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Fabric Capacity Metrics app - Ribbon Chart Categories
Reports do not consume CUs. Refreshes and queries consume CUs. Interactive queries are (usually) smoothed over 5 minutes, background activities (which can also include queries!!!) are smoothed over 24 hrs.
That ribbon chart is the last thing you should worry about. Your main focus should be the balance between interactive and background, and the general CU consumption trend on each capacity as of right now. You need to prepare for capacity lockups, and need to know what to do in each of the scenarios that cause the lockup.
thx lbendlin for your reply.
You say "Reports do not cosume CUs". That is exactly why I would like to understand what is included in this category. When filtering to the Report category in the Ribbon Chart I can see Items like this in the table:
There is a CU consumtion mentioned next to Report Items. You are saying those CU are not being deducted from my capacity?
I guess it is a terminology question. What they call "Report" in this chart is really "interactive queries". You will be charged CUs for them, and the smoothing period is usually five minutes - with some exceptions.
again, thanks for the effort!
I probably missed it, but if its really not out there I would appreciate if Microsoft would include this kind of very basic definitions in their "Metrics App" Documentation page - so that we do not have to guess ...