Comparison between Azure Monitor and related Fabric features

[pmscorca]

Hi,

I'd like to know if it exist any feature comparisons between Azure Monitor and the related Fabric features.

Many thanks

[suparnababu8]

Hi @pmscorca 

Great Question!

There is no direct compariison between azure monitor and Microsoft Fabric features. Azure moniter is basically used fro observabilty, monitor and diagnoise across variours azure services. If you come to Fabric, it's furely data unified solutins platform.

If you want to compare any extsi feature bewteen Azure and Fabric, you may compare Azure Data Factory (ADF) with Fabric Data Factory (FDF). read more about thsi comparison Azure Vs. Fabric: The Ultimate Data Factory Showdown 

Also you can compare Azure Realtime analytics with Fabric Realtime intelligence. Read more about compariosn here Differences between Real-Time Intelligence and comparable Azure solutions - Microsoft Fabric | Micro...

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[burakkaragoz · Accepted solution]

Hi @pmscorca ,

There isn’t an official one-to-one comparison table published by Microsoft (yet), but here’s a quick breakdown based on current capabilities:

Azure Monitor

• Designed for infrastructure and app monitoring
• Deep integration with Azure services (VMs, AKS, App Services, etc.)
• Uses Log Analytics and Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Alerting, dashboards, and diagnostics built-in

Fabric Monitoring (via Capacity Metrics & Admin Portal)

• Focused on Power BI / Fabric workloads (semantic models, dataflows, pipelines)
• Tracks CU usage, refresh failures, workspace activity
• Uses prebuilt visuals and reports (no KQL)
• Limited to Fabric-specific telemetry

If you're looking to monitor Fabric like you do with Azure Monitor, you might consider exporting Fabric logs to Log Analytics (via diagnostic settings) and then use Azure Monitor on top of that.

Let me know if you want a sample setup or links to docs for that integration.

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