Power BI API 429 too many requests error

[ejQap]

Hey, 

We use Power BI embedded service and also use push dataset API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/push-datasets) + other apis (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/groups) to refresh the datasets and give info about the datasets created and pushed.

Recently, we get some 429 error code ('You have exceeded the amount of requests allowed in the current time frame and further requests will fail.) while doing POST or GET requests. I can't find any official documentation about the throttling limit.

Does anyone can provide more insights about the API throttling limit?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi  @ejQap ,

As explained in the official documentation:

When a user sends a number of requests that exceeds a predetermined limit during a time window, Power BI throttles any further requests from that user for a short period.

When applications experience throttling, Power BI returns an HTTP status code 429 (Too many requests) with a Retry-After HTTP header in the response, indicating how many seconds the calling application has to wait before making a new request.

Power BI REST APIs for embedded analytics and automation - Power BI REST API | Microsoft Learn

You can check the following link about the limitations of the Power BI Rest API, it may be a Power BI application limitation to prevent overuse of resources, you can wait for a defined period of time before retrying the request:

Power BI REST APIs push semantic model limitations - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Please check out the following threads that are having the same problem as you and hopefully they will be helpful.

Solved: Streaming dataset - Error http 429 - Microsoft Fabric Community

powerbi - Power BI - dataset refresh completion data PowerShell - Stack Overflow

(429): Too Many Requests Error · Issue #39 · migueesc123/PowerBIRESTAPI · GitHub

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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