Reza Rad shows how to hook up streaming data sources to Power BI:
As I mentioned before, download the sample project. and then select the project under this path:
samples/consoleapp/getting-started-for-dotnet-real-time/PBIRealTimeStreaming
And open the PBIRealTimeStreaming solution in Visual Studio. This project creates a data set including a datetime value and a numeric value and will pass that through Power BI API (which will be discussed later in another post) to Power BI service.
Real-time dashboards are great for making it look like you’re doing Very Important Things. They can also be useful in other ways too. Read the whole thing.