Databricks receiver 🔗

The Databricks receiver allows the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to collect metrics from Databricks using the Databricks API. Use this integration to view and monitor the health of your Databricks clusters. The supported pipeline type is metrics.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access the following features:

Visualize physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Splunk Observability Cloud. For information about navigators, see Use navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
Search for metrics sent by the receiver. For information about Metric Finder, see Use the Metric Finder and Metadata Catalog.

Get started 🔗

Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the Databricks receiver as described in the next section.
Restart the Collector.

Sample configurations 🔗

To activate the Databricks receiver, add databricks to the receivers section of your configuration file with all the mandatory fields, as shown in the following example:

receivers:
  databricks:
    instance_name: my-instance
    endpoint: https://my.host
    token: abc123
    collection_interval: 60s
    max_results: 10

To complete the configuration, include the receiver in the metrics pipeline of the service section of your configuration file. For example:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [databricks]

Settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Databricks receiver:

Name	Description	Required
`instance_name`	A string representing the name of the instance. This value gets set as a `databricks.instance.name` resource attribute.	Yes
`endpoint`	The protocol (http or https), hostname, and port for the Databricks API, without a trailing slash.	Yes
`token`	An access token to authenticate to the Databricks API. See Authentication using Databricks personal access tokens on the Databricks documentation site for more information.	Yes
`collection_interval`	How often this receiver fetches information from the Databricks API. Must be a string readable by `time.ParseDuration`. The default value is `30s`.	No
`max_results`	The maximum number of items to return per API call. The default value is `25`, which is the maximum value. If set explicitly, the API requires a value greater than `0`, and less than or equal to `25`.	No

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics, resource attributes, and attributes are available.

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers 🔗

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal.
Call Splunk Customer Support.

Available to customers and free trial users 🔗

Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers.
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To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success.

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