Understanding Fabric Capacities: Everything You Need to Know
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Learn how Fabric capacities work. How workloads consume them, what happens when overloaded, and how to monitor and manage effectively. Includes concepts, demos, and recent capacity features.
Session Details
Working with Fabric, one of the important topics is to know how capacities work, including understand how workloads consume your capacity, what happens if your capacity is overloaded, how to monitor your capacity, and how to manage your capacity.
Both as a capacity admin and as a content developer in Fabric, you should know the ins and outs of Fabric capacities. Without knowing the details about capacities, you may be using your capacity like you use your car - just add more power/gas/diesel when the tank is getting empty without considering the milage you get. Translated into capacities, this is similar to buying more capacity when the capacity is being utilized 100%. For various reasons this is normally not a sustainable way to manage your capacities.
Join this session to get a better understanding of your capacities, and get prepared to better manage your capacities. The concepts of capacities will be explained, you will see demos, and a look at some of the new capacity related features, that has been released recently.
Both as a capacity admin and as a content developer in Fabric, you should know the ins and outs of Fabric capacities. Without knowing the details about capacities, you may be using your capacity like you use your car - just add more power/gas/diesel when the tank is getting empty without considering the milage you get. Translated into capacities, this is similar to buying more capacity when the capacity is being utilized 100%. For various reasons this is normally not a sustainable way to manage your capacities.
Join this session to get a better understanding of your capacities, and get prepared to better manage your capacities. The concepts of capacities will be explained, you will see demos, and a look at some of the new capacity related features, that has been released recently.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Understand how capacities work
Learn how to monitor capacities
Learn how to manage capacities