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Workspace Identity for Eventstream Sources: Retire the Shared Access Key
Eventstream can now read Azure Event Hubs with workspace identity. How to move off SAS keys, the RBAC each side needs, and when a service principal still wins.
Real-Time Intelligence
16 articles
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Real-Time Dashboards in Git: Reviewable Changes and a Way Back
Put Fabric Real-Time Dashboards under Git so tile and query changes are reviewed, validated before Update from Git, and reverted cleanly when they break.
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Pricing a Threshold: Tying Fabric Activator Rules to Business Impact
Set Fabric Activator and KQL alert thresholds from the cost of a miss versus the cost of acting, then tier actions by the value at risk, not the raw reading.
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Store Changes, Not Readings: Shaping Noisy Streams in an Eventhouse
Use update policies, materialized views and a KQL state-change function in a Fabric Eventhouse to strip duplicates, chatter and flapping before anyone queries.
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Noise or a Real Change? Three KQL Checks Before Anyone Gets Paged
Use KQL baselines, week-over-week comparison and diffpatterns in an Eventhouse to tell a meaningful operational change from ordinary noise, and to explain it.
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Alerts People Don't Mute: Designing Activator Rules in Fabric
How to design Fabric Activator and KQL queryset alerts that fire on transitions, carry an owner and a next step, and stop teams muting the channel.
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Why Real-Time Dashboards Rot After Week One, and How to Stop It
Rules for Fabric Real-Time Dashboards that stay trusted: tiles with owners, visible data freshness, refresh costs you can afford, and thresholds in tables.
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Equipment Monitoring on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, End to End
One sensor-monitoring design on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence: where to filter, enrich, aggregate and alert, and what Eventhouse retention costs you.
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Ignite 2025 Day 2: Microsoft Fabric Innovations and Real-Time Intelligence
These Fabric updates demonstrate Microsoft's commitment to building a truly unified data platform that handles real-time and batch workloads while…
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Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence: Streaming Analytics at Scale
Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence workload has matured significantly since GA. Today I'm exploring how to build streaming analytics pipelines that…
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Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence: Patterns for Streaming Analytics
Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence workload has matured significantly since GA. We've implemented several production streaming scenarios, and I want…
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Where Streaming Logic Belongs in Fabric: Eventstream, KQL or Spark
A decision guide for placing filters, enrichment, aggregation and alerts across Eventstream, Eventhouse and Spark in Fabric Real-Time Intelligence.
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Planning Fabric Work for 2025: What's GA, Preview, and Worth Waiting On
A January 2025 status check on Microsoft Fabric after Ignite 2024: which features are GA, which are preview, and how to sequence this year's work.
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Real-Time Dashboards in Microsoft Fabric
Real-time dashboards bring your streaming data to life. Today I'm exploring how to build effective real-time visualizations in Fabric.
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KQL Querysets in Microsoft Fabric
KQL Querysets are the analysis layer of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric. Today I'm exploring how to write effective KQL for real-time analytics.
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Microsoft Fabric June 2024 Updates: Real-Time Intelligence GA
Real-Time Intelligence is Fabric's answer to streaming analytics, combining the power of Azure Data Explorer with the unified Fabric experience.