Fabric Capacity Observability & Diagnostics
Ingest official Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App exports or test synthetic stress scenarios. Evaluate 24-hour background smoothing, pinpoint peak query spikes, and predict throttling before users are impacted.
Observed Telemetry vs Planned Scenario (Enterprise Production Baseline (F64 Target))
Derived from active scenario inputs in Workspace.
Utilization: 36% | Headroom: 64%
Maintain current F128 sizing. Monitor monthly growth to adjust before utilization exceeds 80%.
Hourly CU Consumption & 24-Hour Smoothing Timeline
Visualizes raw interactive and background CU demand along with Microsoft Fabric's 24-hour background smoothing curve against the F64 capacity threshold.
Workload Engine Distribution
Proportion of total CU-hours consumed across Microsoft Fabric engines during the observed timeframe.
Smoothing & Throttling Mechanics
Microsoft Fabric SpecificationPower BI report renders, DAX queries, and lakehouse previews are smoothed over a 5-minute sliding window. Sudden concurrent spikes can immediately trigger Interactive Delays (UI pauses) if borrow thresholds are exceeded.
Spark notebooks, Data Factory pipelines, and Lakehouse compaction are smoothed over a 24-hour sliding window. A heavy batch job borrows capacity against future hours without immediate throttling, provided it clears within 24 hours.
When continuous consumption exceeds capacity limit for 10 consecutive minutes, subsequent user queries experience artificial delays to protect compute stability.
If accumulated borrow debt reaches the equivalent of 60 minutes of full capacity starvation, new interactive operations are rejected with HTTP 429 throttling errors.
Top Capacity-Consuming Artifacts
Identify which workspaces, notebooks, models, or pipelines are driving your monthly compute costs.
| Artifact / Item Name | Engine / Kind | Total CU-Hours | % of Capacity | Total Operations | Peak Burst CU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Financial Model | SemanticModel | 177 CU-h | 40.1% | 11 | 59 CU |
| Global Sales Dashboard | SemanticModel | 82.6 CU-h | 18.7% | 11 | 28 CU |
| Silver Delta Cleansing | Notebook | 60 CU-h | 13.6% | 5 | 38 CU |
| Raw Ingestion Pipeline | Pipeline | 50 CU-h | 11.3% | 5 | 32 CU |
| IoT Fleet Telemetry Eventhouse | Eventhouse | 48 CU-h | 10.9% | 24 | 4 CU |
| Gold Enterprise Warehouse | Warehouse | 24 CU-h | 5.4% | 3 | 25 CU |