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AnHell
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8 months ago
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Capacity consumed by users downloading data

Hello,   I have some users who, for certain offline meetings, download the information they will need from certain reports. This data download causes the fabric capacity to exceed 100%. Is there ...
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  • tayloramy's avatar
    tayloramy
    8 months ago

    Hi AnHell, 

     

    There's no settings like this specifcially for downloading information, but you can enable Surge Protection to stop it from completly killing the capacity. 


    Surge protection - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

     

    I've heard rumors about surge protection on a per workspace basis being planned (specifically in a keynote by Epic systems at their annual conference, I think they leaked secret info 😛 ) but nothing official from the Microsoft side yet. 

     

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v-achippa
Community Support
8 months ago

Hi AnHell,

 

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

 

Thank you lbendlin and tayloramy for the prompt response. 

 

Thanks for the response. Yes surge protection only limits background jobs, and user-initiated downloads or exports are treated as interactive operations, so they can still consume capacity.

  • Currently there is no setting to directly limit capacity usage for exports. The only control is to restrict who is allowed to export data, to prevent large downloads from impacting capacity.

Surge protection is still helpful to protect the capacity from background load, but it will not stop interactive downloads. Hopefully we will see more granular controls in the future, but this is the current behaviour.

 

Thanks and regards,

Anjan Kumar Chippa

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v-achippa
Community Support
8 months ago

Hi AnHell,

 

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution I have provided for the issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance.

 

Thanks and regards,

Anjan Kumar Chippa