Microsoft Fabric unifies analytics yet many teams still lack clear, actionable cost visibility.

In this session, you learn how to apply FinOps in Fabric so finance, engineering, and BI leaders can align on spend, performance, and accountability without slowing delivery.

We’ll demystify capacity units, meters, reservations, and workload behaviors, then show how to turn raw signals into decisions using Fabric Cost Analysis (FCA) a free, open‑source solution that normalizes and visualizes Fabric usage and cost data for showback/chargeback, anomaly detection, and governance.

You’ll see live FCA dashboards and leave with a practical deployment path: where to source data, how to structure it, and how to build cost KPIs your stakeholders trust. Expect real customer patterns, common pitfalls, and concrete guardrails that help you scale Fabric confidently.

Who should attend: Data/Analytics Leaders, Capacity Admins, FinOps Practitioners, Architects, BI Platform Owners.

Level Intermediate (familiarity with Fabric capacities and Azure Cost Management recommended).

Key outcomes
- Interpret Fabric capacity signals and meters to explain spend internally.
- Deploy FCA and connect the right data sources for reliable showback/chargeback.
- Detect cost anomalies and govern workloads with practical guardrails.
- Operationalize FinOps rituals (dashboards, reviews, ownership) that stick.

Demo: FCA end‑to‑end: data flow, model, dashboards, and decision playbook.