Unit used to size and bill Application Gateway v2, set by whichever is greatest of one compute unit, 2,500 persistent connections or 2.22 Mbps; an instance supplies roughly 10 of them.
Also called CU.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
AZ-700DP-600DP-700PL-300DP-800
Each book explains Capacity unit in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Application Gateway v2
Present-day Application Gateway SKU, Standard_v2 or WAF_v2, offering zone redundancy, autoscaling, a static VIP, Key Vault integration and header rewrite. It requires its own subnet, ideally a /24.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- GREATEST
Pass up to 254 expressions to this T-SQL function and it hands back whichever is biggest. Both Fabric Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints support it.
Related terms
- Job Concurrency & Queue Monitoring
A dashboard on the Jobs tab of a workspace's Spark settings showing running and waiting Spark jobs, capacity unit usage and concurrency limits. It also lets you compare the workspace against others sharing its capacity.
- Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app
A Power BI app for keeping an eye on Fabric and Power BI Premium capacities, set up by whoever administers the capacity. The Compute view covers the last 14 days of capacity unit usage and throttling, down to the items and operations responsible.
- Scale unit
Capacity unit for Virtual WAN gateways, configured independently for each gateway type: a site-to-site VPN unit gives 500 Mbps, while an ExpressRoute unit gives 2 Gbps.
- Timepoint
Fabric spreads capacity unit consumption across 30-second slots, 2,880 per day. Interactive work gets spread across 5 minutes or longer; background work across 24 hours.