Connect Kafka and
Power BI with AI

Stream real-time event data from Kafka directly into Power BI dashboards and reports. Stop manually exporting event streams, writing custom connectors, or building ETL pipelines to visualize streaming data.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Stream real-time application events into live Power BI dashboards automatically

Automatically consume Kafka topics containing user activity, transactions, or system events and push them into Power BI datasets. Keep executive dashboards and operational reports updated in real-time without batch jobs or manual refreshes.

Build self-updating KPI reports from high-throughput clickstream and log data

Pull streaming clickstream, application logs, or sensor data from Kafka topics and transform them into Power BI tables and measures. Enable business users to analyze user behavior and system performance without waiting for data warehouse updates.

Aggregate and visualize IoT sensor streams in real-time monitoring dashboards

Consume high-volume sensor and telemetry data from Kafka topics, perform aggregations, and load into Power BI datasets. Create real-time monitoring dashboards for operations teams without building custom streaming infrastructure.

Publish Power BI report interactions back to Kafka for downstream processing

Capture user interactions with Power BI reports—filter changes, drill-downs, custom selections—and publish them as events to Kafka topics. Enable downstream applications to react to analyst behavior and business intelligence insights.

Transform event-driven microservice data into consolidated business intelligence reports

Consume events from multiple Kafka topics representing different microservices, join and enrich the data, and push to Power BI. Give stakeholders unified visibility across decoupled event-driven architectures without manual data assembly.

Archive Power BI dataset snapshots to Kafka topics for audit and compliance

Automatically publish Power BI dataset snapshots and report state changes as events to Kafka topics. Maintain immutable audit trails of business intelligence data and enable compliance workflows without custom logging infrastructure.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Kafka and Power BI with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands Kafka's event schemas, topic partitions, and consumer groups alongside Power BI's semantic models, DAX measures, and dataset refresh patterns.

AI that understands streaming events and BI semantics

Redbird automatically maps Kafka message schemas—JSON, Avro, Protobuf—to Power BI table structures and data types. It handles consumer offset management, partitioning strategies, and incremental dataset refreshes without manual configuration. The platform recognizes when to aggregate high-frequency events, when to preserve granular detail, and how to structure data for optimal Power BI performance.

Avro & Protobuf schema parsing
Incremental dataset refresh logic
Consumer group offset management
DAX measure compatibility
10×

faster than building custom Kafka consumers and Power BI connectors

No Kafka client libraries, no custom REST APIs, no manual dataset schema mapping

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Kafka and Power BI simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Kafka or Power BI.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Kafka into Power BI, or from Power BI back into Kafka. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any event in Kafka topics or Power BI reports and execute actions across your entire data stack.

Kafka
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New message in topic

Trigger when a new event is published to a specified Kafka topic or partition.

Trigger

Message matches schema pattern

Trigger when a Kafka message matches specific Avro, Protobuf, or JSON schema criteria.

Trigger

Consumer lag exceeds threshold

Trigger when consumer group lag grows beyond a specified offset or time threshold.

Action

Publish event to topic

Write a new message to a Kafka topic with specified key, value, and headers.

Action

Create new topic

Provision a new Kafka topic with specified partition count and replication factor.

Action

Update consumer group offset

Reset or adjust consumer group offset position for specific topic partitions.

Power BI
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Dataset refresh completed

Trigger when a Power BI dataset finishes refreshing successfully or fails.

Trigger

Report viewed or filtered

Trigger when users interact with specific Power BI reports or apply particular filters.

Trigger

Alert threshold crossed

Trigger when a Power BI data alert fires based on measure or KPI thresholds.

Action

Update dataset rows

Add, update, or delete rows in a Power BI streaming or push dataset table.

Action

Refresh dataset

Trigger an immediate refresh of a Power BI dataset or specific table.

Action

Update report parameters

Modify report-level parameters or workspace settings in Power BI dynamically.

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Ready to connect your stack?

Sync Kafka event streams with Power BI dashboards in minutes. Let Redbird handle schema mapping, consumer offsets, and dataset refreshes so your team can focus on analysis, not infrastructure.

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