FabriBuddy

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[!IMPORTANT] Your data never leaves your tenant. FabriBuddy is a Fabric App that you install in your own Fabric tenant. The scanner, its database and the app all run in a workspace you own, on your own capacity. There is no FabriBuddy server, no account, no telemetry and nothing to pay for. How this works

What you get

Data Catalog

• Table lineage, from external sources through lakehouse and warehouse tables to semantic models and reports, as a graph you can trace.
• The code that writes each table, with the exact lines highlighted: notebooks (Spark SQL and PySpark), pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, warehouse procedures, eventstreams, shortcuts and mirroring.
• Who can read each table: workspace roles, OneLake roles, and indirect access through semantic models.

Report Audience

• Who can see each Power BI report, person by person, with Entra groups opened up to their members.
• Who opens each report, from the audit log (the last 30 days).
• Pro and PPU licences nobody uses.

It reads metadata, code, access and the audit log. It never reads table rows or report data, and it never changes anything in your tenant.

How it works

flowchart LR
    api["Fabric and Power BI APIs<br/>OneLake · warehouse SQL<br/>(read-only)"]
    subgraph ws["Your FabriBuddy workspace, in your tenant"]
        direction LR
        scan["FabriBuddy_Scan<br/>notebook, run daily<br/>by Load_FabriBuddy_E2E"]
        db[("FabriBuddy_DB<br/>SQL database")]
        app["fabribuddy<br/>Fabric App"]
    end
    api -- "metadata, code,<br/>access, audit" --> scan
    scan --> db
    db -- "read as the viewer" --> app

Deploy

About 15 minutes. You need a workspace on a Fabric capacity and a service principal.

1. Import scripts/Deploy_FabriBuddy.ipynb into the workspace, fill in the service principal, and choose Run all.
2. Run the five commands its last cell prints, to add the app.
3. Open fabribuddy in the workspace.

Step-by-step guide →

Documentation

Your data stays in your tenant	What runs where, what is read, every network call
Deploy	First deployment, step by step
Service principal	The app registration, tenant setting and roles
The app	Adding the Fabric App and sharing it
Settings	What is scanned, and when
Update	Getting a new version
Troubleshooting	Common errors and their fixes

[!CAUTION] FabriBuddy is a community project, not a Microsoft product. It comes without warranty or official support. It runs on your Fabric capacity and uses its capacity units: try it on a non-production capacity first.

License

MIT. Microsoft Fabric and Power BI are trademarks of Microsoft; FabriBuddy is independent and not affiliated with Microsoft.