Measure Killer
a governance tool for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric
-Find and remove all unused columns and measures
-See where a column or measure is used (24 categories)
-Report and model best practice analysis
-Easily search all your DAX expressions
-Easily search all your M Code
-Get a tree view of your dependencies
-Export a documentation of your model and report
Free (Power BI Desktop)
Paid (Power BI Service)
Optimize and clean your shared Power BI semantic models
Everything from above
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Across all connected Power BI reports
Paginated Reports
Excel files
Downstream/composite models (incl. changes)
Give it a try
-Request a free trial
-Use our sample data built into Measure Killer
-Request a demo
-Add local files (e.g. Excel connected to semantic model)
-Full lineage view (see screenshot on top right)
-Incl. report-level measures
-Report views (last 30 days)
-Average report load times (in seconds)
-Run multiple models at once
New features in v2.9.2
Semantic model similarity score
Let's you find similar or even duplicate semantic models.
As you can see on the right side, we have one model that is a duplicate and then some other models that are very similar (80% similarity)
We can customize the weights (what should be compared, e.g. only the tables, measures, M expressions or other attributes)
The details can be seen on the right side (what is the
same, in case of 100%, or what is different, in case of
lower % numbers).
Power BI report similarity score
This is just like model similarity but with traits from the
report (pages, visuals, report-level measures etc.)
Table relations analysis
This brand-new feature offers a way to reduce complexity
of semantic models with many relationships to find out which
table can filter another table (via other tables in the data model).
It provides all filter paths between two tables.
Tenant Analysis (Scans your entire tenant)
-Tenant summary
-Model lineage and data source lineage
-Access / Permissions (users and groups)
-Semantic model metadata
-Dataflow metadata
-Report metadata
Tenant summary
-Shows all Power BI and Fabric items
-Provides a list of all workspaces and their items and users
Data Lineage (from data source -> report)
-Get an end-to-end lineage from data source to report across workspaces
-Also shows how many models and reports are connected to a source
-You can even search for tables in this view
Access tab
-Lists all users & AD/Entra groups and their permissions
-Shows all workspaces and who has access to them
-Provides detailed access rights to all Power BI and Fabric items
Semantic models
-Lists all your Power BI models with basic info (size, tables, columns, storage mode etc.)
-Refresh history (date, success/fail etc.), refresh schedule, avg duration
-Best practice analysis (BPA rules, can be customized, soon you can create your own rules too)
-Easily search through all DAX expressions (duplicate detection) and M code
Dataflows (Gen1 and Gen2)
-Lists all your Dataflows with basic info (type, workspace, number of queries)
-Refresh history (date, refresh/fail etc.), refresh schedule, avg duration
-Easily search through all M code
Apps
-Lists all Apps in your tenant (incl. org apps)
-Provides all audiences (incl. which reports belong to it, settings and users/groups assigned)
-Shows you how often each App has been consumed (opened in the last 30 days)
-Provides additional information like Contacts, reports, Excel files that are part of the app etc.
-Also includes contact information, last update as well as descriptions for each app
-Full information on App access (users, groups)
Reports
-Lists all your Power BI reports
-Shows report views and page views
-Number of pages, visuals, custom visuals (certified or not) and average report load times
-Report-level measures
Fabric Notebooks
-Lists all Notebooks, their location, for Fabric admins also who has access to them
-Gives you the lines of code per notebook
-Audit your Notebooks for individual packages or other keywords
What does Measure Killer detect?
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Visuals - including filters applied to visuals, on pages or the whole report.
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Artifacts only used in custom visuals
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Conditional formatting
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Any kind of measure (incl. report-level measures) or relationship
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Columns used exclusively in Power Query, e.g. in joins, appends, references etc.
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Calculated columns
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Calculated tables
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Row-level and object-level security (for OLS see compatibility below)
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Calculation groups
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Field parameters
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Visual calculations
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Column sorting, key columns, row labels
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Used in mobile view
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Used as dynamic M parameter or for change detection in DQ mode
What does not work?
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If you copy paste whole reports or individual pages and then only do some minor changes, this can in rare cases lead to false references (unfortunately this is an internal issue with Power BI Desktop which even exists with .pbir)
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Restrictive sensitivity labels (like "confidential") can lead to errors when analyzing local files. The tool can throw a message like "this is not a valid zip file"
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If you have a column and a measure with the same name and the column is used in a Paginated Report it will also wrongly show the measure as used in the same Paginated Rep.
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Personalized visuals are not detected
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Using M parameters for connecting to dataflows (lineage) do not show up in the lineage
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The "Explore this data (Preview)" feature is not detected for any type of usage
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Using a column only in query string parameters in the URL of a report is not detected
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DAX user-defined functions are not fully detected in Pro workspaces
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Hierarchies used in Paginated Reports are not taken into account
Measure Killer Compatibility
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✅ fully compatible
? limited compatibility
✗ currently not working
General:
✅ .pbix (Desktop and Desktop RS)
✅ .pbip (Power BI Project files - incl. Enhanced Report Layout)
✅ .pbit
✅ DirectQuery
✅ Composite models
✅ Downstream semantic models (paid versions only)
✅ Thin files / Live connection (paid versions only)
✅ Direct Lake (paid versions only)
✅ Paginated reports (paid versions only)
✅ Analyze in Excel on top of a semantic model (paid versions only)
✅ All connected reports in the Power BI Service (paid versions only)
✅ SSAS and AAS (Tabular only)
✗ Dashboards
✗ .bim files / models stored in a folder etc.
✗ Metrics (Goals)
✗ Exploration items
✗ Activators
Feature compatibility:
✅ Row-level security
✅ Object-level security (table with OLS is identified, columns are not)
✅ Calculation groups
✅ Field parameters
✅ Dynamic format strings
✅ Visual calculations
✅ KPIs (created in the tabular model)
Compatibility of visuals:
✅ Standard visuals (all, unless listed below)
✅ Icon Map
✅ Zebra BI visuals
✅ HTML VizCreator Cert
✅ HTML VizCreator Flex
✅ Balance Sheet Visual
? Other custom visuals (We have not tested Measure Killer for all custom visuals)
✗ Q&A visual
✗ Paginated report visual
✗ Metrics (Goals) visual
Measure Killer pricing
The free version can be used without any restrictions personally and commercially.
Go to the Download section to get started
To unlock paid features inside the application or to get priority support from the Measure Killer team, please purchase a license.
Want to deal with a U.S. entity? Check out resellers like Softchoice or SHI International Corp.
Measure Killer basics (analysis of a single model/report)
Removing unused columns and measures from a shared semantic model
Introduction to Tenant Analysis (scanning your whole Power BI / Fabric tenant)
Measure Killer Security Information and Documentation
Version 2.9.4
Please download our security whitepaper from here.
If you have questions about Measure Killer, you can always get in touch with us
E-Mail: gregor@brunner.bi
Measure Killer - Download & Changelog
Aktuelle Version 2.9.4
Store Version benötigt Admin-Rechte.
Release notes for 04/21/2026
Version 2.9.4
[FEATURES]
- Custom Calendar usage for columns (new Calendar feature in Power BI)
- KPI usage for all artifacts are now tracked in Measure Killer.
- UDFs metadata can now be analyzed for models in Pro Workspaces.
- Power BI REST API access tokens are now valid for the entire session (no re-authentication required).
- New status introduced: "Unused (remove manually)" for columns in calculated tables, report level measures, and other objects that cannot be removed automatically.
- New and improved execution log in Tenant Analysis and other modes.
[BUG FIXES]
- Missing datasource and gateway IDs in the Lineage tab.
- Error when adding Azure groups to workspaces in the Workspace Access window.
- SSL certification error caused by broken certificates.
- Issue where characters containing # were being erased from M queries in the UI and exports.
- Issue when fetching refresh events for Dataflows CI/CD Generation 2.
- Parsing error for Linked tables in M queries (Dataflows only).
- "Send dependencies upstream" failing for UDFs.
- Issue where rules were not processed before being verified when using Save/Load.
- Error when removing unused unloaded queries: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'Value'.
- Misclassification of some organizational custom visuals as standard visuals.
- RecursionError (maximum recursion depth exceeded) when using Save/Load.
- Single line let in statements causing M expression parsing error: list index out of range.
- Unexpected error during license validation: too many values to unpack.
[MISC]
- Added new columns to the Semantic Models tab in Tenant Analysis: Used Size, Potential Savings, and Total Size.
- Improved sovereign cloud settings.
- Added a cutoff to the downstream models with no relationship warning message.
- Improved report selection by displaying the full path in Single Model and Report mode.
- Added unsaved changes warning to the similarity weights selection window.
- Improved the "fully optimized" message for Clean TMDL / One Click.
- Improved display and visibility of DAX best practice violations.
- Removed saved token from the auth file.
- Separated runtime from session duration for notebooks.
- Added RLS support to Model Similarity.
- Added object IDs to tenant exports.
- When loading a .measurekiller file, its metadata (name, timestamp, owner) is displayed in the window title and execution log.