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Hi,
I am taking data from M language query from Azure Application insights. But while refreshing the data, we are getting error (500: internal server error).
Below is the error i am getting from power bi. But now able to understand the issue.
DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://api.applicationinsights.io/v1/apps/22128845-03d6-4b8a-ba5e-71b1c5ed509e/query?query=pageViews%0A%7C%20where%20timestamp%20%3E%3D%20datetime%282018-02-07T14%3A59%3A59.999Z%29%20and%20timestamp%20%3C%20datetime%282018-02-14T15%3A00%3A00.001Z%29%0A%7C%20where%20%28itemType%20%3D%3D%20%27pageView%27%20and%20%28timestamp%20%3E%3D%20datetime%282018-02-07T15%3A00%3A00.000Z%29%20and%20timestamp%20%3C%3D%20datetime%282018-02-14T15%3A00%3A00.000Z%29%29%29%0A%7C%20top%201000%20by%20timestamp%20desc%0A&x-ms-app=AAPBI&prefer=ai.response-thinning%3Dtrue' (500): Internal Server Error
Details:
DataSourceKind=Web
DataSourcePath=https://api.applicationinsights.io/v1/apps/22128845-03d6-4b8a-ba5e-71b1c5ed509e/query
Url=https://api.applicationinsights.io/v1/apps/22128845-03d6-4b8a-ba5e-71b1c5ed509e/query?query=pageViews%0A%7C%20where%20timestamp%20%3E%3D%20datetime%282018-02-07T14%3A59%3A59.999Z%29%20and%20timestamp%20%3C%20datetime%282018-02-14T15%3A00%3A00.001Z%29%0A%7C%20where%20%28itemType%20%3D%3D%20%27pageView%27%20and%20%28timestamp%20%3E%3D%20datetime%282018-02-07T15%3A00%3A00.000Z%29%20and%20timestamp%20%3C%3D%20datetime%282018-02-14T15%3A00%3A00.000Z%29%29%29%0A%7C%20top%201000%20by%20timestamp%20desc%0A&x-ms-app=AAPBI&prefer=ai.response-thinning%3DtrueBelow is the source code i am using:
let AnalyticsQuery =
let Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.applicationinsights.io/v1/apps/22128845-03d6-4b8a-ba5e-71b1c5ed509e/query",
[Query=[#"query"="pageViews
| where timestamp >= datetime(2018-02-07T14:59:59.999Z) and timestamp < datetime(2018-02-14T15:00:00.001Z)
| where (itemType == 'pageView' and (timestamp >= datetime(2018-02-07T15:00:00.000Z) and timestamp <= datetime(2018-02-14T15:00:00.000Z)))
| top 1000 by timestamp desc
",#"x-ms-app"="AAPBI",#"prefer"="ai.response-thinning=true"],Timeout=#duration(1,0,4,0)])),
TypeMap = #table(
{ "AnalyticsTypes", "Type" },
{
{ "string", Text.Type },
{ "int", Int32.Type },
{ "long", Int64.Type },
{ "real", Double.Type },
{ "timespan", Duration.Type },
{ "datetime", DateTimeZone.Type },
{ "bool", Logical.Type },
{ "guid", Text.Type },
{ "dynamic", Text.Type }
}),
DataTable = Source[tables]{0},
Columns = Table.FromRecords(DataTable[columns]),
ColumnsWithType = Table.Join(Columns, {"type"}, TypeMap , {"AnalyticsTypes"}),
Rows = Table.FromRows(DataTable[rows], Columns[name]),
Table = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Rows, Table.ToList(ColumnsWithType, (c) => { c{0}, c{3}}))
in
Table
in
AnalyticsQuery
Can anyone please help what is wrong here? How we can get the data refreshed?
Any help with this is really appreciated!
Thanks,
Did you figure it out? I am getting the same error...
@sudhak Are you using a gateway? I don't recall when the change was implemented, but it was awhile ago that you need a gateway when using web.contents i believe.
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