topic Re: How to Find DBU Consumption and Cost for a Serverless Job? in Data Engineering

How to Find DBU Consumption and Cost for a Serverless Job?

LonguiVic1 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:40:55 GMT

Hello community,

I'm new to using Serverless compute for my Jobs and I need some help understanding how to monitor the costs.

I have configured and run a job that executes a notebook using the "Serverless" compute option. The job completed successfully.

Now, I'd like to know exactly how much this run cost. My questions are:

Where in the Databricks UI (which screen or report) can I find the exact number of DBUs that this specific run consumed?

Is there a way to see this DBU consumption converted to dollars directly on the platform, or do I need to calculate it manually using my plan's DBU rate?

If anyone could point me in the right direction with a step-by-step guide or a screenshot, it would be a great help.

Thank you very much!

Re: How to Find DBU Consumption and Cost for a Serverless Job?

szymon_dybczak — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:07:27 GMT

Hi @LonguiVic1 ,

You can use system table to track consumption in serverless. In below article they even provide sample queries you can use. Also, notice that there's list_prices system table that includes list prices over time for each available SKU. You can join the usage table to view the listing cost of certain usage.

Monitor the cost of serverless compute - Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn

And if you have an access to account console there's is this Usage section that allows you to setup dedicated dashboard that you can use to analyze tag attribution and identify cost drivers.
All the usages in the dashboard are calculated based on the effective list price in USD