Google Analytics issue: Request failed (403): Quota exceeded

Hi all,

I just wanted to follow up on this issue. I raised a support ticked with Microsoft, and after a thorough search of posible errors, the conclusion was as follows:

All API calls form Power BI Service to Google Analytics are processed under a shared project id handled by Microsoft. The product team is aware of the limitations this is causing to the clients, but they currently can't provide a garantied work around. Their current recommendation is: "try rescheduling the refresh to another time of day if possible".

I hope Microsoft will be able to sort it out with Google soon. I'm still hitting this error frequently each week. For now I'll will go with some extra backup refreshes on differnt times during the day, and hope at least one of them succeds.

Please find the repsonse from the Power BI Product Group Team below:

I have discussed with our PG Team regarding error that you have received " GoogleAnalytics: Request failed (403): Quota exceeded for quota group 'default' and limit 'Queries per 100 seconds' of service 'analytics.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:664933364861' and below are the comments sent on that error by our PG Team.

"Microsoft use two different client ids, one for PowerBI.com (664933364861) and one for PBI Desktop. All customers under PowerBI.com run under the same id. The client Id in the error mentioned is for PowerBI.com, and as you can see the quotas are already set quite high. In fact there's no way for us to increase them further. We've been in contact with Google in the past about getting a special exemption to the quotas, but there was some blocker, I believe it was due to technical issues. As of right now we can provide no guaranteed work around. I'd recommend try rescheduling the refresh to another time of day if possible".

Best,

Torben