Notebook Status - Stopped (Session Timed Out)

Hi Mirdula 😊

Thank you for your detailed feedback.

What you're experiencing is quite common in Spark-based environments like Microsoft Fabric. Here's a quick clarification that may help:

When a notebook completes all cells successfully, but the Spark session doesn't close explicitly, the Fabric platform sometimes registers the session as "Stopped" instead of "Success" — even though no error occurred.

What you can try:

To ensure the session ends gracefully, you can manually stop the Spark session at the end of your notebook using:

spark.stop()

This helps Fabric detect that the notebook has completed intentionally, not due to timeout or inactivity.

Also, adding a cell like this at the end of your notebook might help signal a successful end:

print("Notebook completed successfully.")

While this doesn't guarantee a “Success” label in every case (as it depends on backend handling), it improves the chances — and keeps your logs cleaner.

Let me know if that helps!
And if the previous suggestion worked partially, feel free to mark it as solution and give a Kudo if it helped. 😄