How can I add live data to a PowerBI dashboard when I'm not using Azure Stream Analytics to passthrough messages? The refresh rates by default do not seem to support this.
Stream Analytics output to Power BI is just a layer on top of this Add Rows Power BI REST API plus a few related APIs like creating a dataset. You could do that yourself in your own code without Stream Analytics as shown in these samples. This still achieves the real-time animating tiles in Power BI.
The alternative for Stream Analytics would be to use the PowerBI API's to add row to a dataset.
Take a look at this sample to get started
Note: In the Free tier you can update 10k rows per hour.
Only when you use Azure stream analytics, your Power BI dashboard is auto-refresh
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I am working on a power bi report which is embedded in a portal. I need to display live GPS live locations of vehicles in a MAP based on a company that user has access to in the portal. basically every user will have a company associated to them and I'll use rowlevelsecurity for doing this.
A third party application will give access to live streaming data through a API. Is it possible to connect to a third party application API from power bi and show gps locations? If it is possible, how can I do it? I am totally new to this. please help me with any documents/scripts. We have power bi pro license.
For your use case you will not be able to do it all in Power BI, you'll need to push the streaming data to some sort of database, Azure SQL Server/Azure Cosmos DB/Azure Databricks using Event Hubs and maybe Streaming Analytics as well. So for example your stream sends the data to the event hub endpoint, then sends it to a database, then Power BI reads it.
You can then link a Power BI report to that database and set it up in Direct Query mode, and then set the page refresh on the report. Depending on the type of service your period of refresh for none Embedded/Premium workspaces will be 30mins or more, and not 'realtime'
Why Power BI service does not refresh data automatically. The forums mention that with Power BI Pro license allows to schedule refresh 8 times and Power BI Premium allows us to schedule refresh with a higher frequency. There is always an option to manually refresh the dataset/dashboard.
Does that mean Power BI does not provide the ability for live reporting.
We are not sure when was the last update for the dashboard.
Please suggest if we have some workaround. Iam using web api as data source.
Real-time reports are possible with push or streaming datasets.
DirectQuery is another possibility for frequently changing data.
What's your connection ? DirectQuery or import in your current report ?
Schedule refresh for your dashboard does not mean your data will refresh, you have to refresh your dataset also, and depending your source if you are using dataflows it will refresh your last dataset update. I'll suggest you to check out guy in the cube channel on youtube.
We were implementing the Azure Time Series insights(TSI) for the data streaming through IoT hub and wanting to connect to Power BI for advanced visualization. There is a provision to build a custom query to connect to Power BI from Azure TSI but i guess there is a limitation of fetching a dataset for specific time frame and only for the time series ID selected for the view.
Is there a way we can get the latest data in Power BI as and when the data refreshes in Azure TSI and for additional number of time series ID which were not selected while building the query.
Cheers,
Amit
If you generate a query from TSI to feed into Power BI, you can manually edit it to include the TSIDs you want to see. If you set the "isSearchSpanRelative" parameter to true, the data should refresh in Power BI as it comes into TSI.
I am new to the powerbi platform and have a challenge of scoping/converting an old dashboard solution to powerbi.
The old dashboard solution is custom made and refreshes data every minute.
Powerbi lists its refresh rate for 8 times a day for Pro and 48times a day on Enterprice. Does that means there is no option to provide the same realtime (1min) updates in a dashboard using powerbi?
Can you embed iframes or anything in a powerbi dashboard?
How can you do a realtime graph in powerbi if it only refreshes 8 times a day?
Refreshing data 8/48 times a day is applicable when you import data in Power BI dataset. But if you want "more recent" data, you can connect to your data source using DirectQuery mode. DirectQuery sends queries to your data source when rendering the report. If you apply a filter, the database will get a new query, and so on. Not every data source supports DirectQuery, e.g. you can't use it for flat files (obviously). You may want to take a look at Data refresh in Power BI article.
For embedding iframes in Power BI report you can use HTML Viewer custom visual.
By default when using DirectQuery mode, tiles pinned to a dashboard refresh automatically hourly (Datasets in DirectQuery/LiveConnect mode), but you can reduce this time down to 15 minutes:
A tile is a report visual pinned to a dashboard, and dashboard tile refreshes happen about every hour so that the tiles show recent results. You can change the schedule in the dataset settings, as in the screenshot below, or force a dashboard update manually by using the Refresh Now option.
However if you want to display real-time data in Power BI dashboard, it will be better to use push or streaming datasets. With push datasets you can programatically push data to the dataset and the data will be stored and you can use them in reports. Streaming datasets are similar to push, but they will keep only the last hour of data pushed to them and can't be used in report, only pinned to a dashboard. There are also other options, like using PubNub or Microsoft Flow. For more information also take a look at Real-time streaming in Power BI.
How can you do writeback in Power BI?
Does Power BI also support writeback like Microstrategy?
I couldn't find any solution from PowerBI. I saw a workaround using PowerApps, where they created a PowerApp and embedded that in PowerBI and used Flow to automate the task to write back into databases, but it is not so feasible.
Are there any other working solutions?
There isn't any official way to write-back.
You can do the same approach as PowerApp visuals do. In your custom visual, you can trigger an action to writes back to your SQL DB or whatever other source you have, e.g. Push Data Rows or refresh.
You can also trigger a 'Refresh Now' call via Power BI REST APIs to update your dataset from the DB.
If you're in embed mode, there is also a JS SDK call to refresh() the view such that the visuals will now display the new data.
See what PowerOn does in a similar manner.