How to get lineage from Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Purview
This article explains data lineage for Fabric items in Microsoft Purview.
Prerequisites
To see data lineage in Microsoft Purview for Fabric items, you must first register and scan your Fabric tenant.
Supported capabilities
Scanning a Microsoft Fabric tenant will automatically bring in metadata and lineage from Fabric items including Power BI into Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog.
Lineage of Fabric items in Microsoft Purview
Once the scan of your Fabric tenant is complete, following Fabric items will be inventoried in Microsoft Purview:
| Experiences | Fabric items | Available in scan | Available in live view (same tenant only) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-Time Analytics | KQL Database | Yes | Yes |
| KQL Queryset | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Science | Experiment | Yes | Yes |
| ML model | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Factory | Data pipeline | Yes | Yes |
| Dataflow Gen2 | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Engineering | Lakehouse | Yes | Yes |
| Notebook | Yes | Yes | |
| Spark Job Definition | Yes | Yes | |
| SQL analytics endpoint | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Warehouse | Warehouse | Yes | Yes |
| Power BI | Dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Dataflow | Yes | Yes | |
| Datamart | Yes | Yes | |
| Semantic model (Dataset) | Yes | Yes | |
| Report | Yes | Yes | |
| Paginated report | Yes |
To see lineage for Fabric items in Microsoft Purview:
Select Unified Catalog -> Browse -> Source Types -> Microsoft Fabric -> Fabric Workspaces
Select the particular Fabric workspace, select the experience, and then the Fabric item of interest
Alternatively, users can search for a Fabric item by name, description, or other details to see relevant results.
Select the Lineage tab. Asset relationships are shown with the upstream and downstream dependencies.
Lineage of Power BI artifacts in Microsoft Purview
Refer to Power BI lineage for key details and limitations around Power BI lineage in Fabric.
Known limitations
- Currently for all Fabric items besides Power BI, only item level metadata and lineage will be scanned. Scanning metadata and lineage of sub level items like Lakehouse tables or files isn't yet supported
- For non-Power BI Fabric items, external data sources as upstream sources in lineage aren't yet supported
- Cross workspace lineage for non-Power BI items isn't supported
- Notebook -> Pipeline lineage isn't supported