22-25 April 2026

From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Fabric Capacity Like a Pro

Proposed session for SQLBits 2026

TL; DR

Learn how to make sense of the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App and use it to monitor, analyze, and optimize your environment. This session shows you how to spot capacity issues early, understand usage patterns, and keep workloads running efficiently giving administrators, data engineers, and architects the insight needed to maintain a high-performing Fabric environment.

Session Details

Your Fabric workloads are slowing down, refreshes are taking longer, and capacity spikes appear without warning, but the Metrics App doesn’t always make the cause obvious. This is exactly why you need to know how to read through Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App becomes essential. When used effectively, it reveals what’s driving capacity pressure and helps you prevent issues before they impact users.

This session will show you how to turn the Metrics App into a clear, actionable performance guide.

In this session, you will learn how to:
1. Monitor capacity in real time
2. Analyze usage trends
3. Identify inefficiencies
4. Optimize workloads for predictable performance
5. Interpret key views and patterns
Apply practical strategies to keep your environment healthy

This session is ideal for Fabric administrators, workspace owners, data engineers, and architects who need stronger visibility into capacity behavior and want to avoid performance surprises. Attendees will gain the insight and confidence to improve workload efficiency and keep their Fabric environment performing at its best.

3 things you'll get out of this session

1. Learn to interpret key metrics and trends for clear capacity insights. 2. Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies before they affect performance. 3. Apply practical strategies to optimize resources and keep workloads running reliably.