How to refresh online data in power Bi online?

[pcarvalho]

Hello everyone,

I've seen that Power BI online offers a possibility to schedule the refreshing time weekly and daily, but just 8 times a day. Is there a way to configure and update the data more often? Like in every 10 minutes, for example.

[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi there

When using Power BI Pro you get 8 scheduled refreshes a day.

If you move to Power BI Premium you can schedule 48 refreshes a day or alternatively you could refresh it more often via PowerShell or an API

[pcarvalho]

Thank you for the hints. I've tried to refresh it via API using Microsoft Flow. By first, it worked great, but then I got a message that I exceeded the limit of requests per day (the PBI API limit I guess, because a keep receiving messages in my email, which I set to do pararel to refreshing PBI). Do you know how many requests a I can do per day or do you think a Pro accounnt cloud solve this problem? I'm using a free account. 

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@GilbertQ wrote:
Hi there

When using Power BI Pro you get 8 scheduled refreshes a day.

If you move to Power BI Premium you can schedule 48 refreshes a day or alternatively you could refresh it more often via PowerShell or an API

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[GilbertQ]

Hi there

Using Power BI Free or Pro is still limited to 8 refreshes per day.

[pcarvalho]

Oh, I got it. I thought it was a limit only for the Refresh Schedules on PBI service and that via API I could refresh it more often to keep the data in real time. Anyway, thank you for the help.

[GilbertQ]

Happy to help!