Guide to getting the most out of the Microsoft Fabric Monitoring Center

We find ourselves in an increasingly data-driven business environment and a time when the ability to monitor, diagnose, and optimize every component of the analytics ecosystem is more than a competitive advantage; it is a necessity.

Microsoft Fabric, the unified analytics and data platform in the cloud, not only integrates powerful processing and visualization tools but also incorporates a robust monitoring solution that redefines the way organizations manage their data performance and governance. Read on, as we explore how this functionality can be frictionlessly integrated into existing workflows, what tangible benefits it brings, and why now is the ideal time to integrate it into your corporate data strategy.

Workspace monitoring is a Microsoft Fabric database that collects and organizes logs and metrics from various Fabric elements in the workspace. It allows users to access and analyze logs and metrics related to Fabric elements.

Therefore, its main function is to allow users to query the database, with the objective of obtaining information about the usage and performance of their workspace.

Its main elements are:

The Microsoft Fabric monitoring center allows users to monitor platform activities from a central location.

Any Fabric user can use the monitoring center, but it only displays the activities of items that you have permission to view.

This monitoring center displays the activities of the following elements:

• Data pipelines
• Data flows
• Datamarts
• Datalake warehouses
• Notebooks
• Semantic models
• Spark job definitions

The administrator monitoring workspace is a specialized environment designed for Fabric administrators to monitor and manage workloads, usage, and governance within their tenant. With the resources available in the workspace, administrators can perform tasks such as security audits, performance monitoring, capacity management, and more.

The administrator monitoring workspace is automatically installed the first time an administrator accesses it, and the workspace reports appear blank until the first data refresh. This refresh begins approximately five minutes after the workspace installation and is usually completed within minutes.

To activate the installation of the administrator monitoring workspace, follow these steps:

• Log in to Fabric as an administrator.
• From the navigation menu, select “Workspace”.
• Select “Administrator Oversight”.

Once configured, administrators can share all workspace reports with non-administrators via the workspace role. And they can also share individual reports or semantic models with non-administrator users via links or direct access.

By default, the administrator monitoring workspace is licensed Pro. To take advantage of capacity benefits, such as unlimited content sharing, follow these steps:

• Go to the administration portal.
• Then go to the “Workspaces” page in the administration portal.
• Using the filter in the “Name” column, search for “Administrator supervision” and select the ‘Actions’ button, and then “Reassign workspace.
• Select the desired license mode and click “Save”.

In a rapidly changing business environment, the ability to analyze data instantly has become a necessity, and thanks to it, companies gain the ability to monitor events in real time.

Thanks to that, you will be able to react quickly to changes and solve potential problems. And at Plain Concepts, we help you get the most out of it.

We offer you a Microsoft Fabric Adoption Framework with which we will evaluate the technological and business solutions, we will make a clear roadmap for the data strategy, we visualize the use cases that will make the difference in your company, we take into account the sizing of equipment, time and costs, we study the compatibility with existing data platforms and we migrate Power BI, Synapse and Datawarehouse solutions to Fabric.