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Scan Microsoft Fabric Items in Microsoft Purview

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Henry_Shi
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Jan 29, 2024

Previously we have announced the Public preview for Microsoft Fabric Items in Microsoft Purview and starting from December 13th 2023, scanning Fabric tenants registered with the Fabric data source in Microsoft Purview will capture metadata and lineage from Fabric items including Power BI. The new feature is available in all Microsoft Purview public cloud regions.

 

There are no additional configuration steps needed to enable scanning Fabric items besides Power BI for existing scans. To create a new scan, the experience of registering a Fabric tenant and setting up the scan is similar to the Power BI tenant and shared among all Fabric items. You can start by registering your Fabric tenant by following the guidance  Connect to your Microsoft Fabric tenant in the same tenant as Microsoft Purview (Preview) or Connect to your Microsoft Fabric tenant from Microsoft Purview in a different tenant (Preview).

 

Figure 1: Example of registering a data source

 

Figure 2: Searching for demos in Microsoft Purview

 

Figure 3: Example of a demo report

 

Supported Fabric items in scan

Experiences  Fabric items available in scan 
Real-Time Analytics  KQL Database 
KQL Queryset 
Data Science  Experiment 
ML Model 
Data Factory  Data pipeline 
Dataflow Gen2 
Data Engineering  Lakehouse 
Notebook 
Spark Job Definition 
SQL analytics endpoint 
Data Warehouse  Warehouse 
Power BI  Dashboard 
Dataflow 
Datamart 
Semantic model (Dataset)
Report 
Paginated report

 

Known limitations

For all Fabric items besides Power BI:

  • Only item-level metadata and lineage will be captured, scanning metadata and lineage of sub-level items like Lakehouse tables or files isn't supported.
  • Scanning with a self-hosted integration runtime isn't supported.

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Updated Jan 29, 2024
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  • dhriti575's avatar
    dhriti575
    Copper Contributor

    Is there any way to do scope scan, like scanning specific workspace's metadata? I know, that there is no direct method for it now, but any other way can we manage, like setting credential at workspace level and use it while defined scanning mechanism?

  • ThomasEU's avatar
    ThomasEU
    Copper Contributor

    Are there plans to scan sub-level items for lakehouses in the near future? It would be great to use purview as a catalogue for a spefic organisational lakehouse.