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6 years ago

Setting Alerts in PowerBI Services

Hello, I am setting up some alerts on some of my cards in PowerBI Services.  I noticed that I must set it as "at most once per hour" or "at most once per day".  Is it possible to make it "at most once per x minutes?".

 

Also, I noticed in the documentation that the alerts do not work with streaming data sets created on services.  But it says it does work if I connect to a SQL database server via PowerBI desktop using DirectQuery, and then pin that card to a dashboard on PowerBI services.  Does anyone have any experiences on this part working?

 

Thanks!!!

 

 

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
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    6 years ago
    To the best of my knowledge no on the first question.

    I do not have much experience with the alerts on DirectQuery but everything you state is my understanding.
  • v-yingjl's avatar
    v-yingjl
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    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

    1. It it not available to set alerts at minutes in power bi service currently. Only "at most once per hour" and "at most once per day" are supported in alerts.
    2. About 'it does work if I connect to a SQL database server via PowerBI desktop using DirectQuery, and then pin that card to a dashboard on PowerBI services. ' , I have not seen that in microsoft offical documents, but I think there is no relationship between direct query and alerts because alerts can only be set on tiles pinned from report visuals, and only on gauges, KPIs, and cards. Regardless of which data source and connect mode I use, the alerts will be set as long as I use cards, KPIs, gauges and pin them to dashboard.

    Please refer these microsoft documents about alerts in power bi service:

    1. Data alerts in the Power BI service 
    2. Tutorial: Set alerts on Power BI dashboards 

     

    Best Regards,
    Yingjie Li

    If this post helps then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • v-yingjl's avatar
    v-yingjl
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    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    If you've fixed the issue on your own please kindly share your solution. If the above posts help, please kindly mark it as a solution to help others find it more quickly. Thanks!


    Best Regards,
    Yingjie Li