FCA - Fabric Cost Analysis for FinOps

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

This week we have been looking at the fabric-toolbox ecosystem. It is full of fantastic tools for folk that use Microsoft Fabric, and I have been doing a deep dive into the monitoring solutions in particular.

Yesterday we covered FUAM — the operational monitoring solution.

Today we look at another monitoring tool in the collection: FCA, the Fabric Cost Analysis solution.

Where FUAM answers “how is my Fabric capacity being used?”, FCA answers “what is it costing us, and who is spending what?”

FUAM - Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Yesterday I introduced fabric-toolbox — Microsoft’s community-driven repository of Fabric accelerators. Today we look at one of its flagship solutions: FUAM, the Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring solution.

When you are responsible for a Microsoft Fabric tenant, it will not be very long before you are facing many questions.

Questions like:

How is my capacity being used?
Which workspaces are consuming the most resources?
What are my users actually doing?
When are my peak usage times?

You can scabble around in the Admin portal and try to piece together the answers, but it is a bit like trying to navigate a city with a paper map — you can get there eventually, but it is slow and painful, and you will probably miss some things along the way.

Governance on Rob Sewell (aka SQL DBA With A Beard)

FCA - Fabric Cost Analysis for FinOps

Introduction

FUAM - Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring

Introduction