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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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Implemented

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Nathaniel Winkler on 24 Feb 2021 15:44:44

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

This is also needed on Dataflows. Right now the only option is the dataflow owner, however, if that person is on vacation or sick then no other team members receive the notification.

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Power BI Ideas Admin 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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Jason Himmelstein 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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Gary Thomann 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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paula.bachtold@libertymutual.com 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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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:10

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

Item is available

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Power BI User 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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A Go 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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Aaron Allbrooks 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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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:55:59

RE: Send Refresh Failure Notifications to Distribution List

This should indeed be marked as implemented