You can generate SQL Server Profiler trace files for diagnostic purposes from Power BI Desktop, as Kasper shows here, but these traces don’t show any information about refreshes as far as I can see.

To view the Showplan XML Statistics Profile event file in SQL Server Management Studio, on the File menu, point to Open, and select File. Browse to the directory where you saved the Showplan XML ...

Discover how to limit the size of the trace file in SQL Server Profiler and how to specify whether the file rolls over when it reaches maximum size. [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Use the following procedure ...

Any serious Power BI developer should have it installed already, but if you have an older version you may need to update it to get the features I talk about in this post. You can generate SQL Server ...