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noorbasha534
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Enforcing developers to use something like a single user cluster

Dear allwe have a challenge. Developers create/recreate tables/views in PRD environment by running notebooks on all-purpose clusters where as the same notebooks already exist as jobs. Not sure, why the developers feel comfortable in using all-purpose...

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noorbasha534
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Hi Stefan, exactly, we have the same. the CI/CD process invokes jobs that run as service principal. So far, so good. But, please note that not all situations would fall under this ideal case. There will be cases wherein I have to recreate 50 views ou...

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SmileyVille
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Leverage Azure PIM with DataBricks with Contributor role privilege

We are trying to leverage Azure PIM.  This works great for most things, however; we've run into a snag.  We want to limit the contributor role to a group and only at the resource group level, not subscription.  We wish to elevate via PIM.  This will ...

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SmileyVille
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Never did, so we scrapped PIM with Databricks for now.

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ambigus9
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R-studio on Dedicated Cluster Invalid Access Token

Hello!! Currently I have an R-studio installed on a Dedicated Cluster over Azure Databricks, here are the specs:I must to make enfasis over the Access mode: Manual and Dedicated to a Group.Here, we install R-studio using a notebook with the following...

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ambigus9
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Hello! It's me again, I'm also getting the following error: after testing a connection to databricks using sparklyr:Error: ! java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Unity API token found in Unity Scope Run `sparklyr::spark_last_error()` to see the full ...

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KLin
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Resolved! Unable to Pinpoint where network traffic originates from in GCP

Hi everyone,I have a question regarding networking. A bit of background first: For security reasons, the current allow-policy from GCP to our on-prem-infrastructure is being replaced by a deny-policy for traffic originating from GCP. Therefore access...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @KLin, happy to help! -  The reason why traffic originates from the pods subnet for clusters/SQL warehouses without the x-databricks-nextgen-cluster tag (still using GKE) and from the node subnet for clusters with the GCE tag is due to the underly...

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jonas_braun
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Asset Bundle: inject job start_time parameter

Hey!I'm deploying a job with databricks asset bundles.When the pyspark task is started on a job cluster, I want the python code to read the job start_time and select the right data sources based on that parameter.Ideally, I would read the parameter f...

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jonas_braun
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The databricks cli version is Databricks CLI v0.239.1

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mnorland
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Resolved! Custom VPC Subranges for New GCP Databricks Deployment

What Pods and Services subranges would you recommend for a /22 subnet for a custom VPC for a new GCP Databricks deployment in the GCE era?  

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mnorland
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The secondary ranges are there to support legacy GKE clusters.  While required in the UI, they can be empty in terraform (per a source) for new deployments as clusters are GCE now. (There is a green GCE next to the cluster name.)  When observing the ...

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Jeff4
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Unable to create workspace using API

Hi all,I'm trying to automate the deployment of Databricks into GCP. In order to streamline the process, I created a standalone project to hold the service accounts SA1 and SA2, with the second one then being manually populated into the Databricks ac...

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hartenc
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Workflow job runs are disabled

I'm not totally clear on the financial details, but from what I've been told: A few months our contract with Databricks expired and changed in a per-month subscription. In those months there was a problem with payments due to bills being sent to a wr...

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hartenc
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We contacted them, but were told that we could only use community support unless we got a premium support subscription (not sure about the exact term, somebody else asked them).Our account ID is ddcb191f-aff5-4ba5-be46-41adf1705e03. If the  workspace...

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Georgi
by New Contributor
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How to set a static IP to a cluster

Is there a way to set a static IP to a cluster on the Databricks instance? I'm trying to establish connection with a service outside AWS and it seems the only way to allow inbound connections is by adding the IP to a set of rules. thanks!I couldn’t f...

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Takuya-Omi
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Hi, @Georgi Databricks clusters on AWS don’t have a built‐in way to assign a static IP address. Instead, the typical workaround is to route all outbound traffic from your clusters through a NAT Gateway (or similar solution) that has an Elastic IP ass...

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mzs
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Resolved! Understanding Azure frontend private link endpoints

Hi,I've been reading up on private link (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/network/classic/private-link) and have some questions:In the standard deployment, do the transit VNet (frontend private endpoint) and Databricks work...

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Zubisid
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Below are the answers to your questions -1) No, they don’t have to be in the same subscription. You can have the transit VNet (with the front-end Private Endpoint) in one subscription and the Databricks workspace in another, as long as you set up the...

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mzs
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Using a proxy server to install packages from PyPI in Azure Databricks

Hi,I'm setting up a workspace in Azure and would like to put some restrictions in place on outbound Internet access to reduce the risk of data exfiltration from notebooks and jobs. I plan to use VNet Injection and SCC + back-end private link for comp...

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mzs
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Thanks Isi, this is great info. I'll update once I've tried it.

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meshko
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help undersanding RAM utilization graph

I am trying to understand the following graph databricks is showing me and failing:What is that constant lightly shaded area close to 138GB? It is not explained in the "Usage type" legend. The job is running completely on the driver node, not utilizi...

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koji_kawamura
Databricks Employee
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Hi @meshko  The light-shaded area represents the total available RAM size. The tooltip shows it when you hover over a mouse.    

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dofrey
by New Contributor II
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Create account group with terraform without account admin permissions

I’m trying to create an account-level group in Databricks using Terraform. When creating a group via the UI, it automatically becomes an account-level group that can be reused across workspaces. However, I’m struggling to achieve the same using Terra...

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fazetu01
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I am also interested in the solution for this! Workspace-level groups cannot be used to grant permissions on Unity Catalog resources so I also need to be able to create account-level groups in terraform while not being an account admin.

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200842
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Resolved! How can i run a single task in job from Rest API

How can I run a single task in a job that has many tasks?I can do it in the UI, but I can’t find a way to do it using the REST API. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

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themattmorris
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It looks like this may be a possibility now? I haven't actually tried it, but I noticed a parameter named "only" has been added to the Databricks SDK for when running a job. Here is the commit that made the change: [Release] Release v0.38.0 (#826) · ...

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jeffreym9
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Databricks Managed MLFlow with Different Unity Catalog for Multi-tenant Production Tracing

Is the Databricks Managed MLFlow only trace LLM traffic through Serving Endpoint? Does it support manual tracing in my LLM application with decorator @mlflow.trace ?Also, How can Databricks Managed MLFlow support multi-tenant cases where traces need ...

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