https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/built-a-chrome-extension-that-shows-live-hr-inside-the/m-p/156167#M5220 <P>Got annoyed by not being able to see real-time costs in Databricks whilst manipulating data pipelines. Built a Chrome extension sitting in the corner of the page, pulls cluster and warehouse state from the API every few seconds, multiplies by DBU rates to show you a live $/hr estimate. Next, I want to add idle alerts when clusters have been sitting idle for 30 min.</P><P>Couple questions before I go deeper:</P><OL><LI><P>Would you install this or is just "live cost" not enough?</P></LI><LI><P>What would push it from neat to part of your daily workflow?</P></LI><LI><P>Anyone using something similar I should look at first?</P></LI></OL><P>happy to open-source it once there is clear interest.</P> Tue, 05 May 2026 13:54:42 GMT simmestd 2026-05-05T13:54:42Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/built-a-chrome-extension-that-shows-live-hr-inside-the/m-p/156167#M5220 <P>Got annoyed by not being able to see real-time costs in Databricks whilst manipulating data pipelines. Built a Chrome extension sitting in the corner of the page, pulls cluster and warehouse state from the API every few seconds, multiplies by DBU rates to show you a live $/hr estimate. Next, I want to add idle alerts when clusters have been sitting idle for 30 min.</P><P>Couple questions before I go deeper:</P><OL><LI><P>Would you install this or is just "live cost" not enough?</P></LI><LI><P>What would push it from neat to part of your daily workflow?</P></LI><LI><P>Anyone using something similar I should look at first?</P></LI></OL><P>happy to open-source it once there is clear interest.</P> Tue, 05 May 2026 13:54:42 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/built-a-chrome-extension-that-shows-live-hr-inside-the/m-p/156167#M5220 simmestd 2026-05-05T13:54:42Z