Power BI Embedded Service In Azure with A1 or A2 Node Maximum Concurrent Users

[tls-tje]

Dears,

We have around 100-200 users, and we tried using the A1 Power BI Service Embedded license in Azure.

Please, can anyone tell me how many concurrent users approximately can access 1 Power BI dashboard report if we have an A1 or A2 Node?

Thank You.

[tls-tje]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

We will try and then check the monitoring features mentioned by @v-pnaroju-msft 

[v-pnaroju-msft]

Hi tls-tje,

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[v-pnaroju-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi tls-tje,

To effectively monitor the resource usage of the Power BI Embedded service, the following options can be utilized.

1.Azure Monitor enables tracking of the performance and health of Power BI Embedded resources. It allows the configuration of alerts and provides insights into CPU utilization, memory usage, and query performance.

2.The Monitoring Data Reference for Power BI Embedded provides detailed insights into monitoring specific metrics, including CPU utilization, memory usage, and query durations.
Monitoring data reference for Power BI Embedded - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

3.The Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App facilitates efficient monitoring of capacity usage by providing a user-friendly interface for tracking resource consumption and performance metrics.

Additionally, kindly refer to the following links for further information:

Monitor Power BI Embedded - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Azure Monitor overview - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Learn

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[v-pnaroju-msft]

Thank you @Tutu_in_YYC  for the response.

Hi tls-tje,

We would like to inquire if the solution offered by @Tutu_in_YYC has resolved your issue. If you have discovered an alternative approach, we encourage you to share it with the community to assist others facing similar challenges.

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[Tutu_in_YYC]

Its gonna be hard to estimate no of concurrent users, as the capacity usage is also based on your how good the semantic model is, the query that it needs to run, whether your dax calculation is complex, how big is the data model, what mode are you running etc...

One thing you can try to use as a rough ballpark benchmark, is if you have the same report/model in a shared capacity which is 1GB of memory, putting it in A1 roughly means you will have max 3x the capacity (ie 3GB) and A2 max 5x the capacity (ie 5GB).

Also note that you need configure the query memory limit, to get the max...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-admin-premium-workloads#query-memory-l...

[tls-tje]

Hi @Tutu_in_YYC ,

Is there any kind of analytics of the running nodes in Azure to see the resources usage?

Thanks

[Tutu_in_YYC]

see response from @v-pnaroju-msft