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8 years ago
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Programatically start/stop Azure PowerBI capacity for PowerBI Embedded

With the new start/stop capacity options on Azure for PowerBI, can I start and stop the capacity from a .net app or powershell? I understand that I can pause capacity in the Azure Portal, but would ...
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ckelbley
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8 years ago

I have had success using these API calls:

 

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/CAPACITY_NAME/resume?api-version=2017-10-01
POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/CAPACITY_NAME/suspend?api-version=2017-10-01

 

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Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago
ckelbley wrote:

I have had success using these API calls:

 

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/CAPACITY_NAME/resume?api-version=2017-10-01
POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/CAPACITY_NAME/suspend?api-version=2017-10-01

 

ckelbley

Could you share where you find those APIs, any documentations?

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    ckelbley
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    8 years ago

    I couldn't find any official documentation.  I just did some trial and error using Postman and tried different calls based on how the management APIs work for other resource types and looking at what the browser does when you click the pause/start button in the Azure portal.

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        Anonymous
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        8 years ago

        Awesome. Looks like that was published awhile ago, so don't know why I could not find it. Thanks for the help.

        While we're relatively new to PowerBI, I sure find that the pieces do not hang together very well. From an embedded standpoint, the pricing is just stupidly high for low volume scenarios. I have given up attempting to get one of my workspaces associated with a PowerBI instance. 3 people at MS failed to ever explain why, so we gave up.