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Announcing the retirement of real-time streaming in Power BI

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15 October, 2024

Today, we are announcing that we will be retiring real-time streaming in Power BI. This impacts organizations and users who use these capabilities today to stream data and update dashboards in real time. This blog outlines the changes, the timelines for deprecations and recommended alternatives.

We have heard your feedback and will be enabling creation of streaming models; however, this will be deprecated on October 31st, 2027 so we do recommend you explore real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric solutions for your real time streaming needs. 

What is changing for real-time streaming in Power BI?

Date What happens
Beginning October 31st, 2024
  • Sunsetting period of real-time streaming will begin
  • Users will still be able to create real-time semantic models and leverage their existing real-time semantic models
Beginning October 31st, 2027
  • Creation of new real time semantic models will no longer be supported
  • Includes Push semantic model, Streaming semantic model, PubNub streaming semantic model, Streaming data tile
  • Existing real-time semantic models will be retired and no longer supported
  • We are working with existing customers on migration, this date is subject to change

What should you use instead for new real-time streaming scenarios?

We recommend users explore real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric which will provide you a greater, more comprehensive experience to support both your business scenarios and engineering processes. For migration recommendations, please see aka.ms/RTIblog, which will be continually updated.

What happens to my existing real-time semantic models in Power BI?

Existing real-time semantic models in Power BI will not be retired until October 2027. For existing customers, we recommend migrating to real time intelligence solutions with Microsoft Fabric – we will provide additional guidance in an upcoming post.

Next steps

Please refer to the Power BI blog, Power BI real-time streaming documentation, and migration recommendations at aka.ms/RTIblog. These resources will be updated as we move through the retirement process.

If you need more migration guidance from Microsoft, such as architecture review, clarification about specific Real-Time Intelligence capabilities, please fill out your request here.