From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Fabric Capacity Like a Pro

Proposed session for SQLBits 2026

TL; DR

Learn how to make sense of the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App and use it to monitor, analyze, and optimize your environment. This session shows you how to spot capacity issues early, understand usage patterns, and keep workloads running efficiently giving administrators, data engineers, and architects the insight needed to maintain a high-performing Fabric environment.

Session Details

Your Fabric workloads are slowing down, refreshes are taking longer, and capacity spikes appear without warning, but the Metrics App doesn’t always make the cause obvious. This is exactly why you need to know how to read through Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App becomes essential. When used effectively, it reveals what’s driving capacity pressure and helps you prevent issues before they impact users.

This session will show you how to turn the Metrics App into a clear, actionable performance guide.

In this session, you will learn how to:
1. Monitor capacity in real time
2. Analyze usage trends
3. Identify inefficiencies
4. Optimize workloads for predictable performance
5. Interpret key views and patterns
Apply practical strategies to keep your environment healthy

This session is ideal for Fabric administrators, workspace owners, data engineers, and architects who need stronger visibility into capacity behavior and want to avoid performance surprises. Attendees will gain the insight and confidence to improve workload efficiency and keep their Fabric environment performing at its best.

3 things you'll get out of this session

1. Learn to interpret key metrics and trends for clear capacity insights. 2. Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies before they affect performance. 3. Apply practical strategies to optimize resources and keep workloads running reliably.

Deepthi Goguri's other proposed sessions for 2026

EmpowerHER Tech: How Allies Drive Real Change - 2026

From Risk to Resilience: Building a Secure Azure SQL Environment - 2026

Performance Tuning: How Query Store Saves Your Server (and Your Sleep) - 2026

The First Step: Empowering New Tech Speakers - 2026

When Good Queries Go Bad: Fixing Performance with Query Store - 2026

Deepthi Goguri's previous sessions

A to Z Azure SQL Security Concepts

Planning to move your databases to the cloud but seriously doubt if your data is 100% secure? No matter if you are on-prem or in the cloud, making sure your data is protected in every angle possible is the most crucial and important step in building a secure data tier of an application. Let's dedicate this session to knowing the different multi-layer defense-in-depth security techniques and strategies available to armor your Azure SQL database. let's dive deep into each of these layers starting with the network security, Azure role-based access control (RBAC), data security at the row level, auditing, advanced threat protection, different layers of encryption, monitoring, and more. By the end of this session, you will have the knowledge to make the right security decisions for your environments and implement these techniques in securing your data.

Can an Introvert become an International Speaker? If so, How?

Are you a data professional and would like to share your learnings with others but are scared to speak in public? Are you an Introvert and are comfortable in your own space but also wanted to make an impact in this world? Is something inside you pulling you back from taking the action on your dream? Meet the two data platform speakers who started their speaking journey from the same exact situation but now sharing their learnings across the world helping other data professionals in their journey. How did they actually begin, what challenges did they go through and who helped them along the way? As they speak about their incredible journey, they will share some key details in becoming a speaker, the advantages, steps to improve data skills and develop careers along the way so the audience can carry the knowledge as they take their first steps in becoming one.

Different dimensions of monitoring and tuning performance for Azure SQL

Azure SQL performance capabilities, how to configure and maintain your Azure SQL for higher performance. We will explore various monitoring tools and pick few scenarios for deeper troubleshooting. In this demo centric session, we will tune our database and find an optimal ground to manage cost. We will generate Power BI powered database score card for trend analysis.

Troubleshoot and Triage Like a Pro

Let us walk you through our steps to triage and troubleshoot issues as they come in to make sure things get fixed in the right order at the right time and we all stay sane.