June 9, 2025

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How to Use Power BI and Fabric Surge Protection

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Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing... more

Surge protection is a Power BI and Fabric admin feature that helps avoid performance throttling that occurs when too many background jobs cause a capacity to exceed 100% of its allowed compute resources.

Properly configuring surge protection requires an understanding of how processes are classified and how available compute resources are calculated:

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