About the Power BI Service collector
Use this collector to harvest metadata from Power BI. Users can then:
Discover Power BI reports and dashboards across your enterprise’s Power BI workspaces.
Perform impact analysis to understand how changes to upstream data sources impact Power BI reports.
Important things to note:
This collector only harvests from the Power BI Service. It does not harvest Power BI desktop (pbix) files unless these files are uploaded to Power BI cloud service.
This collector does not harvest from Power BI Report Server. There is a separate collector available for Power BI Report Server.
Important
The Power BI Service collector can be run in the Cloud or on-premise using Docker or Jar files.
Note
The latest version of the Collector is 2.206. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.
What is cataloged
The collector catalogs the following information.
Object | Information collected |
|---|---|
Workspaces | Title |
Apps | Title |
Reports | Title, External URL, Embed URL |
Report Pages | Title |
Dashboards | Title, External URL, Embed URL |
Dashboard tiles | Title, Embed URL |
Data Sources | Title, Data source type |
Datasets | Title, External URL |
Dataflows | Title, Last modified, Description |
Power BI Tables (Datasets and Dataflows) | Title, Is hidden, Description |
Power BI Columns | Title, Data type, Column type, Is hidden, Expression |
Tabular file | File path, File name |
File directory | Directory path |
Database | Title, Type, Identifier, Server, Port |
Database Schema | Title |
Database Table | Title |
Database Column | Title, Type |
Table | Title |
Column | Title, Type |
Relationships between objects
By default, the data.world catalog will include catalog pages for the resource types below. Each catalog page will have a relationship to other related resource types. Note that the catalog presentation and relationships are fully configurable, so these will list the default configuration.
Resource page | Relationship |
|---|---|
App | Report, Dashboard, Workspace |
Power BI Column | Power BI Table |
Data source | Dataset, Dataflow, Connection Details (kind and path), Tabular Data source (Database, Tabular File) |
Tile | Dashboard, Report |
Dashboard | Tile, Workspace |
Report | Tile, Workspace, Report pages, Dataset |
Report Pages | Report |
Dataset | Tile, Workspace, Report, Table, Data source, Dataset |
Workspace | Report, Dataset, Dataflow, Dashboard, App |
Dataflow | Workspace, Table, Data source, Dataflow |
Power BI Table | Dataset, Dataflow, Power BI Column |
Tabular Data source (Database, Tabular File) | Data source |
Lineage for Power BI
The following lineage information is collected by the Power BI collector.
Object | Lineage available |
|---|---|
Report | Associated Dataset |
Dashboard Tile | Associated Dataset |
Dataset | Associated Dataflow, Dashboard Tile, Report, and Dataset |
Dataflow | Associated Column, Dataset, and Dataflow Note: The collector is able to harvest lineage from Power BI expressions which use parameters in place of database server name, schema name, database table, or database name. |
Column | Associated columns that the column sources its data from or calculates its values from. Notes:
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Version supported
The collector supports Power BI Cloud API v 1.0.
Authentication supported
There are two separate ways to authenticate to Power BI:
Service principal
User and password
The collector will harvest metadata for all Power BI apps and workspaces to which the supplied account has access.