Capacity Monitoring

Dashboard creators often control permissions, leading to unchecked access that rapidly expands across the company. The result? A sprawling BI environment with little oversight makes access control and auditing nearly impossible.

Adopting Microsoft Fabric? Managing BI capacity just got more complex. Fabric unifies data and analytics tools, creating new opportunities—and challenges—for BI admins seeking deeper insights into compute usage across Power BI, Synapse, Azure Data Factory, and more.

What's Changing?

Datalogz seamlessly integrates with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Spotfire, leveraging activity logs and API endpoints to track data access and usage. Our Control Tower provides a complete historical record, eliminating manual log failures and ensuring continuous visibility into user actions. Instantly assess dashboard access, identify governance gaps, and maintain BI compliance with confidence.

Unified Capacity Management: Fabric consolidates all data and analytics tools under one platform, centralizing tenant and capacity administration.

New Pricing Model: Power BI capacity now follows Fabric’s F-SKU model (measured in Capacity Units (CUs)) instead of the old P-SKU model (v-cores).

Monitoring Changes: The Fabric Capacity Metrics App replaces the Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics App, tracking capacity usage across all Fabric services.

Key Metrics: Tracks interactive (user-driven) and background (scheduled) operations to identify compute-heavy tasks.

Performance Management: Introduces throttling, smoothing, and bursting to manage spikes in compute demand and prevent performance degradation.

Challenges:

The Fabric Capacity Metrics App lacks historical data, cross-capacity comparisons, and granular event tracking, making root cause analysis harder.

Why It’s Important

Helps BI admins prevent overages, optimize costs, balance workloads, and ensure seamless Power BI performance across an enterprise.

How Datalogz Helps with Capacity Monitoring

Provides historical data retention and advanced analytics for deeper trend analysis.

Offers a dashboard with all premium capacities, allowing side-by-side comparisons and drilldowns into specific issues.

Identifies unnecessary compute usage from reports that consume excess resources

Tracks capacity usage at specific timestamps to pinpoint the root cause of spikes.

Breaks down costs by day, capacity, and workspace for better budgeting.

Sends real-time notifications and actionable insights to prevent performance issues.

Capacity Monitoring

What's Changing?

Why It’s Important

How Datalogz Helps with Capacity Monitoring

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