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Capacity & CU

How capacity charges, smooths and throttles — and how you prove it with data.

What throttling is in Microsoft Fabric · coming soon Start here 11 min
How to analyze Capacity Metrics · coming soon 9 min
Capacity Metrics explained · coming soon 14 min
How to cut CU consumption · coming soon 12 min
How to read Memory High · coming soon 8 min
F2 vs F4 vs F8 · coming soon 11 min

Semantic Models

Modeling, refresh and the endpoint that opens everything.

XMLA endpoint: what it unlocks and what it breaks · coming soon 9 min
Import, Direct Lake or DirectQuery · coming soon 13 min
How to monitor refresh end to end · coming soon 10 min
Incremental refresh without the headache · coming soon 15 min

Data Factory & Power BI Embed

Ingestion that eats CU and report delivery outside your company.

Dataflows Gen2: staging is the silent villain · coming soon 10 min
Pipeline vs Notebook vs Dataflow: which costs least · coming soon 12 min
Embed for your customers: licensing without surprises · coming soon 14 min
Reference table

Throttling thresholds by future consumption

Future consumptionStagePractical effect
< 10 minBurstingNothing — capacity absorbs the spike
10 – 60 minInteractive Delay+20 s per interactive request
60 min – 24 hInteractive RejectionReports stop; refresh keeps going
> 24 hBackground RejectionEverything rejected, refresh included
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