microsoft/fabric-rti-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 acts as a bridge between AI agents and Microsoft Fabric RTI services:

• 🔄 MCP Protocol: Uses the Model Context Protocol to expose Fabric RTI capabilities as tools
• 🏗️ Natural Language to KQL: AI agents can translate natural language requests into KQL queries
• 💡 Secure Authentication: Leverages Azure Identity for seamless, secure access to your resources
• ⚡ Real-time Data Access: Direct connection to Eventhouse and Eventstreams for live data analysis

✨ Supported Services

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

Eventstreams: Manage Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams for real-time data processing:

• List Eventstreams in workspaces
• Get Eventstream details and definitions

🚧 Coming soon

• Activator
• Other RTI items

🔍 Example Prompts

Eventhouse Analytics:

• "Get databases in my 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 across past 10 years of data"
• "Analyze the commands in 'CommandExecution' table and categorize them as low/medium/high risks"

Eventstream Management:

• "List all Eventstreams in my workspace"
• "Show me the details of my IoT data Eventstream"

Available tools

Eventhouse (Kusto) - 12 Tools:

• kusto_known_services - List all available Kusto services configured in the MCP
• kusto_query - Execute KQL queries on the specified database
• kusto_command - Execute Kusto management commands (destructive operations)
• kusto_list_databases - List all databases in the Kusto cluster
• kusto_list_tables - List all tables in a specified database
• kusto_get_entities_schema - Get schema information for all entities (tables, materialized views, functions) in a database
• kusto_get_table_schema - Get detailed schema information for a specific table
• kusto_get_function_schema - Get schema information for a specific function, including parameters and output schema
• kusto_sample_table_data - Retrieve random sample records from a specified table
• kusto_sample_function_data - Retrieve random sample records from the result of a function call
• kusto_ingest_inline_into_table - Ingest inline CSV data into a specified table
• kusto_get_shots - Retrieve semantically similar query examples from a shots table using AI embeddings

Eventstreams - 6 Tools:

• list_eventstreams - List all Eventstreams in your Fabric workspace
• get_eventstream - Get detailed information about a specific Eventstream
• get_eventstream_definition - Retrieve complete JSON definition of an Eventstream

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/",
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_DEFAULT_DB": "Samples",
                    "AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT": "https://your-openai-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-ada-002/embeddings?api-version=2024-10-21;impersonate"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Note: All environment variables are optional. The KUSTO_SERVICE_URI and KUSTO_SERVICE_DEFAULT_DB provide default cluster and database settings. The AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT is only needed for semantic search functionality in the kusto_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": {
            "fabric-rti-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/",
                    "KUSTO_SERVICE_DEFAULT_DB": "Samples",
                    "AZ_OPENAI_EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT": "https://your-openai-resource.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-ada-002/embeddings?api-version=2024-10-21;impersonate"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

🐛 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 its output:

1. Open command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run the command MCP: List Servers
2. Navigate to 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 kusto_get_shots tool retrieves shots that are most similar to your prompt from the shots table. This function requires configuration of:

• Shots table: Should have an "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: Used to create embedding vectors for your prompt. Note that this endpoint must use 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. We use Azure Identity via DefaultAzureCredential, which tries these authentication methods 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.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

🤝 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 opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Data Collection

The software may collect information about you and your use of the software and send it to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may turn off the telemetry as described in the repository. There are also some features in the software that may enable you and Microsoft to collect data from users of your applications. If you use these features, you must comply with applicable law, including providing appropriate notices to users of your applications together with a copy of Microsoft’s privacy statement. Our privacy statement is located at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824704. You can learn more about data collection and use in the help documentation and our privacy statement. Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

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