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MaZoSR
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1 year ago
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API to fetch data gateway status

I am working on a solution that should monitor the status of the On-Premises Data Gateway, for which I'm using the Power BI REST API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/gateways/get-...
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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    1 year ago

    This API call has nothing to do with the health of the gateway.  You need to create your own telemetry on each of the gateway cluster members.

     

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    The gateway admin page may say "partially online"  even when you decided to disable some of the cluster members on purpose.  It may also say "online"  despite the fact that a cluster member may be misbehaving, leading to random request errors.

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lbendlin
Super User
1 year ago

This API call has nothing to do with the health of the gateway.  You need to create your own telemetry on each of the gateway cluster members.

 

For example:

 

 

 

 

The gateway admin page may say "partially online"  even when you decided to disable some of the cluster members on purpose.  It may also say "online"  despite the fact that a cluster member may be misbehaving, leading to random request errors.