How to Connect Collibra to Power BI

[karihsantos]

Hello,

I need to connect Collibra to Power BI, but I'm not sure how. Does anyone know how to do it and have any documentation with a step-by-step guide? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply from lbendlin , please allow me to provide another insight:

Hi, @karihsantos 
Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum.

Could you please let us know if lbendlin‘s response resolved your issue? If it did, kindly accept it as the solution.

I believe the link provided by lbendlin contains the complete configuration process. In my opinion, most of the content is related to configuring service principal authentication. For the service principal part, you can refer to the following link:

Register a Power BI Embedded app - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Embed Power BI content in an embedded analytics application with service principal and an applicatio...

Here is a link to the frequently asked questions about service principal authentication, which I hope will be helpful to you: 

Solved: Power BI REST API, HTTP 401 - Microsoft Fabric Community

Solved: Getting Operation returned an invalid status code ... - Microsoft Fabric Community

Of course, if you have any new discoveries or questions, please feel free to get in touch with us.
 

Best Regards,

Leroy Lu

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Set up Power BI

Your mileage may vary but our experience is that Collibra is very easily overwhelmed by the amount of meta data in Power BI, and utterly incapable of handling the frequent changes.  We have not been able to extract any value from Collibra for any sort of meaningful Power BI auditing.