Pillar C
Fabric Capacity Alerts That Actually Fire: Real-Time Hub Over Metrics App
Fabric's Capacity Metrics app has no built-in alerts. One Activator rule on Real-Time hub capacity events fires the moment throttling starts.
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#throttling
7 articles
Pillar B
The Fabric Pause-and-Resume Trap: How Pausing Bills You
Pausing a Fabric capacity carrying smoothed debt settles the overage immediately at PAYG rates. On reserved, you pay twice. Mechanism and math.
Pillar B
Smoothing, Bursting & Carry-Forward Debt: The Physics of Fabric Compute
How Fabric's 30-second timepoints, 10-minute interactive window, and 24-hour background smoothing create CU debt and trigger the staged throttle cascade.
Pillar C
Fabric Throttling Explained: Why One Query Slows Your Whole Tenant
Fabric throttling is staged across future-capacity time windows, not utilization percentages. One workload's debt blocks every user on the shared capacity.
Pillar C
Real-Time Throttling Triage When the Metrics App Can't Keep Up
The Capacity Metrics app lags 10–15 min — live triage runbook for an active throttle: what to read, in what order, and why pausing is a costly trap.
Pillar C
Microsoft Fabric Capacity Monitoring: The Complete Guide
Monitor Fabric capacity with the free Capacity Metrics app — 14-day compute, 30-day storage, and the gaps. The native-vs-gap matrix and what fills it.
Pillar C
Predicting Fabric Throttling Before It Happens
Track carry-forward debt slope to forecast Fabric throttle onset before users hit errors — a debt-trajectory method with a worked F32 example.