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Where is Lakeflow Designer in the databricks UI

nafikazi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:10:04 GMT

Hello everyone,

Yesterday I saw a demo of Lakeflow Designer, and it looked very interesting. I tried to find this option in the UI, but I was not able to locate it.

Could anyone please guide me on where I can access or try out this feature?

I would really appreciate your guidance.

Thank you.

Re: Where is Lakeflow Designer in the databricks UI

balajij8 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:12:17 GMT

@nafikazi You can access it from

click Jobs and Pipelines and click ETL pipeline or
click New in sidebar and click ETL Pipeline

Re: Where is Lakeflow Designer in the databricks UI

Louis_Frolio — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:10:22 GMT

Hey @nafikazi , @balajij8 has it right:

You’re looking in the right place. Lakeflow Designer does not appear in the UI as its own separate “Lakeflow Designer” menu item. Instead, it shows up through the ETL pipeline entry points.

You can get to it either of these ways:

In the left sidebar, go to Jobs → Pipelines → ETL pipeline

Or in the left sidebar, go to New → ETL pipeline

Both of those paths open the Lakeflow Designer canvas, where you can build ETL pipelines.

Cheers, Louis

Re: Where is Lakeflow Designer in the databricks UI

KrisJohannesen — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:54:44 GMT

If you are talking about the No-code version that is described here, then that is still in Private Preview as far as I am aware. Talk to your Databricks Account if you want to opt into the preview.

If you do get access to it, you should be able to find it in the SQL Editor. At the top of your editor window there is a toggle to switch between Query and Visual which is what you are looking for.