Power BI Embedded capacity drains

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I've setup a Power BI Embedded service which we use to provide Power BI reports to Clients outisde of our organization. The problem I'm having is that the resource memory is always being used at around 2GB even though no users are looking at the reports.

Do you have any experience with this and maybe know about possible leeches that are draining the Memory? We currently have one virtual core for the service, which seemed sufficient as there are less than 10 users of Power BI reports.

[Anonymous]

Azure has logs of usage. The memory isn't always used at exactly 2GB sometimes it goes down to 1.6 or so, but still something is always draining it and I can't find the "leech"...

[Jayendran]

Hi @Anonymous 

I've tested the scenario in my side with provisoning a new PBI Embedded Capacity

• Create a new PBI Embedded capacity (A1)
• Not assigned this capacity to any of my workspace

This is the metrics i get

By default even without having any workspace assignment, the capacity will remains between 1.6-1.8 GB

The dotted lines indicate at the time the capacity is creating and the dark blue line indicates the inital startup memery required for the pbi embedded capacity.

So, the conclusion is by default pbi emb capacity requires some memory (~2GB) to keep itself running , there is no leech which drains the capacity the capacity itself requries this much memory to keep running always

[Jayendran]

Hi @Anonymous 

Do you have any update ? If my replay helps please accept it as answer/giving kudos which will help other community members

[Anonymous]

Microsoft Power BI team declined that there is a basic upkeep memory usage. Basically whenever a report is used in Embedded capacity it stays in the memory kind of forever until additional space is needed and then it can be evicted.

[Jayendran]

Hi @Anonymous  where are you checked that resource memory is always used 2 GB ?