Icon category · 80 icons

Status and alert icons for Power BI

Status icons answer 'is this OK?': done, at risk, failed, needs attention. They are the most used icons in operational reports, mostly inside tables with conditional formatting.

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80 icons

Alert

Fluent · MIT · #2563EB

Copy for Power BI

Icon Alert =
VAR IconColour = "%232563EB" -- write # as %23 inside a data URI
RETURN
    "data:image/svg+xml;utf8," &
    "<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 24 24' color='" & IconColour & "' fill='" & IconColour & "' width='24' height='24'><path d='M12 2a7.5 7.5 0 0 1 7.5 7.25v4.35l1.38 3.15a1.25 1.25 0 0 1-1.15 1.75H15a3 3 0 0 1-6 .18v-.18H4.27a1.25 1.25 0 0 1-1.14-1.75L4.5 13.6V9.5C4.5 5.35 7.85 2 12 2m1.5 16.5h-3a1.5 1.5 0 0 0 3 .15zM12 3.5c-3.32 0-6 2.67-6 6v4.4L4.66 17h14.7L18 13.9V9.29a6 6 0 0 0-6-5.78'/></svg>"

DAX measure and data URI: set the measure's Data category to Image URL. Theme icon JSON: paste its iconsblock into your current theme JSON and import that with Design → Import theme (older builds: View → Themes → Browse for themes), then pick the icon in Conditional formatting → Icons. Importing the icons-only file on its own replaces your theme, so your colours and text styles fall back to Power BI's defaults.

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Theme JSON holds only the icons: merge its icons block into your current theme before importing, or your theme's colours reset.

Add up to 24 icons (for example good / neutral / bad) to export them together.

Using status & alerts icons in Power BI

Where status & alerts icons earn their place in a report, and how to keep them readable.

A traffic light needs three different shapes, not three colours of one shape: a check, a warning triangle and a cross survive colour blindness, greyscale printing and a projector in a bright room.

Decide whether 'no data' is a status. A blank or a dash icon for missing values stops readers mistaking an empty row for a pass.

Power BI tip: Import a theme with three of these icons in its 'icons' block, then Conditional formatting → Icons → Rules: they appear alongside Power BI's built-in Shapes and Indicators sets.

Good uses

RAG status columns
SLA met / missed flags
Data-quality checks
Alert and notification counts

Three steps from this page to your report

01
Pick and colour
Choose one of the status & alerts icons below and set its colour to match your theme.
02
Copy the format you need
SVG or PNG for Image visuals and button icons; the DAX measure or data URI for tables, matrices and cards; theme icon JSON for conditional formatting.
03
Bind it in Power BI
For a measure, set Measure tools → Data category to Image URL. For theme icons, import the theme and choose the icon in Conditional formatting → Icons.

Want the icon next to a formatted value with a target colour? The free DAX SVG measure builder draws icon + value cards, and the conditional formatting icons recipe walks through custom icon sets end to end.

Questions about these icons

Can I use these status & alerts icons in commercial Power BI reports?

Yes. They come from open-source sets under the MIT or ISC licence (23 from Lucide, 23 from Tabler Icons, 11 from Heroicons, 23 from Fluent UI System Icons), which allow commercial use. Keep the licence notice when you redistribute the icon files themselves; the full texts are on the licence page. Licence texts · licence file (.txt)

Why does my DAX icon show as text?

The measure's Data category must be Image URL (Measure tools → Data category). Also check that every # in the SVG is written as %23, which the copied measure already does.