Semantic model load limit 5 hours Power BI

Please see this bootstrapping, on booting loading models.

You publish. Manually activate the refresh policy. Then manually refresh each partition, to avoid the full refresh on first deployment

Hi cristianj23a,
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.

Scheduled refreshes for imported semantic models time out after two hours. This time-out is increased to five hours for semantic models in Premium workspaces. If you encounter this limit, consider reducing the size or complexity of your semantic model, or consider refactoring the large semantic model into multiple smaller semantic models.

Another method you can try With Premium capacities is refresh operations performed through the XMLA endpoint which have no time limit. To learn more, see Advanced incremental refresh and real-time data with the XMLA endpoint in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
As you have mentioned it is not possible to decrease the data load, Please refer the above document and try to implement refresh through XMLA endpoint with which you can bypass time limit.


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