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prabhuss
Helper I
Helper I

power bi embed Memory usage

We have A1 Capcity for Power BI Embed and typically we pause it night. For last few days we have started monitroing average memory, to our surprise, when A1 capcity is Paused, we still see memory usage around around 1 GB, can somebody, please help me understand the reason.

 

 

 

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v-cherch-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @prabhuss 

 

Please have a look at below articles to check if they could help you.

https://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2017/09/understanding-the-power-bi-capacity-based-skus/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded-faq#licensing

 

Regards,

Cherie

Community Support Team _ Cherie Chen
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Sorry, but this does not answer my question. To me it looks like memory calculation shown under metrics does not reflect correct value. Another thing which, I discovered if I pause and start again, memory usages comes down significantly with same rendering load.

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