Power BI + Xano – 502 error

Hi Om_Bhartiya,

for such "heavy" data work I would recommend taking the load from Power BI more in the direction of a backend which is more suitable for your case. Here are two options depending on your requirements and constraints and a third one if you need Power BI workload capabilities.

Option 1: Data warehouse layer (Best practice)

• Set up a scheduled ETL process (Azure Data Factory, Power Automate, Python script) to sync Xano data to a database (Azure SQL, Postgres, Snowflake)
• Power BI connects to this database via DirectQuery Import or Direct Lake

Option 2: Xano database access (if available)

• Check if Xano Enterprise offers direct read-only database access for analytics
• Connect Power BI directly to the underlying database

Option 3: Dataflows as middleware

• Use Power BI Dataflows to pull from Xano API in smaller batches
• Store results in Dataflows with incremental refresh
• Connect reports to Dataflows instead of direct API
• Provides caching layer between API and reports

I hope this helps!

Best regards!

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