Power BI Embedded - Programmatic service management

[insoldev]

Hi there- apologies if I have missed an announcement.

A couple of the guys from the Power BI product team posted a few months ago that it was in the works that programmatic management of the Power BI azure service was in the works (apologies if I'm getting the terminology wrong). 

We are using the old embedded service, and we're unable to make the switch until this is in place. Is there any documentation anywhere on when we should expect this?

[v-ljerr-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @insoldev,

According to this blog, the Power BI Embedded Azure Resource Manager REST API  should be available now. 

Azure Resource Manager API

The release of the new Azure capacities for Power BI Embedded in October enables ISVs to enjoy the full elasticity of an Azure resource. ISVs can now pause or resume capacity, scale up or down and pay for hourly usage only. To fully leverage this capability, those actions need to occur programmatically.

So now, as promised, we are releasing Azure Resource Management APIs to do all these actions automatically. These are all the actions you can perform using the ARM API:

• Scale up/ down
• Pause/ start resource
• Create/ Delete resource
• Get capacity information
• Update capacity
• Get capacity list in a resource group/ subscription

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Regards