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Ant_C
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Power Automate - Power BI DAX Query timeout

Hello,

I have a Power Automate flow in which I use a "Run query against a dataset" action for Power BI.

The query is a bit long to run (around 2.5 minutes, tested it in DAX Studio) and I get a timeout :

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It seems there is a 2 min timeout duration for the request :

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Then it seems to retry, but since my query is longer than the timeout value, it keeps retrying without success.

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I've tried modifying the timeout duration to 10 minutes in the settings but that didn't change anything 

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This setting doesn't impact request timeout according to the description, but I tried it anyways 😅


I also tried the same query but on a smaller scope of data and it works fine.

How can I increase the timeout duration of the request ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Best regards

 

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lbendlin
Super User
Super User

Might be worth trying to do this via your own custom connector.  

 

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Just to see if you also hit the two minute timeout.

 

In general any query that runs longer than 5 seconds "has room for improvement".

Thanks for the reply.

Any guide online on how to create this custom connector, or how you did it ? We currently don't have any service principal so I don't know if it's possible without it

Best regards

You don't need a service principal, but it surely makes life a little easier.

 

Here's the guide:  Custom connectors overview | Microsoft Learn

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