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PunChili's avatar
PunChili
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1 year ago

Monitor several capacities from Capacity Metrics App

Hi Fabric Community, May you please help me? We monitor several capacities in the Capacity metrics app. I already have one capacity for the customer for development purposes in workspace A, which is...
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PunChili's avatar
PunChili
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1 year ago

Dear all, 

the explanation/solution of our situation is this one: 

The app was created by a user who is the semantic model owner. When this user is capacity admin the capacity can be selected in the slicer and the data is visible for everyone who has access to th eworkspace. Even if someone is not a capacity admin of a specific capaity.

If you are capacity admin and the semantic model owner, the capacities where you are capacity admin are selectable in the slicer plus (in our case) the data is not visible for me because of permissions relating to my credentials. Maybe it is because I am not a fabric admin. Or is there a setting on the tenant which enables/disables to see the data? Any ideas?

 

This is a previous post, where it looked like in order to see data and the capacities, the credentials for the user on the semantic model needs to be capacity admin and fabric admin: Solved: Re: The credentials provided for the MetricsCES so... - Microsoft Fabric Community

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v-hashadapu
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1 year ago

Hi PunChili , thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum.


Yes, tenant settings in the Power BI Admin Portal can control whether users can access Capacity Metrics App (CMA) data.

Ask the Fabric Admin to check Capacity Metrics visibility settings in the tenant.


Check in Tenant B:

  1. Admin Portal → Tenant Settings → Capacity Settings
  2. Look for any setting that restricts access to capacity usage data to only Fabric Admins or Capacity Admins.
  3. The Fabric Admin needs to allow non-admin users to view metrics.

Workspace Access vs. Capacity Metrics Access:

  1. Even if you are Workspace Admin, capacity-level permissions are separate.
  2. If the CMA is restricted to only Capacity Admins, you might not see full data.
  3. The Fabric Admin can adjust these permissions.

Capacity Admin vs. Fabric Admin Visibility

  1. If the CMA was installed by a Capacity Admin, only capacities they manage are visible.
  2. If the tenant setting restricts capacity insights, you may need to be a Fabric Admin to see certain data.

 

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Thank you.