One tenant-wide view of your Microsoft Fabric estate: usage, cost, security, AI adoption and performance. You can only manage what you can see. Deployed inside your tenant in two weeks by Australia’s #1 Microsoft Data & AI partner.
01 · The Problem
Microsoft now ships useful native tools: the Admin Monitoring workspace, the Capacity Metrics app, the Chargeback app, OneLake catalog governance. Each answers part of the question. None of them joins usage, cost, security and AI adoption into one decision-ready picture. That gap is where budgets leak and audits get hard.
Workspaces, semantic models, lakehouses, warehouses and pipelines multiply faster than anyone can track. Many sit unused, duplicated, or quietly draining capacity.
Copilot, data agents and AI features consume capacity units like any workload. Most organisations discover the cost on the invoice, not before it.
Licence sprawl, idle capacities, throttling events and background job bloat are the most overlooked lines in a Fabric bill. Fixing them requires evidence.
Permissions, sensitivity label coverage, export logs and external sharing live across several portals. Compiling a defensible posture by hand is a full-time job.
02 · The Solution
Fabric Insights deploys directly inside your tenant as a curated set of semantic models and Power BI reports, built on the Fabric admin APIs, audit logs and capacity telemetry you already pay for. No third-party SaaS. No data leaves your environment. Historical retention beyond the native 14 to 30 day windows, so trends and audits have real depth.
A tenant-wide inventory of every Fabric item: workspaces, semantic models, reports, lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, dataflows, pipelines and eventstreams.
Reclaim the capacity, licences and budget you are already paying for by surfacing what’s underused, oversized or about to throttle.
Continuous, evidence-based visibility into who can access what, and what they’re doing with it. Compliance becomes a report, not a project.
Track Copilot and AI agent consumption alongside refresh, pipeline and query performance. Spot problems before the business or the bill does.
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03 · Built for the AI era of Fabric
Copilot, data agents and AI-powered analytics are now core Fabric workloads. They consume capacity, touch sensitive data and multiply faster than manual governance can follow. Fabric Insights gives you the visibility layer that makes confident AI adoption possible.
Copilot interactions and data agent runs consume capacity units. Fabric Insights attributes that consumption to users, teams and use cases so AI spend is a managed line item, not a surprise.
AI is only as safe as the permissions and labels underneath it. Fabric Insights surfaces sensitivity label gaps, overshared workspaces and unlabelled items before a Copilot query finds them first.
Adoption reporting shows which teams are using AI features, how usage is trending and where enablement should focus next. Evidence for the investment case, straight from your own telemetry.
04 · Fabric Insights vs native tooling
Microsoft’s Admin Monitoring workspace, Capacity Metrics app, Chargeback app and OneLake catalog are genuinely useful, and Fabric Insights uses the same underlying APIs and telemetry. The difference is unification, history, and fit to your organisation.
| Capability | Native Fabric tools | Fabric Insights |
|---|---|---|
| Single unified view across usage, cost, security and AI | Split across 4+ separate apps and portals | ✓ One semantic model, one report suite |
| Historical retention | Typically 14 to 30 days per tool | ✓ Long-range history you own, for trends and audits |
| Chargeback and showback | Native Chargeback app, fixed dimensions | ✓ Mapped to your cost centres, projects and domains |
| Copilot and AI agent cost attribution | Raw consumption visible, limited attribution | ✓ By user, team, workspace and use case |
| Licence utilisation and rationalisation | Manual cross-referencing across admin centres | ✓ Inactive user and licence identification built in |
| Governance evidence packs | Assembled by hand at audit time | ✓ Audit-ready reporting on demand |
| Tailored to your operating model | Generic, one-size-fits-all views | ✓ Configured to your domains, teams and policies |
| Expert deployment and 90-day action plan | Self-serve | ✓ Delivered and enabled by Agile Insights in 2 weeks |
Native tools remain part of the picture and Fabric Insights complements them. Where Microsoft ships a new native capability, we integrate it rather than duplicating it, so your investment keeps compounding as the platform evolves.
05 · What's Included
Fabric Insights ships as a ready-to-deploy pack with two production-grade modules, and integrates with the proactive monitoring and ETL frameworks already in the Agile Insights catalogue.
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06 · What good looks like
Fabric Insights is built on real engagement patterns from our work with public sector, financial services and enterprise customers.
Capacity unit savings from retiring unused items and fixing inefficient workloads.
Licence rationalisation by identifying inactive Pro, PPU and Fabric accounts.
Tenant coverage: every item, workspace, user and AI workload in a single source of truth.
Time to production: deployed and reporting inside your tenant in a fortnight.
07 · How we deliver
Fabric Insights is a fixed-scope, fixed-price accelerator. No surprises, no scope creep. Just the visibility your team needs to make better decisions about Fabric, faster.
Phase 01
Week 1 · Days 1 to 3
We map your tenant, validate service principal access, and configure the data collection layer against your admin APIs and audit logs. Your team continues business as usual.
Phase 02
Week 1 · Days 4 to 7
Fabric Insights semantic models and reports are deployed into a workspace you own. We map chargeback dimensions to your cost centres and align views to your domains and policies.
Phase 03
Week 2 · Days 8 to 14
Walkthrough sessions for admins, data leaders and finance stakeholders. We agree a refresh cadence and document your first 90 days of optimisation actions.
After go-live: keep Fabric Insights current as the platform evolves with an optional quarterly health check and feature refresh through Agile Insights Managed Services. Microsoft ships governance features monthly; your visibility layer should keep pace.
08 · Why Agile Insights
Fabric Insights is not theory. It’s a productised version of what we deliver inside some of Australia’s largest government, financial services and enterprise Fabric estates.
Specialisations in Analytics on Microsoft Azure and Data & AI. Deep, current expertise across the entire Fabric stack, kept sharp through our Microsoft co-engineering relationships.
Delivering for local, state and federal agencies. Sovereign data handling with proven compliance and security posture.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed timeline. Built on a proprietary framework refined across dozens of Fabric deployments, and updated as Microsoft ships new admin capabilities.
Strategy, migration, platform, governance and training in one team. Fabric Insights pairs with our Fabric Migration Accelerator, Fabric Framework and Power BI Uplift.
09 · Common questions
Fabric Insights is a productised accelerator from Agile Insights that gives Microsoft Fabric administrators, data leaders and finance teams a single tenant-wide view of their Fabric estate: usage, cost, security, AI adoption and performance. It deploys entirely within your own tenant in two weeks. It was formerly known as the Agile Insights Admin & Governance Pack and has been expanded to cover the full Fabric workload landscape.
Microsoft’s native apps are excellent starting points and we use the same underlying APIs and telemetry. The difference is unification, history and fit. Native tools each cover one slice of the picture; Fabric Insights joins usage, cost, security and AI adoption into one semantic model you own, retains history well beyond the native 14 to 30 day windows, and maps chargeback and governance views to your organisational structure rather than generic dimensions.
No. Fabric Insights is deployed as semantic models and Power BI reports inside a workspace you own, within your own Microsoft Fabric tenant. There is no third-party SaaS component and no data leaves your environment. Access to the reports is controlled by your own workspace permissions and sensitivity labels.
Yes. AI workload visibility is a core part of the expanded pack. Fabric Insights attributes Copilot capacity consumption and data agent activity to users, workspaces and use cases, and tracks adoption trends over time, so AI spend and AI governance are both managed from day one.
A service principal with the appropriate Fabric admin API permissions, a target workspace and capacity for the pack, and around two hours of your Fabric admin’s time across the two-week engagement for access validation and the handover sessions. We handle the rest.
The Fabric platform evolves monthly and Fabric Insights is maintained against it. Where Microsoft ships a new native capability, we integrate rather than duplicate it. Customers on our Managed Services plan receive quarterly health checks and feature refreshes so the pack keeps pace with the platform.
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