# fabric-dw MCP Server MCP server for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses and SQL Analytics Endpoints **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled fabric-dw yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `ghcr.io/sdebruyn/fabric-dw:2026.8.0` on oci. Runs locally. ## Known issues **352 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12. ### Most discussed ### feat(observability): add opt-out telemetry (OpenTelemetry traces + metrics) ## Goal Add **opt-out, anonymous, privacy-respecting usage telemetry** to the CLI and MCP server so the project maintainers can understand how the tool is actually used — which commands are run, what errors occur, and where. Telemetry is enabled by default but must be trivially disable-able. This is **not** about local observability (traces, spans, metrics for the operator's own infrastructure) — that is a separate concern. This issue is strictly about **project-level usage telemetry** sent fr [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/339) · 2026-06-15 · closed · 5 comments ### feat(permissions): dynamic data masking (column masks + UNMASK), depends on #916 > DESIGN ONLY. Depends on #916 (the `permissions` group, for the UNMASK permission). Do not implement until #916 has shipped and this design is approved. ## Summary Dynamic data masking (DDM) in Fabric has two parts: (1) managing the mask on a column via `ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... ADD/DROP MASKED`, and (2) the `UNMASK` permission that lets a principal see unmasked values (reuses the #916 `permissions sql` plane). Supported on Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint. Docs: https://learn.mi [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/920) · 2026-06-29 · closed · 3 comments ### feat(permissions): row-level security (security policies + predicates), depends on #916 > DESIGN ONLY. Depends on #916 (the `permissions` group). Do not implement until #916 has shipped and this design is approved. ## Summary Row-level security (RLS) in Fabric restricts which rows a principal can read/write via a SECURITY POLICY that attaches filter and/or block predicates (inline table-valued functions) to a table. This is a NEW surface that manages the POLICY lifecycle and references an EXISTING predicate function; it does NOT author the predicate function body (that is a user- [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/919) · 2026-06-29 · closed · 3 comments ### feat(permissions): column-level security (column-scoped GRANT/DENY), extends #916 > DESIGN ONLY. Depends on #916 (the `permissions sql` plane). Do not implement until #916 has shipped and this design is approved. ## Summary Column-level security (CLS) in Fabric is implemented entirely through column-scoped object permissions: `GRANT` / `DENY` / `REVOKE` of `SELECT` (and a few other permissions) on a comma-delimited column list of a table. There is no separate CLS object; it is a thin extension of the #916 `permissions sql` commands, not a new group. Docs: https://learn.mic [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/918) · 2026-06-29 · closed · 3 comments ### feat(permissions)!: new 'permissions' group for T-SQL granular permissions + relocate Fabric item-level permissions > DESIGN ONLY. This issue proposes the command/tool structure for review. No implementation should start until the maintainer approves the design (and the open questions at the bottom are decided). ## Goal Add a new top-level `permissions` command group that gives full CRUD over **T-SQL granular (in-database) permissions** on all warehouse securables (database, schema, table, view, function, procedure) via `GRANT` / `REVOKE` / `DENY`, plus reads of the current grants. Relocate the existing **F [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/916) · 2026-06-29 · closed · 3 comments ### Most recent ### refactor: remove all product telemetry and unwind telemetry-driven architecture ## Decision Remove product usage telemetry from `fabric-dw` completely. This is a removal, not a default-off switch, dormant implementation, reduced event set, exporter swap, or abstraction kept for possible future reuse. The usage snapshot has already answered the useful directional questions: the project has real external use, SQL execution is the dominant workflow, and discovery/error UX is the useful product follow-up. The ongoing code, dependency, privacy, review, and runtime cost is not [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1057) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments ### docs: move protocol and transport detail off the README and install page ## Problem The README and `docs/install.md` carry protocol and transport detail that belongs neither on a landing page nor in an installation guide. Both sections were added with the SDK v2 migration (#1043) and describe things almost no reader needs. ### The 4 MiB body limit The same paragraph now exists in four places: - `README.md:186` - `docs/install.md:481` - `docs/reference/hosting-mcp-server.md:20` - `docs/troubleshooting.md:189` (as a proper symptom-first entry, which is the right sh [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1055) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments ### security(telemetry): undocumented hourly control-plane poll from the Azure exporter ## What happens `BaseExporter.__init__` in `azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter` starts a `ConfigurationWorker` daemon thread that polls ``` https://settings.sdk.monitor.azure.com/AzMonSDKDynamicConfigurationChanges ``` roughly hourly, sending the operating system, `rp`, `attach`, component, version, region and the instrumentation key. It also acts as a remote kill switch for the exporter's offline storage. This is shared by the log exporter, so it is live on `main` today. It does not come [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1053) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 1 comment ### chore(telemetry): clean up the loose ends from the #1051 review ## Context Review of #1051 surfaced a set of small items that were deliberately kept out of that PR to keep the fix round focused. None is a defect that matters on its own; together they are worth one pass. ## 1. Losing the provider race now builds and discards a real Azure exporter `install_mcp_span_pipeline` was changed to build the exporter and processor before claiming the global provider, which was the right fix for the ordering bug. The side effect is that an embedded-host process, wher [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1052) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 1 comment ### feat(telemetry): collect MCP protocol spans from the SDK ## What Collect the MCP SDK's OpenTelemetry protocol spans into the project's Application Insights, stripping request-supplied free-text values on the way out. ## Why this is the cheap option The SDK already produces this instrumentation. It covers every protocol message, it is maintained upstream, and it keeps covering new message types as the protocol evolves without anyone here remembering to add a field. Hand-rolled telemetry is the opposite: every new thing worth measuring is a code chan [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1049) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments ### security(mcp): non-loopback binds lose Host and Origin validation under SDK v2 ## What changes Under the MCP SDK v2 migration (#1043 / PR #1045), a server started with a non-loopback host loses Host and Origin validation entirely. The default loopback path is unaffected. This is not a change anyone made deliberately. It falls out of where the two SDK versions compute the setting. **v1**: `FastMCP.__init__` derived `transport_security` from the *constructor's* `host` argument, which this project never passed, so it defaulted to `127.0.0.1` and froze a loopback-only allow [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1046) · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments ### chore(deps)!: migrate to MCP Python SDK v2 ## Summary Migrate from MCP Python SDK 1.28.1 to 2.0.0. This is a real migration, not a version bump: the module tree `mcp.server.fastmcp` does not exist in v2. There is no alias, no shim and no deprecation period, so every module importing it fails at import time. That is why the dependabot PR #1039, which only widens the constraint to `<3`, fails Type check, Unit tests, Runtime smoke and Slow tests at once. #1039 is closed in favour of this. #1042 has landed (`cacc7b8`). The shared test help [Read the thread](https://github.com/sdebruyn/fabric-dw-mcp-cli/issues/1043) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments [See all 23 reports Pod holds for fabric-dw](/mcp/fabric-dw/issues) — of 352 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used fabric-dw yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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