topic Re: disabling a task in a databricks job in Data Engineering

disabling a task in a databricks job

dpc — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:00:27 GMT

Hello

I have jobs that perform a number of activities.

Sometimes I want to disable one or more of these activities.

I can do that easily in an app like ADF.

Reading around I cannot find an easy way to do this although, what I've read suggest that it was a 'soon to be expected' feature as far back as 2023, but maybe I've missed something

How do I do this is Databricks as I would have thought this is a fairly basic requirement.

Thanks

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

Raman_Unifeye — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:25:15 GMT

No such Toggle to disable/enable task.

If you use DAB, its easy to comment out the task and redploy.

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

dpc — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:45:28 GMT

Thanks @Raman_Unifeye

Do you know if there are any plans to add this feature?

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

Advika — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:04:46 GMT

Hello @dpc!

There isn’t a built-in toggle to disable a task at the moment. For one-off runs, you can try the following options:

Using UI: Use Run now with different settings and select only the tasks you’d like to run.
Using the API: Use the only field in the run-now endpoint to trigger specific tasks.

For any updates on feature availability or timelines, please share this as feedback here or check with your Databricks account team.

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

Coffee77 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:02:14 GMT

I'd go with @Advika suggestion to use different params to configure your tasks to be optionally executed based on those parameters. You can include IF/ELSE tasks for easily implement that.

Other options, valid but not very cool are 1) Cloning jobs and delete tasks 2) Deploy from DAB but previously removing tasks 3) Edit jobs in YAML directly in Databricks UI and comment or remove tasks

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

Raman_Unifeye — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:11:48 GMT

None of the options are as straightforward as the UI one.

Using UI: Use Run now with different settings and select only the tasks you’d like to run.

Yet again, I personally use DAB one as it is convenient to me.

Re: disabling a task in a databricks job

dpc — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:13:32 GMT

Thanks. I like the UI option. It's not a permanent disable but it will be good enough