Fabric Cost Analysis - Shine a light on your platform costs

[RomainCasteres]

🚀Bringing Clarity to Microsoft Fabric Spend

The solution aims to facilitate the understanding and monitoring of the Microsoft Fabric Cost. Customers may not always clearly distinguish between costs that are included or excluded within the Data Platform, the handling of reservations (particularly those not rationalized within a defined scope), or their capacity usage. They may also need guidance on strategies for optimizing resources and implementing effective FinOps practices, including chargeback and show back to stakeholders. This free solution was developed in France by several passionate CSA experts in FinOps and Data: Cedric Dupui, Manel Omani, Antoine Richet, and led by Romain Casteres inspired by his Blog article FinOps for Microsoft Fabric.

Fabric Cost Analysis (short: FCA) is a solution to enable holistic monitoring of Microsoft Fabric Cost with the help of Microsoft Fabric.

➡️ https://aka.ms/FabricCostAnalysis

FCA has the goal to provide a holistic view specified on Microsoft Fabric aspects and particularities (joining Financial and Operational forces) on top of the various information, which can be extracted from Azure Cost Management, personal enriched source of information, … allowing its users to analyze at a very high level, but also to deep dive into specific usage, Azure quotas, reservations and particularity of the platform for a more finer data analysis.

🎬Demo presentation available on YouTube : Fabric Cost Analysis

🏗️ Architecture

FCA is fully developed utilizing Fabric capabilities, with Pipelines and Notebooks serving as key tools for data extraction and transformation. Data is maintained both in its raw format and as Delta Parquet, allowing users to access it directly through Power BI Direct Lake. FCA includes standard reports that provide an overview of data and allow users to customize or create their own reports using the data model. Fabric's open platform enables integration with external data sources for further analysis as needed. The solution demonstrates the platform's power and highlights the use of Fabric Data Agent to access insights in natural language.

🚨Support

The FCA solution accelerator template is not an official Microsoft service.

⚠️Caution: The FCA solution accelerator is not an official Microsoft product! It is a solution accelerator, which can help you implement a cost monitoring solution within and for Fabric. Consequently, there is no official support provided, and there remains a potential risk of failures.

This solution is created by the community, for the community. We welcome your feedback please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

[Olayemi_Awofe]

This is great, definitely going to try it out