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MetaMiner for Microsoft Fabric & Power BI

MetaMiner collects the metadata, activity and capacity data of your Microsoft Fabric and Power BI tenant into one database on your own server, so you can explore, govern, back up and report on the whole tenant from one place.

What MetaMiner does

The MetaMiner Server (MMS) signs in to your tenant as a service principal that you register in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). On a schedule it reads workspaces, reports, semantic models, dataflows, Fabric items, lineage, data sources, apps, capacities, gateways, connections, refresh history, activity events and (optionally) Fabric Capacity Metrics and Entra users, groups and licenses into the MetaMiner Database (MMDB).

Administrators and BI teams then work with that metadata in the MetaMiner Client (MMC) and in the browser: search the tenant in the Power BI Explorer, trace impact from a data source to the reports that use it, review who has access, manage workspace access, back up and restore content, and read the Power BI Usage dashboards.

The MetaMiner Administrator (MMA) configures the server: the Power BI environment (your tenant), the database, the license and the server settings.

The background collection only reads. Changes to your tenant happen only when a signed-in person runs an action such as Manage Access or Restore, under that person's own Microsoft permissions.

How the pieces connect

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  MMC[MetaMiner Client] -->|TCP 49714| MMS
  WEB[Browser] -->|dashboards, TCP 49714| MMS
  MMA[MetaMiner Administrator] -->|configuration| MMS
  MMS[MetaMiner Server] --> MMDB[(MetaMiner Database)]
  MMS -->|HTTPS 443| ENTRA[Microsoft Entra ID sign-in]
  MMS -->|HTTPS 443| PBI[Power BI admin REST API]
  MMS -->|HTTPS 443| FAB[Fabric REST API]
  MMS -->|HTTPS 443, optional| GRAPH[Microsoft Graph]

All connections to Microsoft are outbound HTTPS from the MetaMiner server. Nothing is installed in your tenant, and no tenant data is sent to Infolytik.

Image of the MetaMiner Client Power BI Explorer with a workspace expanded showing reports, semantic models and dataflows

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Start here

  • Get Started

    Concepts, requirements, installation and the quickstart from installer to a populated Power BI Explorer.

  • Microsoft Setup

    Register the Entra application, grant permissions and turn on the Fabric tenant settings MetaMiner needs.

  • Administration

    Add the Power BI environment, validate it, set up the database and run the server.

  • Client

    Connect the MetaMiner Client, browse the Power BI Explorer and run impact, security and license analysis.

  • Backup and Restore

    Back up workspaces and Fabric items on a schedule and restore them to the same or another workspace.

  • Usage Dashboards

    Activity, content health, refreshes, licensing and capacity dashboards in the browser.

  • Security

    Tenant security posture, MetaMiner users and roles, SSL and hardening.

  • Help

    Validation errors, collection problems, reference tables and support.