A reader asked the right question after our last post on three-layer pipeline monitoring: what does it cost in CUs? Microsoft has not published authoritative figures, and the Capacity Metrics App will not separate monitoring overhead from everything else your Eventhouse is doing. The only way to get a real number is to measure. Here…
Out of the box, Microsoft Fabric pipelines fail in ways that are easy to miss. After a couple of years shipping Fabric platforms into production, we now deploy the same three-layer monitoring pattern on every engagement: collect with Workspace Monitoring, diagnose with saved KQL queries, notify with tiered Data Activator triggers.
Five days in Atlanta at FabCon + SQLCon 2026. The most useful signal at a Microsoft conference is not the keynote — it is the hallway, the session Q and A, and the conversations with the engineers who built the thing you are deploying on Monday morning. Here is what I brought home: three things…
Hard to Believe It’s December Already: My Year of Learning Microsoft Fabric As the year winds down, I find myself reflecting on what a journey it’s been. Honestly, it’s hard to believe we’re already stepping into December! This year, for me, was all about diving deep into Microsoft Fabric—really getting to know how it works…
To wrap up this series, here’s a compilation of the most frequently asked questions I’ve received about fabric licenses, as well as those I’ve come across in posts and videos that have helped me understand it better. I hope they are helpful to you too! 1. Is Microsoft Fabric included with Power BI Premium? Yes,…
Since there is currently no exact formula for calculating the capacity size you will need, it is recommended that you start with the Fabric trial (which allows to test Fabric with 64 CUs performance) or choose a pay-as-you-go Fabric capacity size for testing and then, use the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app, which allows users…
Microsoft Fabric license types Microsoft Fabric provides a diverse range of licensing options, categorized primarily into capacity-based and individual user licenses. 1. Capacity Licenses -F SKUs (Dedicated capacity) – Known as Premium licenses in Power BI. – They provide the infrastructure for Microsoft Fabric. Without a capacity license, users can’t work in Fabric. – Capacity…
Microsoft Fabric is a complete data analytics SaaS solution that offers a wide range of analytics workloads, including Data Integration, Warehousing, Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Real-time Analytics. Essentially, it provides all the tools and resources you need for comprehensive data analytics projects. As organizations consider implementing Microsoft Fabric, understanding its licensing and cost…
In this post I’ll show you several tools that can help you analyze the performance of your Power BI solutions at every step of the way, some of them are built-in features and others are free and open source. In this checklist you will find the tools you can use at every step of the…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663800743577{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] What a great first day of the Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2022. A wonderful day full of great speakers! Here’s a brief summary of some of the sessions I attended: What are Power BI Metrics? – By Treb Gatte In this session Treb talked about the Power BI metrics and how…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664321719850{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Last week was the first Microsoft Power Platform conference with over 150 interesting sessions and 18 workshops, I had the pleasure of meeting new people who share my passion for Power BI, and I met some of the heroes I’ve been following and learning a lot from like Patrick, Adam and Miri…
Is your data model turning into an unfriendly monster full of unnecessary columns and measures with long refresh time? Or after cleaning up your data model, do you find that connected reports break so you manually go through each one to find the cause? In this post I will introduce you to the first version…