Fabric adds Copilot to turn plain English into real-time data queries

Microsoft released Copilot for Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric on May 4. The feature converts everyday language into KQL queries, the language used to pull live data from Azure Data Explorer clusters connected inside Fabric. Users can now generate full dashboards straight from tables and change the queries behind single tiles without writing code. Everything runs on existing Fabric capacity. The tool cannot edit KQL that is already open in the editor. Every suggestion must be checked because results can be wrong without full data access. It also stays unavailable in private link setups that block public access.
Before this release, real-time work inside Fabric stayed out of reach for most analysts who learned on Excel. They lacked the KQL skills to query live streams and stayed with scheduled Power BI refreshes that often ran for hours on undocumented inherited files. Copilot now removes the need to write those queries by hand and can sketch out visuals automatically. This creates a route to blend live data with existing Power BI reports, but only if the underlying tables and relationships are already clean enough for someone to spot when the AI produces numbers that do not match the source.
Analysis
This is a distraction you should ignore until your current reports stop taking hours to refresh. The AI still demands that you understand the data well enough to catch its mistakes. Open your slowest inherited file today and cut at least ten redundant steps from its Power Query chain.
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