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Anonymous
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Gateway error on Power BI Service

Hello:

 

As shown below, i am getting error wheni tried to enable gateway.

Extension{"extensionDataSourceKind":"MetricsDataConnector","extensionDataSourcePath":"MetricsDataConnector"}Cannot be added to gateway

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

JD

 
 
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Anonymous
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The issue was with MS power bi metric report. I uninstalled & installed again and it ran fine. Thanks for your reply.

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v-eqin-msft
Community Support
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I could not reproduce the issue since I did not know your data source. Please provide more details.

 

There are several links posted on how to work around this problem.Please check if these could help you solve the problem.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/dataflows-Extension-quot-extensionDataSourceKind-quot-quot/m-p/623019#M62137

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Gateway-Error-Cannot-be-added-to-gateway/td-p/571273

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Gateway-extenionDataSourceKind-Power-BI-error/m-p/615767

 

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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Anonymous
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The issue was with MS power bi metric report. I uninstalled & installed again and it ran fine. Thanks for your reply.

lbendlin
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Looks like this is a custom connector. It (.mez or .pqx)  needs to be placed into the Documents\Power BI Desktop\Custom Connectors folder of the account that is running the gateway - on each of the gateway cluster members.

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