Pause and start Power BI Embedded programmatically

[itm-platform]

This page explains how to pause and start the service manually. Can this be done programmatically?
Use case: Power BI is embedded in a page of an application that has a rather low usage.
Objective: pay per use of Power BI Embedded, not just its availability
Question: Can the PBI Embedded service be activated when that page is accessed and paused when left?

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• ID: 842bcbb2-ce2c-3729-f876-5d306595b33c
• Version Independent ID: 1a915436-b70f-a6e9-a3c1-f7fc8db4cdb2
• Content: Pause and start your Power BI Embedded capacity in the Azure portal - Power BI
• Content Source: powerbi-docs/developer/embedded/azure-pbie-pause-start.md
• Service: power-bi-embedded
• GitHub Login: @KesemSharabi
• Microsoft Alias: kesharab

[davidiseminger]

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[KesemSharabi]

Hi @itm-platform,

Yes, you can use the Azure ARM APIs suspend and resume.

Or, you can use a Power BI Embedded PowerShell script; Suspend-AzPowerBIEmbeddedCapacity and Resume-AzPowerBIEmbeddedCapacity.

Hope this helps,

Kesem