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NielsT
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Best practice to load data from ElasticSearch to PowerBI

I'm trying to get data out of ElasticSearch and into PowerBI. What is the best practice to extract data?

I have already tried the script below but this gives a time out error. I think the table is loaded first, before the filter is applied (Number of rows). It's a table with a lot of rows.

 

let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://dashboard.xxxxx.com/api/search/lwqanda")),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"QandAID", "ActionID", "QuestionID", "AnswerID", "Description", "Hyperlink"}, {"QandAID", "ActionID", "QuestionID", "AnswerID", "Description", "Hyperlink"}),
#"Kept Last Rows" = Table.LastN(#"Expanded Column1", NumberOfRows)
in
#"Kept Last Rows"

 

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Table

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* There is no date/time field in the table.

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Anonymous
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Hi @NielsT ,

 

1. You could try to firstly keep the Top100 rows before covert to table or expand.

2. Please specify timeout interval in Advanced Editor manually, for example

Eyelyn9_0-1647482968451.png

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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Hi @NielsT ,

 

1. You could try to firstly keep the Top100 rows before covert to table or expand.

2. Please specify timeout interval in Advanced Editor manually, for example

Eyelyn9_0-1647482968451.png

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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