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nafikazi
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Resolved! Estimating Databricks Annual Implementation and Licensing Costs in 2026

 Hello everyone,Good evening. I am a data analyst and a Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. While I understand the platform from a technical perspective and recognize its value, I am still learning how to estimate the full financial impact ...

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balajij8
Esteemed Contributor II
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@nafikazi  The framework you mapped out demonstrates a good understanding of how decisions dictate operational spend. Structuring the model around Year 1 implementation versus steady-state run rates, defining capacity tiers by team profile and establ...

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amitsharma1707
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Resolved! Microsoft Fabric One and Databricks Unity Catalog — Bidirectional Access Without Data Movement

Hi everyone,We're working in a hybrid environment with both Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, and I want to understand the options for virtualizing data between the two platforms without physically moving or duplicating it — similar to how shortcuts w...

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kartikchoudhary
New Contributor III
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One thing I'd evaluate before choosing between virtualization and replication is the ownership model.If Fabric and Databricks both need to operate on the same data, I'd look at four areas: authentication, governance/permissions, Delta feature compati...

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vkondepati
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Resolved! Unity Catalog Metric Views to be accessible to Custom Apps outside of DBX environment

Hello Everyone,We have a requirement to expose Databricks Unity Catalog Metric Views to custom applications running outside the Databricks environment.The application team would like to consume governed KPIs and metrics through APIs such as REST or G...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @vkondepati ,Hi  ,Hi,1. Out-of-the-box REST/GraphQL for metric views?Databricks does not appear to provide a Metric View-specific REST or GraphQL query API. Metric Views are queried through the Databricks SQL engine using SQL, including the MEASUR...

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Darshanrawal971
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How is Serverless Compute implemented under the hood?

Hi everyone,I've been reading about Serverless Compute and have a question about the underlying architecture.In the classic compute model, clusters are provisioned in the customer's cloud account. With Serverless, Databricks manages the compute, but ...

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ShamenParis
Contributor III
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Hi @Darshanrawal971 Great question! To understand how Serverless works under the hood, it helps to break it down into two main concepts: Warm Pools and Secure Networking.1. How Databricks manages the Compute (Warm Pools)Instead of spinning up new Vir...

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LeandroVeiga10
by New Contributor II
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Databricks Free Edition – No Workspace Available

Hello Databricks Community,I recently created a Databricks Free Edition account. Although my account is active and I can sign in successfully, no workspace is available. The account console displays the following message: “You are not a member of any...

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balajij8
Esteemed Contributor II
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Hi LeandroVeiga10, This issue is affecting the Free Edition in certain areas. Create a new Free Edition account and select the Singapore region instead of the US or your default region during sign-up. You should be able to complete your studies and w...

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yyonm
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Zerobus ingestion fails in Databricks Free Edition using Service Principal OAuth

Hi everyone!.I developed a Python producer that sends asynchronous dummy messages to Zerobus. I tested it in the Databricks workspace I use at work, and everything worked as expected. The messages were successfully ingested, and I was able to verify ...

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iyashk-DB
Databricks Employee
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Hi, it's worth verifying the exact Unity Catalog permissions before concluding that this is purely an edition limitation. Zerobus specifically requires the following grants: GRANT USE CATALOG ON CATALOG <catalog> TO `<service-principal-id>`; GRANT US...

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pragya17s
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Guidance Needed on Publishing a Databricks App to the Databricks Marketplace

Hi everyone,We are a Databricks Partner now and Salesforce Partner with over 15 years of experience. We have developed a Databricks App using Free Edition and seek for publication of our App on the Databricks Marketplace. We would appreciate guidance...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @pragya17s, I have just responded to your other post asking the same question. If you want to publish through Databricks Marketplace, you should plan around a paid Databricks environment rather than Free Edition. The Marketplace provider requireme...

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Swapnil-sriv
by New Contributor
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Do databricks partners need to pay for databricks account?

Hi guys,Our company is new to databricks and we want to become marketplace provider, so for that we have become databricks partner.and now that we want to develop our app/accelarator that we will put on databricks marketplace, do we need to get a pai...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Swapnil-sriv, Not a stupid question at all... It's a reasonable question when you're new to Databricks Marketplace. If your goal is to become a Databricks Marketplace provider and publish your own app or accelerator, a Free Edition account is gen...

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ss6
by New Contributor II
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Account does not exists error

I am writing to request assistance with a login issue I am experiencing with Databricks.I am attempting to create a Databricks account on AWS using my email address. Although I already have an active AWS account associated with this email, I am unabl...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi, For this kind of issue you should email onboarding-help@databricks.com with your account details and they should be able to help. You should have received an onboarding email, which you would have needed to accept before the workspace setup. If y...

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158576
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mount cifs volume on all purpose compute results in permission denied

I have all networking already set, nslookup resolves NAS server IP and connectivity is enabled from worker nodes to nas server. I am able to mount the same nas drive outside of databricks, I mean standalone linux vm in the same VPC where worker nodes...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @158576, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, and just closing the loop in case you’re still expecting an answer. Thanks for sharing the details. Based on what you’ve already validated, this does not sound like a basic networking problem. I...

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yustus
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! API - Service Principle Secret Generation

Hi everyone,I am looking for a way to automatically create service principals, including their secrets, for M2M OAuth.I know that service principals can be created via the API, but it seems that creating secrets for those service principals via the A...

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ShamenParis
Contributor III
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Hi @yustus It’s great that you are prioritizing secure M2M OAuth over OBO tokens!while @szymon_dybczak already mentioned the Python SDK and Terraform, I wanted to offer a few alternative approaches depending on how your automation is set up:1. The Di...

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dkxxx-rc
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Resolved! Work-around for cloning a repo with notebooks too big

Hi,It would be nice to be able to clone https://github.com/shap/shap into Databricks, it being such a standard.  But it fails because some of the notebooks violate a Databricks size limit.  Using sparse clone mode I can force my way through getting m...

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dkxxx-rc
Contributor
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This looks sufficient, thanks.  I was able to run a clone in the CLI.  The folder ends up in an invalid git state, but that appears to be because the beta feature isn't turned on for my workspace yet.

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lkahn
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Resolved! UI issue with R plots

Starting on May 6, our workspace in ap-southeast-2 stopped being able to display R plots correctly. This is specific to this workspace (we have 3), and specific to R plots, and is occurring for all users and clusters.The figure itself can be resized ...

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Lu_Wang_ENB_DBX
Databricks Employee
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This looks like a workspace-side notebook UI regression.  Recommendation Open a Databricks support ticket and treat it as a Notebook UI / rendering regression for that workspace. Include: Workspace IDRegion: ap-southeast-2Start date: May 6A notebook...

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uhuru_furuta
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Can't start Serverless Warehouse after extend budget

As my budget was exhausted, my serverless warehouse stopped and I extended my budget, which is now 'Under Budget'.However, my serverless warehouse still can't start as pasted. It is about 19 hours after when I extend budget.Do I need to do any other ...

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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
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To add to what Ganesh said, it seems that you have a Databricks Team (Account Executive and Solutions Architect). I would escalate this to them while you create the Support ticket in parallel. Based on what I can see, I think you had a Trial Account ...

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simmestd
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Built a chrome extension that shows live $/hr inside the databricks UI

Got annoyed by not being able to see real-time costs in Databricks whilst manipulating data pipelines. Built a Chrome extension sitting in the corner of the page, pulls cluster and warehouse state from the API every few seconds, multiplies by DBU rat...

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nayan_wylde
Esteemed Contributor II
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Yes, I’d install it — live cost is compelling — but it becomes daily-use only once it nudges behavior, not just informs.Live cost aloneValuable during notebook work, tuning, and experimentationHelps build immediate cost intuitionFeels “nice to have” ...

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