topic Re: TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to proc in Data Engineering

TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to process

Bedoonraj — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:12:10 GMT

I'm using DBT to run a model in databricks. I have view model, which holds 2 months of data (~2 million). There is no wide dependency transformation. All are case when statements. Total column no is 234. Till yesterday view was running fine. but today onward, i'm getting below error

TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to process your request. Please try again later or try a faster operation.

Re: TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to proc

Khaja_Zaffer — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:40:24 GMT

Hello @Bedoonraj

From what I see https://status.azuredatabricks.net/ there are no such issues.
Just want to check whether it has resolved by itself as it mentioned like please try again later?

Re: TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to proc

Bedoonraj — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:44:05 GMT

I tried for 1-2 days, still same error. I changed to table materialization, then only it worked. Any reason view is failing?

Re: TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE: The service at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables is taking too long to proc

WiliamRosa — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:48:16 GMT

Hi @Bedoonraj,
I tested the API call and it worked fine. I also confirmed, just like Khaja_Zaffer mentioned, that there’s no instability with this service. I’d suggest checking your cluster settings and, if possible, trying the test on a different compute.