Resource / capacity

Power BI resource / capacity refresh errors

Resource and capacity errors happen when a refresh exceeds the memory or concurrency limits of its Power BI capacity, such as out-of-memory, resource governance, or throttling.

The 6 catalogued errors in this category, each with its plain-English cause and fix:

• 0xC13E0003Resource governance canceled the refresh at the per-model memory limit.
• Memory limit exceededA query exceeded the per-query memory allowance.
• There wasn't enough memory to complete the operationThe resource-governing command memory limit was exceeded (memory consumed vs. limit vs. database size).
• Exceeded the capacity limit for semantic model refreshesToo many semantic models are refreshing concurrently on the capacity.
• Capacity level limit exceededThe capacity-wide concurrent-refresh ceiling was hit.
• Node level limit exceededA physical Premium node limit was exceeded.

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