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salem_wafi
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2 years ago
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Unable to Refresh multiple (API) Web Queries that all use the same offline access token

I have a PowerBI Desktop file that has 17 power queries and all of them request the same server "www.example.com/graphql/..." with the same offline access token (p.s. the server uses Keycloak for authentication/authorization).

This is an example of one of the 17 queries API calls:

 


But the problem is when I click on refresh to refresh all of these queries it starts loading for like 3-10 minutes (based on internet speed and server load I assume)

And after waiting one of two happens.
either it refreshes all the data correctly or sometimes it fails due to timeout error:

 

 

 

My question now is how to avoid the timeout error that sometimes happens. 

  • salem_wafi's avatar
    salem_wafi
    2 years ago

    Anonymous 
    Actually, I was able to find another solution,

    I had to disable the parallel loading so that it would send one request at a time:


    it seems our server gets busier and slower when processing all of these parallel requests simultaneously, which causes it to hit the 100-second Cloudflare timeout for some of them.

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    Anonymous
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    Hi salem_wafi 

    Try  adding a "timeout" parameter in Web.Contents() function. Here is a similar case for your reference
    Web.Contents - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn
    Solved: Query Timeout on update - Microsoft Fabric Community

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    • salem_wafi's avatar
      salem_wafi
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      Thanks Anonymous 
      I tried that, but now it throws 524 because Cloudflare on the server timeout at 100 seconds, and that can't be changed.
      Is there a workaround for that?

       

      • salem_wafi's avatar
        salem_wafi
        Frequent Visitor

        Anonymous 
        Actually, I was able to find another solution,

        I had to disable the parallel loading so that it would send one request at a time:


        it seems our server gets busier and slower when processing all of these parallel requests simultaneously, which causes it to hit the 100-second Cloudflare timeout for some of them.