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Power Bi shared capacity refresh limit
- 4 years ago
Hi mwolf007
The limit of 8 scheduled refreshes on a Pro licence is per Dataset. So, for example, you could have 5 Datasets in a Workspace, each being automatically refreshed up to 8 times per day, a total of 40 refreshes per day for the data in that Workspace.
Remember that the limit of 8 refreshes per dataset is only applied to scheduled refreshes. You can run as many manual refreshes , done by clicking "refresh now" on the dataset as you want, they do not count towards the 8. Also refreshes triggered through Power Automate "Flow" do count towards the 8 per day.
Effectively, if you have to click or do a manual procedure to refresh, it is not counted towards the limit of 8. The limit of 8 automated refreshes applies on a Per Dataset basis.
See: Data refresh in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Hope this helps
Stuart
This is false. Refreshes done in Power Automate are made via API call, which count towards the number of allotted refreshes per day.