Visualization integrations overview
Azure Data Explorer integrates with various visualization tools, so you can visualize your data and share the results across your organization. This data can be transformed into actionable insights to make an impact on your business.
Data visualization and reporting is a critical step in the data analytics process. Azure Data Explorer supports many BI services so you can use the one that best fits your scenario and budget.
Use the following filters to see other connectors, tools, and integrations are available for your use case.
Azure Data Explorer dashboards
Azure Data Explorer dashboards is a web application that enables you to run queries and build dashboards in the stand-alone web application, the Azure Data Explorer web UI. Azure Data Explorer dashboards provide three main advantages:
- Natively export queries from the Azure Data Explorer web UI to Azure Data Explorer dashboards.
- Explore the data in the Azure Data Explorer web UI.
- Optimized dashboard rendering performance.
For more information, see, Visualize data with Azure Data Explorer dashboards.
Kusto Query Language visualizations
The Kusto Query Language render operator offers various visualizations such as tables, pie charts, and bar charts to depict query results. Query visualizations are helpful in anomaly detection and forecasting, machine learning, and more.
Power BI
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Power BI using various methods:
Microsoft Excel
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Microsoft Excel using the built-in native Excel connector.
Grafana
Grafana provides an Azure Data Explorer plugin that enables you to visualize data from Azure Data Explorer. You set up Azure Data Explorer as a data source for Grafana, and then visualize the data.
Kibana
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Kibana using K2Bridge, an open source connector. You set up Azure Data Explorer as a data source for Kibana, and then visualize the data.
ODBC connector
Azure Data Explorer provides an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connector so any application that supports ODBC can connect to Azure Data Explorer.
Tableau
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Tableau using the ODBC connector and then visualize the data in Tableau.
Qlik
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Qlik using the ODBC connector and then create Qlik Sense dashboards and visualize the data.
Sisense
Azure Data Explorer provides the capability to connect to Sisense using the JDBC connector. You set up Azure Data Explorer as a data source for Sisense, and then visualize the data.