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Pause and resume your capacity

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Microsoft Fabric lets you pause and resume your capacity. When your capacity isn't operational, you can pause it to enable cost savings for your organization. Later, when you want to resume work on your capacity, you can reactivate it.

When you pause your capacity, the remaining cumulative overages and smoothed operations on your capacity are summed, and added to your Azure bill. You can monitor a paused capacity using the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app.

If your capacity is being throttled, pausing it stops the throttling and returns your capacity to a healthy state immediately. This behavior enables you to pause your capacity as a self-service mechanism that ends throttling.

Important

Pausing a capacity can prevent Microsoft Fabric content from being available. Before you pause your capacity, make sure the capacity is not being used.

Prerequisites

To pause your capacity, you need:

Pause your capacity

To pause your capacity:

  1. Sign into the Azure portal.

  2. Select the Microsoft Fabric service to see your capacities. You can search for Microsoft Fabric in the search menu.

  3. Select the capacity you want to pause.

  4. Select Pause.

  5. Select Yes to confirm you want to pause the capacity.

Resume your capacity

Restart usage by resuming your capacity. Resuming your capacity also resumes billing. Content assigned to this capacity becomes available once the capacity is resumed.

  1. Sign into the Azure portal.

  2. Select the Microsoft Fabric service to see your capacities. You can search for Microsoft Fabric in the search menu.

  3. Select the capacity you want to resume.

  4. Select Resume.

  5. Select Yes to confirm you want to resume the capacity.

Schedule your operation

With Azure runbook you can schedule your pause and resume operations.

  1. Import a module from the module gallery.

  2. In the runbook gallery, search for Fabric.

  3. Select the notebook you want to schedule. The scheduling parameters are described in the description of the runbook.

Use APIs

You can use these Fabric REST APIs to pause and resume your capacity:

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