Pause and start your Power BI Embedded capacity in the Azure portal

This article walks through how to pause and start a Power BI Embedded capacity in Microsoft Azure. This assumes you have created a Power BI Embedded capacity. If you have not, see Create Power BI Embedded capacity in the Azure portal to get started.

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Pause your capacity

Pausing your capacity prevents you from being billed. Pausing your capacity is great if you don't need to use the capacity for a period of time. Use the following steps to pause your capacity.

Note

Pausing a capacity may prevent content from being available within Power BI. Make sure to unassign workspaces from your capacity before pausing to prevent interruption.

  1. Sign into the Azure portal.

  2. Under Azure services, select Power BI Embedded to see your capacities.

    Screenshot of Azure services in Azure portal.

  3. Select the capacity you want to pause.

    Screenshot of Power BI Embedded capacity list.

  4. Select Pause above the capacity details.

    Screenshot of pausing a capacity.

  5. Select Yes to confirm you want to pause the capacity.

    Screenshot of confirming capacity pause.

Start your capacity

Resume usage by starting your capacity. Starting your capacity also resumes billing.

  1. Sign into the Azure portal.

  2. Select All services > Power BI Embedded to see your capacities.

    Screenshot of all services within Azure portal.

  3. Select the capacity you want to start.

    Screenshot of Power BI Embedded capacity list in Azure portal.

  4. Select Start above the capacity details.

    Screenshot of starting a capacity.

  5. Select Yes to confirm you want to start the capacity.

    Screenshot of confirming start.

If any content is assigned to this capacity, it becomes available once started.

Use CLI to start or pause your capacity

You can also start or pause your capacity from the command line using:

Next steps

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