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Fabric Activator is subject to the following general and specific limitations. Before you began your work with Activator, review and consider these limitations. Activator is subject to the following general and specific limitations.
General limitations
- Creating alerts for a report using Dynamic M parameters isn't supported.
- Creating alerts from the Fabric or Power BI Capacity Metrics app isn't supported.
Activator item migration from Preview to GA
Activator became Generally Available (GA) in November 2024. As part of the GA transition, all Activator items and rules created during the preview were phased out:
- In January 2025, preview items converted to read-only mode.
- In March 2025, all remaining preview Activator items were deleted.
If you had preview items, you needed to recreate your rules in a new Activator item. For more information about creating rules, see Create Activator rules.
Supported Power BI visuals
Activator supports the following Power BI visual types:
- Stacked column
- Clustered column
- Stacked bar
- Stacked 100% column
- Stacked 100% bar
- Clustered bar
- Ribbon chart
- Line
- Area
- Stacked area
- Line and stacked column
- Line and clustered column
- Pie
- Donut
- Gauge
- Card
- KPI
Activator also supports the following map visuals. Activator only supports map visuals that use the Location field to specify the location of objects on the map. Activator doesn't support visuals that use Latitude and Longitude fields.
- Bing Map
- Filled Map
- Azure Map
- ArcGIS map
Supported real-time dashboard tiles
Activator supports the following tile types in Real-Time Dashboards:
- Time chart
- Bar chart
- Column chart
- Area chart
- Line chart
- Stat
- Multi stat
- Pie Chart
Additionally, for Activator to support a tile:
- The data in the tile must not be static.
- The data in the tile must be based on a KQL query.
- The tile must have at most one time range.
- The tile must be filtered by a predefined time range. Using a custom time range isn't supported.
- The tile must not contain time series data (for example, data created using the make-series KQL operator).
For more information, see Limitations on charts with a time axis.
Allowed recipients of email notifications
Each recipient of an email notification must have an internal email address. The recipient must belong to the same domain as the creator or other verified domains on creator's Microsoft Entra tenant. Activator doesn't allow email notifications to be sent to either external email addresses or guest email addresses.
To check if the recipient's domain is one of the verified domains, visit Azure portal and search for Microsoft Entra ID. Once you arrive in Microsoft Entra ID, select Custom domain names in the left panel and check if the recipient's domain is listed there.
Allowed chats and channels for Teams notifications
For Teams group chats, you can select only recently active chats. If the chat you want doesn't appear in Activator, send a message to the chat to make it recently active. For Teams channels, you see and can select only shared channels. You can't send messages to private channels.
Maximum number of events per second
Activator can process up to 10,000 incoming events per second per rule. If the number of input events to your rule exceeds this limit, Activator stops your rule.
Maximum number of actions
Activator enforces the following limits on the number of actions that can occur in a given time period. If an action exceeds the limit, Activator might throttle or cancel the action.
| Rule action | Scope | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Messages/activator item/hour | 500 | |
| Messages/rule/recipient/hour | 30 | |
| Teams | Messages/activator item/hour | 500 |
| Teams | Messages/rule/recipient/hour | 30 |
| Teams | Messages/recipient/hour | 100 |
| Teams | Messages/Teams tenant/second | 50 |
| Custom action | Power Automate flow executions/rule/hour | 10,000 |
| Fabric item | Activations/user/minute | 50 |
Lifecycle management limitations
Activator items don't currently work with Microsoft Fabric’s lifecycle management tools if they use any of these scenarios:
Azure Blob Storage Events as data source
Power BI as data source
Fabric User Data Functions as action (preview)
If you include an Activator item with one of these sources or actions in a deployment pipeline or a Git-integrated workspace, you see an error when you try to deploy or commit the Activator item.
Support for these data sources and actions is planned for a future release.