Trusted Data Lens
Power BI Lineage Lens
Understand how data moves across Power BI workspaces, datasets, reports, and dashboards.
Power BI Lineage Lens
The Power BI Lineage Lens brings clarity to the analytical layer of the Microsoft estate. It reveals how datasets, dataflows, reports, and dashboards depend on one another, so leaders can retire, modify, or promote analytical assets with confidence and without breaking downstream reporting.
What This Lens Reveals
- Workspace-to-workspace dependencies across the tenant
- Datasets, dataflows, and reports with no clear owner
- Duplicate or near-duplicate reports drifting across teams
- Downstream impact of retiring or changing a dataset
- Reports still consuming legacy or sunset data sources
Signals It Brings Together
- Power BI workspace, dataset, dataflow, and report metadata
- Sharing, endorsement, and certification signals
- Refresh history and dataset utilization
- Source connections into SharePoint, OneDrive, and Fabric
How Findings Drive Action in Smart Stack 3.0
- Trusted Data Refinery to consolidate duplicated source content
- Trusted Data Collections to organize approved analytical inputs
- OneLake Precision Mirror to promote governed datasets into Fabric
- Trusted Data Portal to route ownership reviews and change requests
Back to Trusted Data Lens
Return to the seven LensesKey Benefits
- Change with Confidence: See downstream impact before modifying or retiring analytical assets.
- Reduce Analytical Sprawl: Surface duplicated reports and unused datasets across workspaces.
- Assign Ownership: Identify unowned datasets and reports before they become risk.
- Prepare for Fabric: Understand what should be promoted, consolidated, or left behind.
Conclusion
Trusted Data Lens is read-only. Findings from this Lens drive governed action through the rest of Smart Stack 3.0.