About the Power BI 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.
Note
The latest version of the Collector is 2.159. 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 |
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 |
Power BI Column | Power BI Table |
Data source | Dataset, Dataflow |
Tile | Dashboard, Report |
Dashboard | Tile, Workspace |
Report | Tile, Workspace, Report pages, Dataset |
Report Pages | Report |
Dataset | Tile, Workspace, Report, Table, Data source |
Workspace | Report, Dataset, Dataflow, Dashboard |
Dataflow | Workspace, table, Data source |
Power BI Table | Dataset, Dataflow, Power BI Column |
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 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. |
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.