topic Re: Databricks Docs removed/hidden File Metadata documentation? in Data Engineering

Databricks Docs removed/hidden File Metadata documentation?

BS_THE_ANALYST — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:34:53 GMT

Hey everyone,

Hopefully this is a quick one to resolve (and it's probably me being behind-the-times or slightly stupid 😅).

I've been looking at getting metadata into my SQL query (when I'm ingesting files). This article is fantastic for solving this very problem: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ingestion/file-metadata-column?language=Python

Why is this documentation so hard to search for? It's like it's been removed from the documentation indexing somehow. If you look at the picture below, it's just in its own, separate category.

It's really hard to find when searching the docs or google!? Does anyone else have this problem when searching up this article? I feel like I'm missing something really obvious 😂.

Eagerly waiting for someone to just search the docs using "File Metadata Column" and it just somehow pops up for you & not me 😂.

All the best,
BS

Re: Databricks Docs removed/hidden File Metadata documentation?

WiliamRosa — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:54:44 GMT

Hi Bro!

Yes — this page doesn’t show up in search because it’s marked Unlisted, so it’s only available to people with the direct link (or via a few internal links). You can confirm this by viewing the page source and searching for “noindex”, as shown in the screenshot below.

All the best!

Re: Databricks Docs removed/hidden File Metadata documentation?

Advika — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:45:44 GMT

Thanks for bringing this up, @BS_THE_ANALYST! You’re right, that page shouldn’t be orphaned and belongs in a relevant section, so it’s easier to locate.
Also, good catch @WiliamRosa!

I’ve flagged this internally, and it should be updated soon.