Power BI ingestion workflow (deprecated)

To ingest Power BI metadata into Data Catalog, you use two types of harvesters:

Note The harvesters can run on the same or on different machines. However, the Power BI harvester must run on a Windows machine.

When the Power BI harvester initiates the Power BI integration, each workflow component performs the following actions:

  1. The Power BI harvester:
    • Communicates with Power BI.
    • Harvests Power BI metadata for ingestion and lineage.
    • Sends the Power BI metadata to the Collibra cloud environment.

    Note The Power BI harvester only harvests the metadata, it does not change it.

  2. The lineage harvester:
    • Triggers a new synchronization of the metadata in Collibra to create a technical lineage for Power BI and new relations between Power BI assets.
    • Sends the Power BI ingestion results to Data Catalog.
    • Sends the lineage results to Data Catalog.
  3. Data Catalog (via the Collibra Data Lineage server):