- Via the lineage harvester
- Via Edge, as described in this topic.
Power BI integration via the Power BI harvester is deprecated and no longer supported.
Technical lineage is a detailed lineage graph that shows how data transforms and flows from source to destination across its entire lifecycle. It enables you to easily discover where tables and columns are used and how they relate to each other.
During the technical lineage process, relations of the type "Data Element targets / sources Data Element" are automatically created:
- Between data objects in your data source and assets from registered data sources.
- Between ingested assets from BI sources and Data Catalog assets from registered data sources.
Before Collibra 2023.02, if you wanted to collect source code from Power BI and create these new relations, you had to prepare a configuration file and use the lineage harvester. With Collibra 2023.02, you can now integrate Power BI by configuring the lineage harvester as a capability on Edge. Benefits include:
- Seamless integration with Data Catalog.
- The Edge User Interface (UI), instead of Command Line Interface (CLI).
- Power BI connection from Edge, instead of lineage harvester drivers.
You can still use the lineage harvester as a standalone app.
- You can't work with Edge via the REST API.
- You can't migrate from Jobserver to Edge to preserve the metadata that you manually added to the assets that you ingested via Jobserver.