Power BI SSH Tunneling

[kwonsok]

Hi,

I am currently using the free version of Power BI in Windows 10.

Please let me know how to query data from a MySQL database with SSH tunneling.

Thank you.

[ptacquet]

It's possible to do it.

But you need to open a ssh tunnel with a tool like putty and forwarding ports.

It worked for me following this tuto

https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/mysql/remote-mysql-connections

[psdhillon1]

Hey @ptacquet, Can you help me. I am struck in same boat. We have got bastion server firewall between MySQL server which needs to be accessed through ssh with VPN using pem/ppk files. I have been able to connect trough putty. In putty, i can see the databases etc through ssh. But i am not able to get database connected to powerbi. I am missing some forwarding ports stuff i think. Can you help me with some lead/clues

[v-juanli-msft]

Hi @kwonsok

Based on my research , Power BI does not support a MySQL database with SSH tunneling.

There is a similar idea about this issue, please vote it up.

MySQL over SSH connection

Additionaly, please read the discussion under it, someone provided a workaround.

Best regards

Maggie

[MaxW]

Hi Kwonsok,

I am not aware of a way to configure two stage authentication in powerBI (I.e SSH into server and login to database). I had a similar requirement to query a PostgreSQL database on a headless linux server, which required using a SSH key file.

If there's a better way I'd like to know myself, but the workaround I used was to use the PuTTY command line tools 'plink' and 'pscp' in a daily job to populate a .csv file with my query and transfer it to my reporting server. You could use the .csv file as is, but I have another job to import the .csv into a SQL Server table.

I did consider trying to make a linked server but I had spent enough time already and I only needed one query. It works well although obviously not great for large amounts of data.