Differentiate Between Fabric Connections That Use Key Vault References and Those That Don’t

[Bharath_Kumar_S]

Hi, 
I’ve been exploring connection management in Fabric, and noticed there’s currently no straightforward way to tell whether a connection is using a Key Vault reference or storing credentials directly.

I tried to get this programmatically using the Fabric REST API (connections), but both types of connections look identical there’s no property or flag showing whether a connection uses a Key Vault reference.

Not knowing which connections use KV references makes auditing and governance harder. And we don't know which connection to update with KV reference.

Has anyone found a reliable way to differentiate these connections?

Any tips, undocumented APIs, or best practices for identifying them would be very helpful.

Regards,

Bharath Kumar S

[v-priyankata]

Hi @Bharath_Kumar_S 

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Fabric Forum Community.

@lbendlin @tayloramy Thanks for the inputs.

I hope you've submitted this as an idea in the Ideas Forum, For any further discussions or questions, please reach the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum  we’ll be happy to assist.

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[lbendlin]

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[tayloramy]

Hi @Bharath_Kumar_S, 

To my knowledge, the service treats these connections as the same. I've not been able to identify any way to tell them apart programatically. 

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