Fabric Real Time Intelligence MCP

🎯 Overview

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). This server enables AI agents to interact with Fabric RTI services by providing tools through the MCP interface, allowing for seamless data querying and analysis capabilities.

[!NOTE]
This project is in Public Preview and implementation may significantly change prior to General Availability.

🔍 How It Works

The Fabric RTI MCP Server creates a seamless integration between AI agents and Fabric RTI services through:

• 🔄 Smart JSON communication that AI agents understand
• 🏗️ Natural language commands that get translated to Kql operations
• 💡 Intelligent parameter suggestions and auto-completion!
• ⚡ Consistent error handling that makes sense

✨ Supported Services

• Eventhouse (Kusto): Execute KQL queries against Microsoft Fabric RTI Eventhouse and Azure Data Explorer(ADX).

🚧 Coming soon

• Activator
• Eventstreams
• Other RTI items

🔍 Explore your data

• "Get databases in Eventhouse'"
• "Sample 10 rows from table 'StormEvents' in Eventhouse"
• "What can you tell me about StormEvents data?"
• "Analyze the StormEvents to come up with trend analysis ocross past 10 years of data"
• "Analyze the commands in 'CommandExecution' table and categorize them as low/medium/high risks"

Available tools

• List databases
• List tables
• Get schema for a table
• Sample rows from a table
• Execute query
• Ingest a csv
• Get shots

Getting Started

Prerequisites

1. Install either the stable or Insiders release of VS Code:
   • 💫 Stable release
   • 🔮 Insiders release
2. Install the GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat extensions
3. Install uv

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

or, check here for other install options

4. Open VS Code in an empty folder

Install from PyPI (Pip)

The Fabric RTI MCP Server is available on PyPI, so you can install it using pip. This is the easiest way to install the server.

From VS Code

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run the command `MCP: Add Server`
2. Select install from Pip
3. When prompted, enter the package name `microsoft-fabric-rti-mcp`
4. Follow the prompts to install the package and add it to your settings.json or your mcp.json file

The process should end with the below settings in your settings.json or your mcp.json file.

settings.json

{
    "mcp": {
        "server": {
            "fabric-rti-mcp": {
                "command": "uvx",
                "args": [
                    "microsoft-fabric-rti-mcp"
                ],
                "env": {
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_URI": "https://help.kusto.windows.net/", // optionally provide cluster URI
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_DEFAULT_DB": "Samples", // optionally provide database
                    "AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT": "https://your-openai-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-ada-002/embeddings?api-version=2024-10-21;impersonate" // optionally provide Azure OpenAI embedding endpoint (used for semantic search in the get shots tool)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

🔧 Manual Install (Install from source)

1. Make sure you have Python 3.10+ installed properly and added to your PATH.
2. Clone the repository
3. Install the dependencies (pip install . or uv tool install .)
4. Add the settings below into your vscode settings.json or your mcp.json file.
5. Modify the path to match the repo location on your machine.
6. Modify the cluster uri in the settings to match your cluster.
7. Modify the cluster default database in the settings to match your database.
8. Modify the embeddings endpoint in the settings to match yours. This step is optional and needed only in case you supply a shots table

{
    "mcp": {
        "servers": {
            "kusto-mcp": {
                "command": "uv",
                "args": [
                    "--directory",
                    "C:/path/to/fabric-rti-mcp/",
                    "run",
                    "-m",
                    "fabric_rti_mcp.server"
                ],
                "env": {
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_URI": "https://help.kusto.windows.net/", // optionally provide cluster URI
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_DEFAULT_DB": "Samples", // optionally provide database
                    "AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT": "https://your-openai-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-ada-002/embeddings?api-version=2024-10-21;impersonate" // optionally provide Azure OpenAI embedding endpoint (used for semantic search in the get shots tool)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

🐛 Debugging the MCP Server locally

Assuming you have python installed and the repo cloned:

Install locally

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Configure

Follow the Manual Install instructions.

Attach the debugger

Use the Python: Attach configuration in your launch.json to attach to the running server. Once VS Code picks up the server and starts it, navigate to it's output:

1. Open command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run the command MCP: List Servers
2. Navigate to local-fabric-rti-mcp and select Show Output
3. Pick up the process id (PID) of the server from the output
4. Run the Python: Attach configuration in your launch.json file, and paste the PID of the server in the prompt
5. The debugger will attach to the server process, and you can start debugging

🧪 Test the MCP Server

1. Open GitHub Copilot in VS Code and switch to Agent mode
2. You should see the Fabric RTI MCP Server in the list of tools
3. Try a prompt that tells the agent to use the Eventhouse tools, such as "List my Kusto tables"
4. The agent should be able to use the Fabric RTI MCP Server tools to complete your query

⚙️ Configuration

The MCP server can be configured using the following environment variables:

Required Environment Variables

None - the server will work with default settings for demo purposes.

Optional Environment Variables

Embedding Endpoint Configuration

The AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT is used by the semantic search functionality (e.g., kusto_get_shots function) to find similar query examples.

Format Requirements:

https://{your-openai-resource}.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/{deployment-name}/embeddings?api-version={api-version};impersonate

Components:

• {your-openai-resource}: Your Azure OpenAI resource name
• {deployment-name}: Your text embedding deployment name (e.g., text-embedding-ada-002)
• {api-version}: API version (e.g., 2024-10-21, 2023-05-15)
• ;impersonate: Authentication method (you might use managed identity)

Authentication Requirements:

• Your Azure identity must have access to the OpenAI resource
• In case using managed identity, the OpenAI resource must should be configured to accept managed identity authentication
• The deployment must exist and be accessible

Configuration of Shots table

The get shots tool retrieves shots that are most similar to your prompt out of the shots table. This function requires configuration of:

• Shots table that should have "EmbeddingText" (string) column containing the natural language prompt, "AugmentedText" (string) column containing the respective KQL, and "EmbeddingVector" (dynamic) column containing the embedding vector of the EmbeddingText.
• Azure OpenAI embedding endpoint to create embedding vectors for your prompt. Note that this endpoint must embed using the same model that was used for creating the "EmbeddingVector" column in the Shots table.

🔑 Authentication

The MCP Server seamlessly integrates with your host operating system's authentication mechanisms, making it super easy to get started! We use Azure Identity under the hood via DefaultAzureCredential, which tries these credentials in order:

1. Environment Variables (EnvironmentCredential) - Perfect for CI/CD pipelines
2. Visual Studio (VisualStudioCredential) - Uses your Visual Studio credentials
3. Azure CLI (AzureCliCredential) - Uses your existing Azure CLI login
4. Azure PowerShell (AzurePowerShellCredential) - Uses your Az PowerShell login
5. Azure Developer CLI (AzureDeveloperCliCredential) - Uses your azd login
6. Interactive Browser (InteractiveBrowserCredential) - Falls back to browser-based login if needed

If you're already logged in through any of these methods, the Fabric RTI MCP Server will automatically use those credentials.

🛡️ Security Note

Your credentials are always handled securely through the official Azure Identity SDK - we never store or manage tokens directly.

MCP as a phenomenon is very novel and cutting-edge. As with all new technology standards, consider doing a security review to ensure any systems that integrate with MCP servers follow all regulations and standards your system is expected to adhere to. This includes not only the Azure MCP Server, but any MCP client/agent that you choose to implement down to the model provider.

👥 Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

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🤝 Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

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