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Programatically start/stop Azure PowerBI capacity for PowerBI Embedded
Hi all.
Here is the documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/capacities
Here is guide for setting up Postman:
https://www.codit.eu/blog/2017/03/14/authenticate-postman-against-azure-service-management-api/
Wish you well!
Goddamn hate Azure by now though.... hope that changesI found the REST api documented here. It seems to be working fine.
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.
Hi all.
Here is the documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/capacities
Here is guide for setting up Postman:
https://www.codit.eu/blog/2017/03/14/authenticate-postman-against-azure-service-management-api/
Wish you well!
Goddamn hate Azure by now though.... hope that changes
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.
Hi.
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Low volume scenarios with pausing the SKUs are cheap? 1$ /hour on a minute basis for A1 core.
Just create many resources for different tiers of users maybe?
* 1 tier A1 for everyday use like maybe marketing and purchasing.
* 1 tier A6 for accounting/strategy/logistics desicions to use at Quarterly critical business moments?
Start/Stop upon Report render in your app.
Depends if you have to start services for 500-100 users at different times and such though..
If you don't need the ability for Crossfiltering, data discovery, edit and save cababilities and seamless Excel 2016/PowerPoint 2016 compatability then yeah Power BI is not the only way: Mongo dB Node.js backend - Angular 5 Frontend - Some java graphs like: https://www.fusioncharts.com/dev/chart-guide/pie-and-doughnut-charts/creating-pie-and-doughnut-charts.html
-----My story-----
My struggles with Power BI embedded has also been beyond reasonable 2weeks now.
After 45 mails, 3 calls and 4 Microsoft support contacts I finally got a tech that knew a thing or two about Azure and Power BI Embedded.
Microsoft Sign in - auto created accounts based on outlook accounts, created personal accounts instead of work/edu, Workspace Collections was still visible and available in Azure with documentation being outdated and not showing the new steps to take.
I have incorrectly managed via backdoor Microsoft CLI commands from Powershell create all the old resources but at the end nothing worked since Workspace Collections and Workspaces had been removed and I just received errors.
The next steps to take are scary and I fear will be as troublesome: How does Power BI PRO integrate with the new Embedded SKU solution. Almost all videos "GuyInTheCube" and Microsoft Docs/videos showcase the pre 2017-07-01 ways of embedding Reports.
If I ever get through this hell.. I will defenitely post a complete video on Youtube named "Pitfalls of Azure and Power BI Embedded - a complete Step by Step guide"Frankly, we've spent more on trying to wire up embedded than we did on creating the functionality and still have no clue that what we have running is maintainable or proper licensing, etc. I've yet to find anyone at MS that really has the full picture on this.
I fear your video may be an extended length version since it focuses on "pitfalls"! PowerBI is not a bad tool but if you can't use it in real-world scenarios, it is not of value.
We're an ISV and would like to use it to replace some dashboards we have done using Google visualizations but keep hitting brickwalls. MS pricing takes the view, it seems, that PowerBI is going to be a monolithic solution. We just want to use it just as part of complex applications we develop and sometimes to quickly put together complex data we have in SQL for easier consumption by data analysts that work at our customer locations. I even get conflicting information from supposed licensing gurus that sell Office 365 as to whether PowerBI is part of E3 licensing or not. MS hurts themselves by making this so frustratingly obtuse and difficult, IMHO.