PowerBI
Add a PowerBI connection to your decube so that you can discover the lineage of your assets from source to dashboards.
Supported Capabilities
Freshness
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Volume
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Schema Drift
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Field Health
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Custom SQL
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Job Failure
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Data Profiling
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Data Preview
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Connecting to PowerBI requires credentials that can be configured and found through this guide. These credentials include:
Tenant ID
Client ID
Client Secret

To note, for complete Lineage to report sources, with additional configurations we only support sources from:
BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL
Snowflake
Synapse
The connector might be rate-limited when it is scanning more than 1000 workspaces.
Prerequisite
Access to Azure Active Directory for service principals.
A PowerBI Pro or Premium (Premium per-user or Premium capacity ) workspace.
Admin access to PowerBI to change Tenant Settings.
Creating Service Principals and Security Group
Go to Azure Active Directory, under the Manage tab to the left of the screen, look for
App Registrations
and click it.Click on
New Registrations
on the top of the tab and you'll be presented with the screen below.

We recommend entering
decube
as the Name. Click Register when you are done.

Click Overview on the left tab and take note of the
Client ID
andTenant ID
we would require when setting up decube.Click on
Certificates and Secret
s on the left tab again and click onNew Client Secret
as below. We recommend the description to be'decube client secret
' and the expiry date to be until the end of your contract with us.
Make sure to copy the Value of the Client Secret and store it somewhere safe like Azure Key Vault. We will need this value for registration.

Go back to the Azure Active Directory main page and on the left tab again click on Groups. Click
Create New Group
.

Ensure Group Type is
Security.
Click on members and search for the previously configured Service Principal. Here it would be
decube
.

Click on
Select
to add the service principal into the group.Click on
Create
and we are done retrieving theTenant ID
,Client ID
andClient Secret
for this integration.
Setting up and providing permissions to Service Principal
On the main PowerBI workspace page, on the top right corner, click on the gear icon to Setting and below
Governance and Insight
you will findAdmin Portal
.Here in the Admin Portal, find Tenant Settings and search for
Allow service principals to use Power BI APIs under Developer Settings
.Enable it and either
Apply to Entire Organisation
orSpecific Security Group.
Here you can search for the one we created earlier. Example of how it should look like below.

Please enable and do this for the following settings as well under
Admin API
settings.
Allow service principals to use read-only admin APIs
Enhance admin APIs responses with detailed metadata
Enhance admin APIs responses with DAX and mashup expressions
Additional Configuration for lineage
To build out the lineage, we will need to know the data sources that you've referenced within your PowerBI definitions. You can do a one-time mapping for the sources by going to the Data Sources page > Modify Data Source > Additional Config.

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