Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Score big with last-minute savings on the final tickets to FabCon Vienna. Secure your discount

Reply
SanderTK
Advocate II
Advocate II

PowerBI API throttled

I am attempting to export reports for multiple clients with each multiple parameters to pdf using the PowerBIRestMethod PowerShell command.

I first loop through the clients and then for each client I try to update the parameter and export the report.

The problem is that after about 30 parameter updates I get the following error:

 

Invoke-PowerBIRestMethod : One or more errors occurred. ({
  "code": "ActivityLimitReached",
  "message": "UpdateDatasetParameters on xxx-xxxx-xxx throttled"
})

 

I tried upgrading the Premium SKU but this has not changed anything.

Does anyone know what the limits of this API/the Premium SKU is?

There does not seem to be any documentation on this limitation. 

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

It clearly states here Power BI Premium capacity load, overload, and autoscale - Power BI | Microsoft Learn that your requests will be treated as second class citizens.

View solution in original post

3 REPLIES 3
lbendlin
Super User
Super User

It does not mention anything about a maximum amount of parameter updates in the documentation for the API call: Update Parameters In Group 
It is also not an issue with exceeding the maximum amount of refreshes in a day (seeing as though it needs to refresh the semantic model after every parameter update API call) because the error specifically happens when I try to update the parameter; not when I try to refresh the semantic model afterwards.

In the linked documentation I also find no potential issues that my export script would run into.

It clearly states here Power BI Premium capacity load, overload, and autoscale - Power BI | Microsoft Learn that your requests will be treated as second class citizens.

Helpful resources

Announcements
August Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - August 2025

Check out the August 2025 Power BI update to learn about new features.

August 2025 community update carousel

Fabric Community Update - August 2025

Find out what's new and trending in the Fabric community.

Top Solution Authors