Monitoring Spark session and delete option for workspace artefacts

[AntoineW]

Hello Fabric community, 

I have some questions for you : 
Question 1 – Spark capacity usage

“How can we check which Spark compute sessions are currently active in a Fabric capacity (like an ‘active Spark pool’)? The goal is to monitor them to avoid throttling and, if possible, stop/disable some sessions when needed.”

Question 2 – Workspace cleanup

“It would be very user-friendly to have a feature that allows deleting multiple artifacts at once in a Fabric workspace (instead of one by one). Is this on the roadmap or planned?”

Thanks in advance,

Antoine

[rohit1991 · Accepted solution]

Hi @AntoineW 

Q1 : See/stop active Spark sessions (to avoid throttling)

Go to Monitor >> Apache Spark applications, set filter to In progress, and use the Cancel icon to stop any running app (notebooks, Spark jobs, etc.).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/browse-spark-applications-monitoring-hub 

From a notebook, use Stop session (toolbar) to end the current Spark session; you can also Cancel all to stop running/queued cells.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/author-execute-notebook 

For capacity perspective (who/what is consuming CUs), open the Fabric Capacity Metrics app >> Compute/Spark consumption pages. This shows usage by item over time.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/metrics-app-compute-page 

Tip: default interactive session timeout is ~20 mins; you can change this in workspace settings.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/workspace-admin-settings 

Q2 : Delete multiple artifacts in a workspace

UI today: no multi-select bulk delete; items are deleted one-by-one. Folder support has been mentioned on the roadmap, which would enable folder-level deletes when available.
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-platform/Delete-multiple-objects-from-workspace-at-... 

Workarounds now: script it with the Fabric REST API >> Delete Item (loop through the items you want), or if appropriate, delete the workspace (removes everything).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/fabric/core/items/delete-item?tabs=HTTP