QuickSight Dashboard Refresh Rate(limit of 32 times)

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Hi All,
I have a quickSight dashboard that needs refreshing every 15 mins throughout the day. I understand that there is a limit of refreshing of 32 times a day. I have below questions on the same.

  • Is this true?
  • If yes, is the refresh limit on the dataset or the dashboard itself?
  • If it is on the dataset, can I have 3 different datasets(from different s3 folders) feeding into a single dashboard, have the first dataset refresh every 15 minutes for the first 8 hours, and the remaining 2 for next 8 hours each? Will that help me achieve my goal with the QS dashboard reflect the change every time any of the datasets change?

For context I can easily split the datasets on the basis of 3 regions.

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Hello @anjalisb

Welcome to the Quicksight community! Thank you for posting your question!

An on-demand, full refresh can be initiated 32 times within a 24-hour period per dataset. (The 32-refresh limit applies to each individual dataset, not the dashboard. The dashboard itself does not have a refresh limit; it reflects updates based on the latest data available in its datasets.)

This on-demand refresh process involves initiating a data ingestion either through the QuickSight UI or using the QuickSight API call CreateIngestion.

You can manually refresh datasets in an Enterprise edition account 32 times in a 24-hour period and in a Standard edition account 8 times in a 24-hour period.

  • There is no limit when you do schedule refresh on the datasets. There is only limit when you refresh it manually as said above.
  • You can have different datasets in one single dashboard and have a refresh schedule for every dataset.
  • The minimum Full refresh schedule you can do on a dataset is hourly (you cannot schedule Full refresh for every 15 min).
  • If your datasets are configured to support incremental refresh (for example, they include a timestamp field and follow a proper incremental ingestion pattern), you can schedule incremental refreshes every 15 minutes without hitting the 32-ingestion limit. However, if your datasets only support full refreshes, the minimum scheduling interval is hourly.

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Please let me know if that helps!

Thank you,
Shravya

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