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Power BI Embedded capacity drains
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"...
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
Hi Anonymous
Do you have any update ? If my replay helps please accept it as answer/giving kudos which will help other community members
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.