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Fabric Metadata
Hello friends
Looking for some help in idnetifying just what and where backend metadata exisits that is commonly accessed via the Fabric API,PBI API access and monitor.
Would like to access things like - who accessed a PBI report , State of a notebook active,waiting etc , a pipeline activity was success and took 5minutes etc etc without usings API's
Is there a way to be able to access that data directly or have all that data fed near real/real time into a location that is accessible by a query tool and not apis .
Hi AlanCargill
Microsoft Fabric stores metadata about various activities and resources in a proprietary metadata storage system that is not directly accessible without using APIs.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/governance/metadata-scanning-overview
Great discussion here :
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-platform/fabric-metadata-system-details/td-p/4002243The Monitoring Hub in Microsoft Fabric provides a centralized location to view and track activities across workspaces
Pipeline Run History
While not a direct Fabric solution, Power BI Analytics is a platform designed to access Power BI usage data without coding or API interaction
Please aceept the solution if this is helpful and give kudos
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Hi AlanCargill
Microsoft Fabric stores metadata about various activities and resources in a proprietary metadata storage system that is not directly accessible without using APIs.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/governance/metadata-scanning-overview
Great discussion here :
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-platform/fabric-metadata-system-details/td-p/4002243The Monitoring Hub in Microsoft Fabric provides a centralized location to view and track activities across workspaces
Pipeline Run History
While not a direct Fabric solution, Power BI Analytics is a platform designed to access Power BI usage data without coding or API interaction
Please aceept the solution if this is helpful and give kudosthank you for the information nilendraFabric .
i had seen this before 'Microsoft Fabric stores metadata about various activities and resources in a proprietary metadata storage system that is not directly accessible without using APIs.'
but wondered if it had changed at all or if it still was the case .
As it still is the case then perhaps 'azure log analyitcs' can help as we would not require apis to access that?
I have not yet read up on the ‘Power Bi Analytics’ you mentioned so don’t yet know what that is and if it can help
The monitor is a little too basic for our needs ,As we are looking to create a list in showing dependency’s of all the notebook, pipeline activities relating to enterprise ETL . So that at any point in the day we can have a pbi show us what is :-waiting, run, running, blocked , , symantic model has refreshed etc in a single lineage/hierarchical view .
also
i hope that Azure log analytics would also provide user activities like the ones we would find in the unified audit log, so say users accessing a pbi report ,who ran a notebook , who downloaded a pbi etc etc
Hi AlanCargill,
In addition to the helpful response provided by nilendraFabric, could you please confirm if your query have been resolved? If so, please accept it as a solution and leave a "Kudos" so other members can find it more easily.
Thank you.
