disabling a task in a databricks job

dpc
Contributor II

‎11-20-2025 03:00 AM

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

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Raman_Unifeye
Contributor III

‎11-20-2025 04:25 AM

No such Toggle to disable/enable task. 

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


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dpc
Contributor II

‎11-20-2025 05:45 AM

Thanks @Raman_Unifeye 

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

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Advika
Community Manager
Community Manager
In response to dpc

‎11-20-2025 07:03 AM - edited ‎11-20-2025 07:04 AM

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.

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Coffee77
Contributor III

‎11-21-2025 01:02 AM

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


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Raman_Unifeye
Contributor III
In response to Coffee77

‎11-21-2025 01:11 AM

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.


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dpc
Contributor II

‎11-21-2025 02:13 AM

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