Scheduled Refresh Automatically Disables

[danielhough]

Hello Community, I have issues with my scheduled refreshes disappearing? If there is an error while attempting to refresh, I need to go back in and turn it back on and sometimes, it simply vanishes for no reason?

Is there anyway to set this to never turn off even when erroring? I have several workspaces to manage and its a bit of a pain to check and monitor this. 

Thanks!!

[Burningsuit · Accepted solution]

Hi @danielhough 

In my experience Refreshing never "simply vanishes for no reason".  Power BI will deactivate your refresh schedule after four consecutive failures or when the service detects an unrecoverable error that requires a configuration update, such as invalid or expired credentials. It is not possible to change the consecutive failures threshold.

Refreshes are also paused if no-one access any Reports or Dashboards based on the dataset in two months, again there's no way to change this inactivity timeout.

Take a look at the Refresh history of the datasets and see if there's an error or more information there. You can also set it up to email you if Refresh fails, which might help with managing the Datasets.

See: Data refresh in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

hope this helps.

Stuart 

[danielhough]

Thank you!