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Auto pause/resume of Fabric Capacity

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Koen Verbeeck on 17 Jun 2024 14:23:13

It would be really nice if a Fabric capacity can auto-pause & auto-resume.

Auto-pause: if there's no activity for a specified time interval, the capacity shuts down (dropping any caches, this is expected behavior).

Auto-resume: if there's some request (a SQL/KQL query, a notebook cell that starts, a directlake request from Power BI, ...), the capacity automatically resumes AND serves the request without throwing an error.

Some latency can be expected because the capacity needs to start obviously, and it's a cold start so there's no caching.


Snowflake has this capability for their warehouses (similar to Fabric compute) for almost a decade now. Same with Databricks.

Ope Aladekomo (administrator)

Thank you for your suggestion. Currently we don’t have plans to deliver auto pause / auto resume but we will support metrics driven automation to start / restart capacities using REST APIs.

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Prakash Rajendran on 18 Jun 2024 08:58:06

RE: Auto pause/resume of Fabric Capacity

I completely agree with this suggestion. Auto-pause and auto-resume functionalities for Fabric capacity would be incredibly useful. I'm rooting for this feature as my project also needs it.