topic Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address in Developer

Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:29:22 GMT

I want to send an update to a specific email address if a data set from anyone within my team fails their scheduled refresh. For now, only the report owner receives these messages, but this is inconvenient if that person is not in the office. Hence, I created a generic email that my whole team has access to.

However, I want to know if I can automatically update all data sets within a workspace to send refresh failure notification to this email address instead of the data set owner. I know I can enable/disable the email notifications, but I do not know if I can set these notifications to a specific email address.

Thanks!!

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

Greg_Deckler — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:12:51 GMT

Hmm, there are definitely options in and around dataset refreshes in the API but I don't see anything to change the email address being sent to:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/updaterefreshschedule#schedulenotifyoption

You could take over ownership:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/takeoveringroup

You might also check out the new functionality in PowerAutomate: https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/search/?q=power%20bi

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

KoenVdB — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:46:48 GMT

Hi, Is there any news on having the possibility to update the notification email address when a refresh fails?

we're deploying the datasets using a service principal, and it would be nice to set the notification addresses also with an API call, without using some other tools.

thanks

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

tpapp — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:38:56 GMT

7 month later I also can't find a way to set the notification email address programatically.

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

charlieswing — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:59:54 GMT

I would like to also chime in and say how helpful it would be to add a way to update/set contacts to be notified on refresh failures in a programmatic way. The Update Refresh Schedule api is very nice but the only thing it seems to leave out is the ability to add contacts. Why is this? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets/update-refresh-schedule

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:14:47 GMT

I was hoping to get this information as well.

I wrote a powershell script that captures the state of the datasets so that if they change at a later date, we can roll it back. However, Refresh Failure Notifications values are not returned from the Power BI API's GET "Scheduled Refresh" requests, and there's no token in the API for sending them via PATCH.

We need a way to retrieve and assign emails that appear for "These Contacts" programatically. Is the API documentation incomplete or does this functionality not available yet?

Re: Use API to set refresh failure notification email address

Josh641 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:25:26 GMT

Agreed, this would be very helpful.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the list of notification emails using the API? (or another method like sempy).

It would help a lot with auditing our environment, as we currently don't have a way of knowing (at scale) what is failing to refresh without notifying anyone.