric ID or UUIDs. Examples for each of the formats:

• ID: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• UUID: "aa4eef4d-3dc5-4b3d-9d8a-00c1d9b68065", "8c63a7ee-1abf-4541-8e46-33f694c8e045"

As shown below, when invoked, the function will return Metric Evaluation values for all systems for a particular Metric.

System Metric Summary

The System Metric Summary function is used to generate table data from Metrics evaluated in your Liongard platform. The function needs an input of your Liongard Instance Region and the ID of the Inspector Type for which you wish to return a Summary. You can optionally pass in the Environment ID for the systems you wish to only have returned

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Enabled Metrics

Metrics returned for the System Metric Summary function are only the Metrics in your Liongard platform that have their "Display" set to Enabled on the Admin > Metrics screen.

As shown below, when invoked, the function will return all evaluated values for Metrics enabled for a particular Inspector Type.

Enabling Metrics in Liongard

If you would like to access Metrics through the System Metric Summary in Power BI, you will need to enable them in Liongard. Follow the steps below to enable Metrics:

1. In Liongard, navigate to Admin > Metrics.
2. Set the "Display" toggle to "Enabled" for any Metric(s) you'd like to access in Power BI.

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Next Steps

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