Dataflows cannot be trusted / Refresh issues

[philosopher]

Unfortunately, we'll have to drop all our dataflows, they cannot be trusted any more.
We've built tenths of dataflows, over SQLDW data source, with 5-6 daily refreshes.
We could live with an occasional refresh failure here and there, but the rate is no longer accepted.
They keep failing with errors like: Internal Service Error, We encountered an error please retry etc.
There are no issues with the datasource, no errors there, no timeouts, nothing.

Pity, DataFlows was a great idea but so poorly implemented.

Got to move on.

[apoprio]

(Error: We encountered an error while performing the refresh. Please try again. If the issue persists contact Support.)

Good morning everyone!!!
Here in our company, we have the best practice of using dataflows, with this we have already noticed that errors in the Power BI Service platform really happen.
They are inexplicable errors that happen in a few days, and that after a few minutes or hours, they work again without any kind of maintenance on our part.
This has already been said on others posts and we noticed that it must be some instability of the platform itself...

Today we have some processes that fail to refresh on a random day and work during the rest of the days until the next instability!!!
It's really unfortunate, because dataflows is a great form of governance and data organization!!!

[v-yangliu-msft]

Hi  @philosopher  ,

Can you try to remove the broken reports from the Online service and re-add them.

This is a link to related content, hope it will help you:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Dataflow-Refresh-Internal-Error/idi-p/1835705/page/2#comment...

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Dataflow-Failed-Internal-Error/m-p/844830

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Dataflows-always-fail-to-refresh-due-to-quot-internal-error...

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/dataflow-refresh-failed-due-to-internal-error/m-p/637622

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Refresh-Failed-Internal-Service-Error/td-p/381780

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[jeffshieldsdev]

Support is free for Pro users. Submit a ticket and they'll be able to look up the Request and Activity IDs and see what internal error is occurring and help you resolve.

[arvindsingh802]

Sorry @philosopher,  its hard to help with limited information in error message, I would suggest to rasie support ticket with Microsoft Support | Microsoft Power BI

[philosopher]

@arvindsingh802 
Thanks
Will these do (a couple of the latest, today)?

We encountered an error while performing the refresh. Please try again. If the issue persists contact Support. Request ID: 33bfd6f7-fa5b-444f-b470-70f7eae3a1cc Activity ID: aefa0347-7a1f-41d8-a30a-f715750d3601
We encountered an error while performing the refresh. Please try again. If the issue persists contact Support. Request ID: 3a4955f1-614e-4ae0-8b04-256af8282a0d Activity ID: b6ebf3a4-82bb-422a-89dc-f80dd7bc37f1

[arvindsingh802]

@philosopher - Can you share full error meassge to help you better

[Marriet]

That´s all the information you get when a dataflow fails.

We´re having the same problem, it´s maddening! And it´s causing a lot of noise with our stakeholders.