Call TimeSeriesInsights with RestAPI

[Anonymous]

Hello community,

I am currently trying to visualize data from Azure Time Series Insights in Power BI.
As there is currently - to my knowledge - no connector for Time Series Insights for PowerBI yet, the RestAPI connector from CData came to my mind.

The DSN configuration of the connector looks like this:

If I now want to connect to this connector in PowerBI Desktop, I get the following error message:

Did I forget something during the configuration?

I have done an app registration in Azure to get the ClientSecret and the ClientId.

The API should be queried via DirectQuery and the ResultSet of the API call is probably a JSON.
If the connection works, do I have a way to parse the json in Direct Query mode in PowerBI?

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Christopher

[TeigeGao]

Hi @Anonymous ,

>>If the connection works, do I have a way to parse the json in Direct Query mode in PowerBI?

We can use the Json.Document function to return the contents of a JSON document. Then we can expand the data, for more information, please refer to this blog: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4621/using-power-bi-with-json-data-sources-and-files/

But based on the error message, it looks like that we cannot get data from Azure Time Series directly, as a workaround, we can create another source and import data to this source, then let PowerBI access to this source.

Best Regards,

Teige