Issues with connecting Google Analytics to Power BI - powerbi

I have been using Power BI to connect to Google Analytics now for several months,however in the last month all of my reports are failing with the following error:
"GoogleAnalytics: Request failed (403): Quota exceeded for quota group 'default' and limit 'Queries per 100 seconds' of service 'analytics.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:664933364861'. Table: xxxxxxxxxxxx"
This has never been an issue before, and no new reports have been created, so I'm puzzled as to why it is happening.
I went onto the Google Developer Console, and under the Analytics Reporting API, I can't see any data at all so I can't actually see how far over the quota I am going (if that is indeed the issue)
I have amended the quotas to the highest values allowed, and still get the same error when refreshing.
Does anyone have any advice that may be able to point me in the right direction please?

This has been happening to me for a while. Goes away for a bit and then comes back. It's happening to quite a few people.
See https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Google-Analytics-API-Error/idi-p/893610

Power bi's connector for google analytics has its issues, such as sampling and API Calls limit.
You might be better off, connecting Google Analytics with Google BigQuery and then to Power bi.

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Trying to understand problem automatically refreshing Power BI data

I'm an experienced developer who knows very little about Power BI. So we've hired some consultants to implement our Power BI screens. And I provided them with a read-only login to my SQL Server database.
It works okay, but when we complained that the data never updates, they are now telling us we should set up a VM to "assure that at the refreshing moment, the scheduled job is not going to fail. VM is always connected, so even during holidays, weekends, the data will be always refreshing."
They followed up with "If the database is on-premise, we need a gateway to connect power bi to the database. If the machine, where the gateway is installed is off, power bi can not connect to the database. So, we need a VM to assure that the gateway is always on."
But this makes zero sense to me. Our database is not on-premise if it's on the Internet and we've given them a connection string. They should be able to update the data at any time.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm starting to question these guys' knowledge. Is it this complicated for Power BI to automatically update its data?
Some data sources require a Data Gateway, even if you put them on the open internet. Data sources that are typically deployed on private networks, or data sources that require 3rd party drivers require the Power BI On-Prem Gateway for refresh. See the list here.

Cannot Extend GPU Quota on Google Cloud

I am using Google Cloud for development and training of deep neural networks. I've reached the limits of what I can do with CPUs and now need to create and instance with one or more GPUs.
I've followed the instructions from multiple sources. As the instance was being created I received a notification that my quota for my region (us-west1) was zero and to request an increase.
I did so and received the confirmation email within minutes. However, when I then attempted to recreate the instance I was again met with the quota increase error.
I submitted another request (same region) but heard nothing.
I tried in a different region, again requesting a quota increase, but heard nothing. I did this 6 times and -- as you might have guessed -- neither received a confirmation email nor was I able to create my instance.
I tried the hack of using Chrome in Incognito mode, but no joy.
This was an issue a few months ago, at least judging from the S/O and Google forum posts. I would think that by now it would be fixed.
Any help would be much appreciated as I'm totally stuck
NB: Cross-posted to the gce-discussion forum
I think you should contact the Google Cloud Platform Support for this kind of issues.
Open a case asking why your quota increase has not been applied and I am sure they are going to solve this in some days or at least to tell you why your request was declined.
Notice that quoting from the official Documentation "Free Trial accounts do not receive GPU quota by default."
Disclaimer: I work for the Google Cloud Support.

How to understand errors(combined) at Google Spanner Monitor?

Google Spanner monitor provides helpful information about databases and instance. Operation per seconds view contains errors(combined) measure that is not clear for me.
How to understand errors(combined)?
You can make a dashboard in Stackdriver (https://app.google.stackdriver.com) that will break down the errors slightly. We're working on a resources page for Cloud Spanner right now that will actually break them down by error code, but before that, you can go to Resources > Metrics Explorer and filter by response status:
You'll occasionally get error responses using the Cloud Spanner API; FAILED_PRECONDITION is somewhat common if you have a lot of transactions happening simultaneously that invalidate other transactions.

Is anybody else experiencing discrepancies between actual calls/renders and what azure wants to bill?

Since about a month we integrated a test report as a dashboard into a web application (power bi embedded). This dashboard is only accessible from within that application if you are logged on. We have around 20 tiles on the report and as far as i understood that, this means 20 renders. Since this is just a test and is mainly used to discuss with clients how the real reports will look in the future we had around 60 calls of that report in the last 30 days => so roughly 1200 renders. so since 1000 are free and we havent actually rendered over 2k it should still be more or less free - or maybe the $2,50 for 1000 renders.
but now our free trial azure account has been deactivated, because power bi ate up the free €170 start budget and it would total to bill around €600 according to the warning in azure... In my count that means azure counted 300000 renders. That seems totally wrong to me.
Do i completely misunderstand the pricing model? Anybody else have a problem like that?
Yes, I also had this problem, I was basically getting charged the per render instead of every thousand renders.
As specializt mentions, these kinds of questions aren't meant for stackoverflow.
To get the issue resolved, log a support ticket with Microsoft Billing from the Azure portal by selecting the question mark icon, and select New Support Request. Then explain your problem in detail and they should correct the problem and credit your account.

PubSub service having issue?

It seems like api's are timing out when creating subscription for already existing topics. My tests which validate this was working until few minutes back but now they started failing. I am not even able to create subscription using Google's console either.
Though Google's dashboard shows service as working. Anyone else seeing this? I am not sure what else I can do to gather more info.
Yes, we had an issue with error rates higher than expected around that time. The users should have seen 504 errors during the outage. As of 1:30PM, the issue has been resolved, and everything should be back to normal. Sorry about the inconveniences.
We do have SLA. Cloud Pub/Sub SLA is described here:
https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/sla
If you think you're eligible, you can request a refund from that page.
Sorry again for the inconveniences you may have had.