Presentation of the solution accelerator for Fabric platform to monitor cost.

The solution aims to facilitate the understanding and monitoring of the Microsoft Fabric Cost. Customers may not always clearly distinguish between costs that are included or excluded within the Data Platform, the handling of reservations (particularly those not rationalized within a defined scope), or their capacity usage. They may also need guidance on strategies for optimizing resources and implementing effective FinOps practices, including chargeback and show back to stakeholders.

FCA has the goal to provide a holistic view specified on Microsoft Fabric aspects and particularities (joining Financial and Operational forces) on top of the various information, which can be extracted from Azure Cost Management, personal enriched source of information, … allowing its users to analyze at a very high level, but also to deep dive into specific usage, reservations and particularity of the platform for a more finer data analysis.

FCA is fully developed utilizing Fabric capabilities, with Pipelines and Notebooks serving as key tools for data extraction and transformation. Data is maintained both in its raw format and as Delta Parquet, allowing users to access it directly through Power BI Direct Lake. FCA includes standard reports that provide an overview of data and allow users to customize or create their own reports using the data model. Fabric's open platform enables integration with external data sources for further analysis as needed.

Fabric Cost Analysis (short: FCA) is a solution to enable holistic monitoring of Microsoft Fabric Cost with the help of Microsoft Fabric.