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Easily recreate your ADX dashboards as Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric

Your organization may already have multiple ADX dashboards that are used frequently to analyze and visualize critical data. Now, you can easily bring those dashboards into Microsoft Fabric, a more powerful ecosystem without relocating your data.

In this article, we’ll cover how to seamlessly create Real-Time Dashboards as copies of your ADX dashboards in Fabric, highlight the benefits of Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric, and guide you step-by-step through the transition process.

Why move your dashboards to Fabric?

Recreating your ADX dashboards in Fabric as Real-Time Dashboards provides a streamlined way to access new capabilities while keeping your existing data architecture intact. Fabric allows Real-Time Dashboards to connect directly to your ADX clusters in Azure, enabling you to:

  • Retain your data in place: there’s no need to move your data from Azure—Fabric connects directly to your ADX clusters.
  • Leverage new features: take advantage of advanced functionalities like enhanced sharing and permission management, integration with PowerBI OrgApps, Git and ALM support, visual exploration capabilities and more. 
  • Easy discovery of organizational dashboards: use Fabric’s workspace advanced search and filter capabilities to locate your dashboards and easily browse through your organization’s dashboards.
  • Expand your analytics ecosystem: integrate your dashboards into the Fabric environment for unified data governance, scalability, and security.
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How to create Real-Time Dashboards from ADX Dashboards

To recreate your ADX dashboards as Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric in just a few simple steps:

  1. Export your ADX dashboard 
    • Use the file menu to export a dashboard to a JSON file (in the dashboard, select the Manage tab –> Export to file.)
  2. Create a new Real-Time Dashboard in Fabric
    • Browse to the desired workspace.
    • Select +New –> Real-Time Dashboard.
    • Enter a dashboard name and select Create.
  3. Import your dashboard into Fabric
    • In the dashboard, select the Manage tab –> Replace with file.
    • Select the file to update the dashboard.
    • Select Save.

Note

Dashboards permissions are not recreated as part of the Import process, and you will need to set access rights in Fabric.

Learn more about Real-Time Dashboards permissions management in Fabric and Real-Time Dashboards and underlying KQL databases access separation (preview) | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric


Learn More

Ready to take your dashboards to the next level? Explore the full range of capabilities offered by Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric and discover how they can empower your organization to make data-driven decisions faster:

Explore data in Real-Time Dashboard tiles – Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

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