Setup Alerts to monitor cost in dartabricks

[Francis]

Hi Team Tech,

Recently we had an huge bill in databricks and we want to somehow have an alerting system in place to monitor cost.

Please can someone help me to know how to setup email notification for cost alerts in databricks.

As we need to setup an email alert if the cost reaches more that whats mentioned in the alert.

Also can someone help to access BudgetAPI. how do I access Budget API and how can i setup email alerts to email me when cost goes high than the expected budget.

Francis Lobo

[Francis]

Hi 

Thanks for your reply.

I checked in the Databricks workspace, navigating to the "Admin Console but I could not find Cost Management option.

Please let me know if Iam missing something. Attached the screengrab.

Francis

[karthik_p]

@Francis looks Budget API is not available now, one thing you can do is setting alerts in cloud level or create custom scripts to pull DBU price from billable API https://docs.databricks.com/api/account/billableusage/download and try to trigger email alert using custom code

[TravBricks]

This is an old thread but for posterity...

@Francis What you were looking for is not available in the workspace setting but in the account console.

The unified way of tracking costs within Databricks is through System Tables, specifically billable usage. Dashboards and alerts can be constructed to support alerting as needed. The other native mechanisms differ per cloud depending on the cloud. With AWS, it is built into the account console, and for Azure, it is baked into the native cost analysis solution.

It is highly recommended that a robust tagging taxonomy be applied since tags will propagate through system tables and the other noted cost-tracking solutions.

This Medium blog post, Understanding Azure Databricks Costs using Azure Cost Management for Observability and Chargebacks —... sums it up nicely.