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Welcome back to our ongoing series on Microsoft Fabric capacity management. So far, we’ve covered: In this third installment, we’ll focus on a crucial aspect — how to alert users effectively when capacity throttling occurs. Capacity is overloaded, throttling kicks in. Let’s imagine that we don’t want to restart the capacity to monetize all the…
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Managing Microsoft Analytics: Why Auditing and Observability Are Critical Running a modern analytics platform today requires more than just keeping pace with technology—it calls for a strategic balance between innovation and operational efficiency. Many organizations using Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric face challenges when it comes to scaling, controlling costs, and maintaining optimal performance.…
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This is the 2nd part of our Fabric Capacity Management series.If you missed it, check the previous post:👉 Causes and Consequences of Capacity Overloads In the previous article, we explained what capacity throttling is and listed the most common causes. Now, let’s imagine a situation where an overload occurs, throttling kicks in, and users start…
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In the series of next posts, we’d like to go through different aspects of Microsoft Fabric Capacity management. We start with an explanation of Microsoft Fabric capacity overloads — one of the biggest headaches when utilizing this service. Why? Because overloads can paralyze a significant part of the organization’s reporting capabilities and, without a proper strategy,…
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During optimization of Microsoft Fabric Capacity, we analyzed a semantic model that was among the largest on the capacity, consuming a significant number of Capacity Units (CUs) during refresh. As part of the analysis, refresh logs were collected. We noticed that a major portion of the resource usage didn’t come from table refreshes but rather…
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Chargeback of Microsoft Fabric cost has always been a challenge. Until recently, Microsoft offered no native tools to split Microsoft Fabric cost among users. In many organizations—where Fabric is centrally managed by IT—capacity is treated as a shared resource. This creates serious limitations and shapes how self-service BI users interact with Fabric. Citizen developers often…
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A strong trend is emerging: more and more IT solutions are being placed in the hands of business users. Microsoft is pushing IT departments to hand over cloud resources to business teams. But are business users truly prepared for this shift? On the plus side, self-service means faster report development, a natural understanding of business…