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Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

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Kate on 11 Jun 2019 22:35:27

It would be helpful to be able to set up a distribution list of those to send refresh failure notifications to. Currently, only the owner receives an email, but we have several administrators that require notification when certain reports fail.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:51

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

this was implemented but does not work with distribution lists. It will only email additional individual users, still will not email a distro for some reason.

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a021f897 4926-4a5e-828a-93bddc4aa894 on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:37

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

There are times when the refresh of a dataset returns a change to the data that breaks a visual on a published report page. Example: an unaccounted for divide by zero error could cause an error in the data or a non-numeric value shows up in the data that expects only numeric values.

A notification should be sent when a visual is broken in published reports after a scheduled refresh. The email should be sent to the administrators of the report so that they can look into the issue before users report the issue to them.

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1fac0baf 9610-4152-8bad-924d339565a1 on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:53

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

Might be implemented but is bare bones and is flaky as giving one little confidence in it. Always needing periodically to manually check if the auto refreshes are actually working.
And then update the emails again.

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4409bfdd b8cb-4bcb-809b-3e265e87d0b9 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:11

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

This Power BI Idea has been implemented and works great. Doesn't anyone know how to mark this idea as implemented and complete?

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a3998d99 1562-47db-8aa2-3888bc34ce78 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:10

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

Item is available

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a8862138 1560-4efb-becf-a22a958f1136 on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:52

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

It would be helpful to have email notifications if a one-drive refresh has failed for a data set just like with scheduled refreshes from the data warehouse

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8dc4468f 07b5-42f9-88d5-0e6cbf9474c6 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:47

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

Allow email notification at failed refresh also to external users as some users are assisted from external users of other tenants or has to notify that reports are not update for some reason.

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af6134f2 aa66-43a7-b859-8b1f4aa09f88 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:31

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

Message a particular Microsoft Teams channel when refresh fails.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:55:59

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

This should indeed be marked as implemented

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93f2332b 0817-4d55-93c9-6e1b678e9e67 on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:39

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

This has already been implemented. On Power BI online go to to the settings section in any dataset you have. On the Scheduled Refresh section, go to the bottom part and there you can find the "email these users when the refresh fails" section, you just need to enter the emails of the persons you want to be notified of the failure.

I hope this helps.
Regards.