Operate

What we run for you once it is live.

Delivery ends at go-live. Operations start there. Labs Virtual provides named-contact managed services, DataOps, DevOps, and SRE for Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and the surrounding data stack.

Managed Services

Named contact, SLA, escalation path.

You get one person who understands your platform completely — not a ticketing queue or a rotating helpdesk. That contact handles incidents, monitors cost, coordinates with Microsoft, and keeps your data operations running.

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Named contact

One dedicated specialist who knows your architecture, your vendors, and your escalation contacts — not a generic support pool.

Single point of contact Platform context maintained
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SLA-backed response

Response and resolution SLAs matched to your operational tier. Critical platform incidents get a response within the hour.

P1 < 1h response Monthly SLA reporting
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Vendor escalation path

Direct escalation to Microsoft, Databricks, Datadog, and other platform vendors — with context already provided. No repeat explanations.

Microsoft Premier path Vendor coordination

Platform Support

Data and infrastructure support, without the overhead.

Incidents, architecture questions, cost reviews, security patches, access governance — handled by the same team that designed the platform. Not outsourced to a separate support vendor who needs to be briefed from scratch every time.

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What support covers
Fabric capacity incidents and performance
Azure networking and identity issues
Power BI gateway and refresh failures
Pipeline failures and data quality alerts
Cost anomaly detection and response
Security and compliance patching
Architecture change advisory
Vendor coordination and escalation

DataOps

Pipeline reliability, data quality, incidents.

Pipeline failures are business failures. DataOps with Labs Virtual means continuous monitoring of your data pipelines, quality gates on every ingestion layer, and a defined incident response path when things break.

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Pipeline monitoring

24/7 monitoring of Data Factory, Fabric Pipelines, and Databricks jobs. SLA-backed alerting before failures hit downstream consumers.

Azure MonitorDatadogCustom alerting
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Data quality gates

Automated quality checks at ingestion, transformation, and serving layers. Quarantine bad data before it reaches dashboards and reports.

dbt testsGreat ExpectationsFabric DQ
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Incident response

Defined runbooks for common failure patterns. On-call coverage matched to your SLA tier. Root cause analysis and preventive fixes as standard.

RunbooksRCA reportsOn-call coverage

DevOps

Infra as code, CI/CD, environments.

Every platform needs repeatable, auditable deployment. Labs Virtual structures your environments, automates deployments, and ensures your data infrastructure is versioned, testable, and recoverable.

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Infrastructure as code

Terraform and Azure Bicep for every resource. No manually provisioned infrastructure that nobody remembers configuring.

TerraformBicepARM templates
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CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines for notebook deployments, schema migrations, pipeline updates, and Power BI report publishing.

GitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsFabric Git
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Environment management

Dev, test, and production environments with proper isolation, workspace separation, and promotion gates. Hotfixes tracked, not guessed.

Workspace separationPromotion gates

MLOps

Model deployment, monitoring, drift.

Trained models have a half-life. Labs Virtual manages the full MLOps lifecycle — from model packaging and deployment through to drift detection, retraining triggers, and explainability logging.

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Model serving

Azure ML, Databricks MLflow, and Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for model endpoints. Versioned, monitored, rollback-ready.

Azure MLMLflowFabric RTI
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Drift detection

Automated data and concept drift monitoring with configurable thresholds. Early warning before model degradation reaches business impact.

Feature driftPrediction drift
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Retraining pipelines

Scheduled and trigger-based retraining with automated evaluation gates. A model only promotes to production if it improves on the current baseline.

Auto-retrainA/B evaluation

SRE & Reliability

SLOs, observability, incident response.

Reliability is designed, not hoped for. Labs Virtual defines and tracks SLOs for your platform, builds the observability stack, and manages the on-call process — so incidents are handled before they become outages.

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SLO definition & tracking

Service level objectives set per platform component. Error budgets tracked weekly. Burn rate alerts prevent SLO exhaustion before it happens.

Error budgetsBurn rate alerts
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Observability stack

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Datadog wired to your platform. Dashboards, alerts, and traces — not guessing from raw logs.

Azure MonitorLog AnalyticsDatadog
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On-call & runbooks

Defined on-call rotation, documented runbooks for all critical failure scenarios, and post-incident reviews that actually improve the system.

RunbooksPIR processOn-call rotation

Ecosystem Map

Find the zone where your problem lives.

Labs Virtual operates across the modern data stack. Every zone below is a category of platform work we handle under managed operations.

Ingestion
Azure Data Factory Fabric Pipelines Event Hubs Fivetran Kafka / Event Stream
Storage & Compute
OneLake Azure Data Lake Fabric Lakehouse Databricks Synapse Analytics
Serving & Analytics
Power BI / Fabric Azure Analysis Services Real-Time Dashboards Semantic models DirectLake
Governance & Observability
Microsoft Purview Azure Monitor Log Analytics Datadog Cost Management
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Tell us what you are running.

Whether you need a fully managed service or just a reliable on-call contact for your existing platform, we scope based on what you actually need — not a fixed package.

Named contact within two business days
Platform intake — we read your architecture before the first call
Honest scope — we tell you what we can cover and what we cannot