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Memorable MemberIs the capacity metrics app supported? How?
Thanks again for the pointers
I spoke with an engineering manager today after my two-month outage.He wanted to share that in Q1 Microsoft will be deploying the capacity app as part of the core product,
This will be a very welcome change! Sometimes customers feel like we ourselves are responsible for the software’s reliability, since we had “installed it”. In reality we have little control over the behavior of the app.
Another interesting change that is coming is an event hub (kafka?) source that would allow customers to consume our own CU events in a near-realtime way:
Once these two items are delivered, customers should spend a lot less time with the ongoing maintenance of the capacity metrics app. The EM said we may be able to create our own alerting, or even automate the up-scaling and down-scaling of our Fabric capacity, based on capacity usage. This will probably cost a lot less, and give more flexibility than the current implementation of "autoscale" in premium capacities.
As far as the two-month outage is concerned, it seems to be triggered by overages. Also it seems to be region-specific. (it affects North Central US but not East US). Reinstalling the application is NOT a reliable solution - while there is a small chance it may work, the app will stop working again after the next overage.
Super UserHi lbendlin
I totally agree with you. And it is currently not great that is why building a custom solution makes it easier to manage.
Memorable Member
Thanks again for the pointers
I spoke with an engineering manager today after my two-month outage.
He wanted to share that in Q1 Microsoft will be deploying the capacity app as part of the core product,
This will be a very welcome change! Sometimes customers feel like we ourselves are responsible for the software’s reliability, since we had “installed it”. In reality we have little control over the behavior of the app.
Another interesting change that is coming is an event hub (kafka?) source that would allow customers to consume our own CU events in a near-realtime way:
Once these two items are delivered, customers should spend a lot less time with the ongoing maintenance of the capacity metrics app. The EM said we may be able to create our own alerting, or even automate the up-scaling and down-scaling of our Fabric capacity, based on capacity usage. This will probably cost a lot less, and give more flexibility than the current implementation of "autoscale" in premium capacities.
As far as the two-month outage is concerned, it seems to be triggered by overages. Also it seems to be region-specific. (it affects North Central US but not East US). Reinstalling the application is NOT a reliable solution - while there is a small chance it may work, the app will stop working again after the next overage.
- lbendlin
I'll believe it when I see it. This deliverable has slipped a couple times already.
Did the EM say Kafka or Kusto?
- dbeavon3
He said Azure Event Hubs, but it isn't clearly stated in the announcement. I'm guessing the decision is finalized if they have a tentative Q1 delivery date. ... but he also mentioned "Log Analytics" once. I think that was in regards to the status-quo (the implementation under the capacity metrics app today).
... I don't actually use it yet, but heard that Azure Event Hubs has a full Kafka API. Event Hubs is a proprietary platform, but I think Microsoft was forced to implement the Kafka API for compatibility reasons. Nobody wants to have a dependency on a super-proprietary messaging API. Messaging isn't all that interesting, to be honest.
Here is a google result, that supports the information that I had heard about "Event Hubs" in the past:- dbeavon3
lbendlin
He said Real-Time hub, but I interpreted that to be Event Hubs. Probably just Fabric's own marketing term:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/real-time-hub/real-time-hub-overview
At 1:20 in the video (haven't watched it all myself yet):
https://www.youtube.com/live/pSyi7d5NFQM
