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2meteralex
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Dataflow Gen2 refreshing randomly takes forever

Hello together!

 

I am currently facing a problem with Gen2 Dataflows in Fabric. After being published, the Dataflow refreshes itself. When this happens, there is a slight chance that refreshing takes ages (loading for 5 hrs now), although it only took a couple of minutes the times before this weird behaviour occured.

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This does seem like an error to me, as there is no obvious explanation (increase in complexity, renaming whatsoever) for the long loading times. Is there a way to fix it or anything i need to pay attention to that might cause this kind of behaviour? Or could it just be a bug? 

The 1 table i wanna add to a lakehouse is 5 columns by approx. 25.000 rows, so not too large either. Data types have been declared for each column.

 

Thanks in advance for your tips.

Best,

Alex

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lbendlin
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What else is happening on that capacity?

There's a bunch of Dataflows, Gen1 and 2, semantic Models, Reports, and 2 Lakehouses in the same Workspace. A Colleague of mine also recently deployed GIT as a version management tool. Could Git have any influence on this? I thought, as Dataflows aren't supportet by GIT yet anyways, the problem with the Dataflow doesn't relate to that.

I would analyze the living daylights out of the Fabric Capacity Metrics app for that capacity. See if you can spot the biggest CU consumers.

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