How do I cancel a dataflow gen2 refresh?

[prathyoo]

My dataflow gen2 refresh has been going on for the last two hours. How can I cancel the refresh?

Regards

[Thayerthompson]

Has a solution been found for this issue? We have created a Dataflow Gen 2 process that features a number of queries. When attempting to publish a table, we've received an error that it has exceeded our workspace capacity. We are unable to cancel the refresh, nor delete the dataflow. 

[pallavi_r]

Hi @Thayerthompson ,

If the cancel option not appearing in the service, then seems like you need to go through this approach provided by Sandeep Pawar.

https://fabric.guru/cancelling-dataflow-gen2-refresh

If this post helps, please accept this as a solution. Appreciate your kudos.

Thanks,

Pallavi

[FergusN]

So how do we deal with a long running process ? I suspect its never going to stop as it took 12 min before and we are on 2 hours now. There is not much work to be done as its a fairly small file to be loaded . Feels like the wheels have come off

[webchris]

@jwelch  @FergusN 

This is still an open issue. I thought there would be a solution.

Unfortunately, I have another flow running for 24 hours now and still cannot be stopped. 😞

[webchris]

I just got the information from a Microsoft Employee that they are working on a "Cancel Execution" feature for Dataflows. So I think it will be there in one of the next releases...

[webchris]

Wow, I have a Fabric Dataflow Gen2 that runs for 5 hours now. It does not produce anything meaningful... 

Will it be running till the 'cancel' - option has been implemented?

Will we be charged for the computation time? What's the price?

Thanks for solving this.

[Rarely]

I've had the same problem, but my gen 2 DF was in a pipeline.
I was able to cancel the pipeline which failed the DF.
ta

[ScottPowell]

I don't think currently there is a way to cancel. I'd create an idea in the Ideas area - definitely needed.

Scott

[prathyoo]

I have found a solution using the power bi api and power automate -

[jwelch]

@prathyoo I don't believe that is actually cancelling the dataflow. Cancelling is not a supported operation for Gen2 Dataflows yet - it's still in the works. 

I'm pretty sure that is only changing metadata, and shouldn't be used like that as there will likely be unintended consequences.