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Databricks

  • DBU cost by workspace and SKU

Method: Personal Access Token + SQL Warehouse

  1. As an account admin, enable system tables for your account if they aren’t already: go to Catalog → System Tables and enable the system.billing schema (or enable it via the Unity Catalog API). Older accounts ship with this disabled.
  2. In your Databricks workspace, go to Settings → Developer → Access tokens → Generate new token.
  3. Find a SQL warehouse to run the billing query against — any size works, since the query only reads small system tables. Go to SQL Warehouses, select a warehouse, and open Connection details to find its ID.
  4. In Plutus, enter your workspace URL (e.g. https://dbc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx.cloud.databricks.com), the access token, and the SQL warehouse ID.

Plutus queries system.billing.usage joined with system.billing.list_prices for DBU cost by workspace and SKU.

Requires system tables (system.billing.usage / system.billing.list_prices) to be enabled for your account by an account admin — these ship disabled by default on older accounts.