Fabric's Resource Governance and Scaling Pitfalls

Performance and Operational Pitfalls When Scaling BI on Fabric Microsoft chose cost predictability over elasticity for the Fabric billing model. While Fabric’s capacity model simplifies setup, there is a high chance of depleting shared compute resources of a capacity, as well as paying for more resources than necessary. Common Pitfalls Fabric capacity scaling is manual, and no auto-scaling is available at present. While this provides absolute control over cost, the whole capacity planning burden is on the admin.