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How to get lineage from Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Purview

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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 Data 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:

  1. Select Data Catalog -> Browse -> Source Types -> Microsoft Fabric -> Fabric Workspaces

  2. Select the particular Fabric workspace, select the experience, and then the Fabric item of interest

    Screenshot showing the Fabric workspaces button in the Data Catalog.

    Screenshot showing a Fabric source with its full list of experiences.

    Alternatively, users can search for a Fabric item by name, description, or other details to see relevant results.

  3. Select the Lineage tab. Asset relationships are shown with the upstream and downstream dependencies.

    Screenshot showing lineage from one lakehouse to another.

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

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