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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Dataflow intermittent long-running refresh. Not enough detail in logs to thoroughly troubleshoot.

We have been experiencing intermittent issues with a certain dataflow in the service that will randomly run much longer than usual for what seems like no apparent reason.  This particular dataflow is...
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Anonymous
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3 years ago

I will try that.  Thank you for the suggestion.

The primary complaint is that the Service and logs fail to provide sufficient information to easily determine the root cause.  If it's a prioritization issue, it would be nice to see that detailed out somewhere.  Running these tests may not lead to a definitive answer, which puts me right back at square one.  😑

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cassidy
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3 years ago

Oh I hear you. A lot of BI Service is "magic optimization", which both allows low experience folks to do great things ( me ), but at the same time will not reveal what's really happening (especially around refreshing).

 

For example, Dataset refreshes are also like a black box, except at least one helpful person figured out how to analyze the progress and display bottlenecks https://dax.tips/2021/02/15/visualise-your-power-bi-refresh/