https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/16443#M10626 <P>As part of our Azure Data Factory pipeline, we utilize Databricks to run some scripts that identify which files we need to load from a certain source. This list of files is then passed back into Azure Data Factory utilizing the Exit status from the notebook.</P><P></P><P>The problem that we’ve noticed is that portions of certain filenames are being [REDACTED] as there is a pattern in the filename that matches one of our secrets.</P><P></P><P>My questions for you:</P><UL><LI>Is it possible to turn off the redaction of secrets?<UL><LI>Currently doesn’t pose an issue for us as developers have access to key vaults in the environments they have access to Dataabricks in</LI></UL></LI><LI>Is there another way to return values from a Notebook to Data Factory other than the dbutils.notebook.exit() function?</LI></UL><P></P><P></P> Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:26:03 GMT StephanieAlba 2021-08-16T15:26:03Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/16443#M10626 <P>As part of our Azure Data Factory pipeline, we utilize Databricks to run some scripts that identify which files we need to load from a certain source. This list of files is then passed back into Azure Data Factory utilizing the Exit status from the notebook.</P><P></P><P>The problem that we’ve noticed is that portions of certain filenames are being [REDACTED] as there is a pattern in the filename that matches one of our secrets.</P><P></P><P>My questions for you:</P><UL><LI>Is it possible to turn off the redaction of secrets?<UL><LI>Currently doesn’t pose an issue for us as developers have access to key vaults in the environments they have access to Dataabricks in</LI></UL></LI><LI>Is there another way to return values from a Notebook to Data Factory other than the dbutils.notebook.exit() function?</LI></UL><P></P><P></P> Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:26:03 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/16443#M10626 StephanieAlba 2021-08-16T15:26:03Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/16444#M10627 <P>No, it is not possible to turn off redaction. No, there is not another way to return values from a notebook.</P><P></P><P>1) Using a native Databricks feature such as Autoloader is suggested.</P><P>2) They could write the list of files to be processed to a delta table and then use a lookup activity -&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-lookup-activity" alt="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-lookup-activity" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-lookup-activity</A></P><P></P> Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:10:33 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/16444#M10627 StephanieAlba 2021-08-16T18:10:33Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/136364#M50553 <P>Hello, as of today, is it still not possible to unredact secret names?</P> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:13:01 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-the-redaction-of-secrets-is-there-a/m-p/136364#M50553 joanafloresc 2025-10-28T10:13:01Z