Technical requirements

As of this writing in January 2024, the Microsoft Fabric Copilot feature is in preview, and you need P1, F64, or higher capacity to use Copilot.

Note

A capacity is a distinct pool of computing resources allocated to Microsoft Fabric and assigned to one or more Fabric workspaces. This capacity is available in multiple tiers, can be scaled up and down, and can be paused and resumed when needed. You can learn more about it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/licenses#capacity-license.

By default, this feature is disabled, and your Fabric tenant admin needs to enable it by going to Admin portal | Tenant settings and then, in the Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service section, toggle the slider to enable this feature, as shown in Figure 11.1. The important point to note, however, is that Copilot sends customer data such as prompts, augmented data with prompts, and AI outputs to Azure OpenAI Service for processing, where it is temporarily stored...