Always-on campaign reporting
Campaign, ad set, ad, and creative data refreshes automatically — as often as every 15 minutes — so your dashboards are never stale.
Meta Ads Power BI Connector
Sync your Meta Ads campaigns, ad sets, ads, and performance metrics from Facebook and Instagram straight into Power BI — no manual CSV exports and no API code. Point-and-click setup in under five minutes.
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What is the Meta Ads Power BI Connector?
The Meta Ads Power BI Connector automatically syncs your Meta Ads data — across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and the Audience Network — into a dedicated database and surfaces it in Power BI, giving your whole team live campaign dashboards without manual exports or a single line of API code.
Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence platform for interactive dashboards and reports. With the Power BI Connector your analysts can track spend, conversions, ROAS, and creative performance alongside the rest of your business data, then refresh it automatically on a schedule you control.
Campaign, ad set, ad, and creative data refreshes automatically — as often as every 15 minutes — so your dashboards are never stale.
Your Meta Ads data lands in a managed Azure SQL database with tables, keys, and relationships pre-built. Connect Power BI, or any SQL client, directly.
Meta buries conversions and revenue inside nested action arrays. The connector lands them as clean, query-ready tables so ROAS and CPA are simple to report.
Skip the Meta Marketing API, custom scripts, and manual downloads. Point-and-click setup connects your account in under five minutes.
Why Power BI
Meta Business Manager is built for launching campaigns across Facebook and Instagram, not analyzing them. Its reporting is hard to trend over time, buries conversions and revenue inside nested arrays, and forces a CSV export the moment you need to combine it with anything else — Power BI’s old native Facebook connector was deprecated years ago. Syncing Meta Ads into Power BI turns that raw data into governed, always-fresh dashboards you can blend with every other channel. Here are some of the things teams build once the data lands in Power BI:
Meta spans Facebook, Instagram, Reels, Stories, and the Audience Network. Compare spend and ROAS by platform and placement to see whether Feed, Stories, or Reels actually earns its budget.
Meta’s conversions and revenue are buried in nested action arrays. Surface Pixel and Conversions API events in Power BI to report purchases, revenue, ROAS, and CPA the way finance defines them.
Track frequency, CTR, and CPM by ad and creative over time so you can refresh creative before performance — and budget — quietly erodes.
Go past Ads Manager’s flat exports. Drill from campaign to ad set to ad to individual creative in one model to see exactly what’s driving — or dragging — results.
Break performance down by age, gender, region, and device to find the segments that convert, and stop paying to reach the ones that don’t.
Meta is rarely the only channel. Blend it with HubSpot, Google Ads, and other sources to credit the full funnel and tie Meta spend to real pipeline and revenue.
A live Power BI report built directly on your synced Meta Ads data.
How it works
No ETL engineers. No Meta Marketing API code. Point-and-click setup that takes under 5 minutes.
Authenticate your Meta Ads account via OAuth from the Datawarehouse.io app. Meta Business or Ad Account access works. Takes under two minutes.
Start your trial and receive your connector credentials from the Datawarehouse.io app. Then add the database as a Data Source in Power BI following the instructions here.
We build all your Meta Ads tables and relationships in the database, then sync your data on your chosen schedule — from every 24 hours down to every 15 minutes.
Your Meta Ads data belongs in Power BI — not locked behind Ads Manager exports. Start your free trial today.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
The Meta Ads Power BI Connector by Datawarehouse.io automatically connects Meta Ads to Power BI. It provisions a dedicated database, creates all necessary tables and schemas, and continuously syncs your Meta Ads data — campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, audiences, placements, and conversion metrics across Facebook and Instagram — without any ETL engineering.
Datawarehouse.io provisions a dedicated Azure-hosted MS SQL Server database, creates all tables and schemas, then continuously syncs your Meta Ads data on your chosen schedule. Your database credentials are available in the Datawarehouse.io app. Add the database as a Data Source in Power BI and start building dashboards in minutes.
Your sync frequency depends on your plan: Lite syncs every 24 hours, Standard every 6 hours, Advanced every hour, and Max every 15 minutes. Standard, Advanced, and Max users can also set their preferred sync time.
Yes. HubSpot, Google Ads, and other data sources are available from the Datawarehouse.io app, included at no extra cost. Blend Meta Ads spend with CRM revenue and other paid media in a single Power BI model for true cross-channel attribution.
Yes. All Datawarehouse.io apps allow you to add other users to your account or database. Users can be added in seconds through our self service user interface.
Yes. SOC 2 certified and GDPR compliant. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Only you have read-only access to your Azure SQL database. Meta Ads authentication uses OAuth 2.0. Data is processed in Azure EU West or North America depending on your billing region.
Yes. Users on the Standard (6-hour), Advanced (1-hour), and Max (15-minute) plans can set their preferred sync time from the Datawarehouse.io app.
No. The connector handles all Meta Marketing API access, pagination, and schema management for you. There is no code to write and no API quota to manage — point-and-click setup connects your account in under five minutes.
Yes. A free trial is available on every plan. A free Power BI dashboard template is also included to help you get started quickly.
Security
Independently audited security controls covering availability, confidentiality, and processing integrity.
All data encrypted in transit and at rest. Only you have read-only access to your Azure SQL database. Meta Ads authentication uses OAuth 2.0.
Data processed in Microsoft Azure EU West or North America depending on your billing region.
Your data lives in its own dedicated Azure SQL database — never shared with other customers. Provisioned, maintained, and backed up for you.
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