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Databricks Monitoring & Alerting Suite

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Databricks Monitoring & Alerting Suite

Version: 1.0.0
Author: Datanest Digital
Price: $59
Category: Databricks

Overview

A comprehensive, production-ready monitoring and alerting toolkit for Databricks workspaces. This suite provides 8 SQL dashboards, configurable alert definitions, 50+ pre-built system table queries, webhook integrations, report templates, and operational runbooks -- everything you need to achieve full observability over your Databricks environment.

What's Included

Dashboards (8)

Dashboard Description
Pipeline Health Success rates, failure trends, duration tracking across all pipelines
Cluster Utilization CPU, memory, idle time, and cost attribution per cluster
Job Failure Analysis Error categorization, root cause patterns, failure heatmaps
Cost Trends Daily/weekly/monthly DBU spend broken down by team, workspace, SKU
User Activity Active users, notebook execution patterns, query frequency analysis
Data Freshness Table update timestamps vs SLA targets with breach detection
Query Performance SQL warehouse query latency, throughput, and optimization signals
Capacity Planning Growth projections, resource demand forecasting, headroom analysis

Alerts

  • Alert Definitions -- SQL-based alert rules for job failures, cost spikes, idle clusters, SLA breaches, and more
  • Webhook Templates -- Ready-to-use payload templates for Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and email

Queries

  • System Table Library -- 50+ pre-built queries against system.billing, system.access, system.compute, and related tables covering billing analysis, access auditing, compute profiling, and operational diagnostics

Templates & Runbooks

  • Monthly Health Report -- Markdown template with embedded query references for generating executive-level monthly reports
  • Common Operations Runbook -- Step-by-step procedures for incident response, cost optimization, capacity management, and access review

Prerequisites

  • Databricks workspace with Unity Catalog enabled
  • Access to system tables (system.billing, system.access, system.compute)
  • SQL warehouse (Serverless or Pro recommended)
  • Databricks SQL Alerts & Dashboards feature enabled

Quick Start

  1. Import Dashboards -- Open each .sql file in dashboards/ and create a new Databricks SQL dashboard with the queries
  2. Configure Alerts -- Run alerts/alert_definitions.sql to create alert rules, then configure destinations using the webhook templates in alerts/webhook_templates.json
  3. Explore Queries -- Use queries/system_table_library.sql as a reference library; copy individual queries into notebooks or dashboards as needed
  4. Schedule Reports -- Adapt templates/monthly_health_report.md to your organization and schedule the underlying queries
  5. Adopt Runbooks -- Customize runbooks/common_operations.md with your team's escalation paths and thresholds

File Structure 

05-databricks-monitoring-suite/
├── README.md
├── manifest.json
├── dashboards/
│   ├── pipeline_health.sql
│   ├── cluster_utilization.sql
│   ├── job_failure_analysis.sql
│   ├── cost_trends.sql
│   ├── user_activity.sql
│   ├── data_freshness.sql
│   ├── query_performance.sql
│   └── capacity_planning.sql
├── alerts/
│   ├── alert_definitions.sql
│   └── webhook_templates.json
├── queries/
│   └── system_table_library.sql
├── templates/
│   └── monthly_health_report.md
└── runbooks/
    └── common_operations.md
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Customization

All SQL queries use standard Databricks SQL syntax and reference system tables available in any Unity Catalog-enabled workspace. Common customization points:

  • Cost thresholds -- Adjust alert thresholds in alert_definitions.sql to match your budget
  • SLA targets -- Modify freshness SLA values in data_freshness.sql for your data contracts
  • Team mappings -- Update team/cost-center groupings in cost_trends.sql to reflect your org structure
  • Webhook URLs -- Replace placeholder URLs in webhook_templates.json with your actual endpoints

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