Feature: Excel / Power BI export of the capacity dataset
Nobody has claimed this yet.
Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- data-visualization, documentation
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing CSV collectors and HTML dashboard entry points to understand the available schemas and datasets. Define the consolidated workbook sheets for the SKU catalogue, quota, AKS, zonal, and quota groups data, and clarify whether the optional Power BI template is in scope. Done means an opt-in, local-only export is documented while the HTML dashboard remains the default.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Alignment with toolkit principles
- This stays read-only by default — it does not mutate Azure resources, or (if a write is essential) it follows the opt-in,
-WhatIf/ShouldProcesspattern ofDeploy-QuotaGroups.ps1. - It works with Reader access for analysis (writes, if any, document their elevated roles).
- It introduces no telemetry and no data leaving the user's machine.
Problem / motivation
The dashboard is HTML-only. Many customers (and capacity-planning / finance teams) live in Excel
or Power BI and want to pivot, annotate and combine the data with their own. We already emit clean
CSVs, but there is no consolidated, relationship-ready export.
Proposed solution
Add an opt-in export path (read-only, local-only):
- A consolidated multi-sheet workbook (one sheet per dataset: SKU catalogue, quota, AKS, zonal,
quota groups) generated from the existing CSVs — no new data collection. - Optionally a Power BI template (
.pbit) wired to the CSV schemas the collectors already produce. - Documented as a post-processing step; the HTML dashboard remains the default.
Alternatives considered
- Tell users to import the raw CSVs themselves — works, but a curated workbook/template is far more
useful and keeps schemas in sync.
Area
Dashboard / reporting, Documentation
- Dominant language
- PowerShell
- Stars
- 5
- Forks
- 6
- Avg merge
- 3d 18h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
More from microsoft/capacity-toolkit
-
enhancement needs-triage
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
-
enhancement needs-triage
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
All issues in microsoft/capacity-toolkit
Similar issues
-
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 91/100
-
bug :bug:
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
-
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
epiforecasts/BVDOutbreakSize#888 · 1 comment ·
-
enhancement P3: gap query
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
jeffknupp/association#208 ·
-
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100