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Measured, not estimated: what Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric really costs

Rene Fürstenberg — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:23:58 +0000

When you start with Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, the question of cost comes up sooner or later. Microsoft documents the billing meters, but it’s hard to tell what a complete solution with Eventstream, Eventhouse, a Real-Time Dashboard and Activator will cost in the end.I also get asked one question a lot: does every transformation in an Eventstream use extra capacity?

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From API to Data Agent: Germany’s power grid with Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric

Rene Fürstenberg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:02:59 +0000

In my latest project, I wanted to find out what Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric can do in practice. As an example, I picked the German power grid. The data never stands still: sometimes wind and solar cover more than the entire demand, sometimes the electricity price drops below zero, and the grid frequency moves around 50 Hz second by second.My goal was to load this data into Fabric…

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