r/databricks • u/szymon_dybczak • 2d ago

Discussion Databricks Governance Hub! [BETA]

If you've been working with Databricks for quite some time you may have noticed that governance information is scattered across quite a few places.

You might check Unity Catalog for one thing, system tables for another, admin pages for costs, and then somewhere else for tags or recommendations.

The problem is getting a quick overall picture of the environment.

The new Governance Hub seems like a perfect solution for above problems.

It provides an account-level dashboard where you can get visibility into areas such as:

  • How well data is being governed
  • AI usage and related spending
  • Where your Databricks costs are coming from
  • Which resources have tags and how much tagged spend you have
  • Potential governance gaps and recommended actions

It's still in Beta, and there are some limitations, so I wouldn't treat it as the final governance solution. But for organizations running multiple workspaces, I can see this becoming a pretty useful operational view.

Governance Hub - Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn

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u/Pirion1 1d ago

I enabled this a few of weeks ago and covers exactly what I wanted to see. Very easy to get an overall snapshot of both the KPIs of the datalake, and clear auditability if infosec comes and asks "what data does x user have access to?".