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This article walks through how to scale a Power BI Embedded capacity in Microsoft Azure. Scaling allows you to increase or decrease the size of your capacity.
This assumes you created a Power BI Embedded capacity (A SKU). If you haven't, see Create Power BI Embedded capacity in the Azure portal to get started.
Note
This article describes the process for vertically scaling A SKUs. It doesn't talk about horizontal scaling or P SKUs.
Sign into the Azure portal.
Under Azure services, select Power BI Embedded to see your capacities.
Select the capacity you want to scale. Notice that the current scale for each capacity is listed under SKU.
When you make your selection, information about that capacity is displayed next to it. This information again includes the current scaling under SKU.
Under Scale, select Change size.
Select a scale and click Resize.
Confirm your tier by viewing the overview tab. The current pricing tier is listed.
Use one of the autoscaling techniques described here to elastically resize your capacity and address its memory and CPU needs.
Power BI Embedded Azure Resource Manager REST APIs, for example Capacities - Update. See this runbook PowerShell script capacity scale-up sample on how to use this API call can create your own versions of upscale and down-scale scripts.
Use Azure alerts to track Power BI capacity metrics such as:
When these metrics reach the value specified in the Azure Monitor Alert rules, the rule will trigger an upscale or downscale runbook script.
For example, you can create a rule that if Overload = 1 or if CPU = 95%, then the upscale capacity runbook script will be invoked to update the capacity to a higher SKU.
You can also create a rule that if the CPU drops below 50%, a down-scale runbook script will be invoked to update the capacity to a lower CPU.
Use the Power BI Embedded sample script as a reference for scaling a capacity.
Scaling capacities may involve a small amount of downtime.
More questions? Try asking the Power BI Community
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