Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces real-time memory consumption metrics for SQL Database in Fabric, helping administrators monitor, analyze, and optimize query resource usage more effectively.

Memory Consumption Metrics in Fabric SQL Database

Overview

SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric now features expanded monitoring capabilities, most notably the addition of real-time memory consumption metrics. This enhancement builds on the earlier release of the performance dashboard, aimed at empowering administrators to efficiently monitor, analyze, and optimize database resources.

What’s New?

Memory Consumption Metrics: Track real-time and historical memory usage at the individual query level.
Comprehensive Dashboard: Access CPU usage, user connections, requests per second, blocked queries, database size, automatic index info, query performance, and now, memory consumption.
Tempdb Spillover Detection: Easily spot when queries exceed available memory and spill over to tempdb, with the dashboard showing the timing and magnitude of these events.
Interactive Query Drill-Down: Select and inspect executed queries, view query text, analyze execution counts over time, and compare CPU/memory consumption across periods.

Visualizing Memory Consumption

The performance dashboard includes a dedicated tab for memory metrics, featuring:

Bar charts that show query memory usage for customizable time intervals (MB/GB).
Trend analysis to quickly identify spikes, bottlenecks, or patterns in resource use.

Query-Level Insights

Administrators can drill down into:

Query text: Instantly copy details for further analysis in Fabric’s editor, VS Code, or SQL Server Management Studio.
Execution counts: View how often queries run and analyze for anomalies or changes over time.
Comparative Analysis: Directly compare resource consumption between time intervals for optimization purposes.

Getting Started

The memory metrics feature is still rolling out and may become available to all customers within a month.
To access, navigate to your SQL Database in Fabric, use the Performance summary button, and open the Performance dashboard.
Further details are in the official documentation.

Feedback

Microsoft Fabric welcomes feedback and suggestions via the Fabric Ideas page, enabling ongoing improvements to monitoring tools and user experience.

By introducing fine-grained memory metrics, Microsoft Fabric empowers database administrators and data engineers to maintain performance, proactively detect inefficiencies, and make data-driven decisions about resource allocation.

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