Administration

Databricks provides comprehensive administration capabilities to manage your account, workspaces, identities, and resources across your organization. Use these tools to configure account settings, deploy workspaces, manage users and groups, control compute resources, and monitor usage.

Account and workspace management

Manage your Databricks account settings, subscription, and workspace deployments across your organization.

Feature	Description
Administration concepts	Core concepts and foundational information about Databricks administration privileges and responsibilities.
Account administration	Manage your subscription, billing, serverless quotas, and account-level settings from the account console.
Workspace deployment	Create and manage workspaces using serverless or traditional deployment methods.
Workspace settings	Configure workspace-level features, settings, and Databricks Previews for individual workspaces.

Identity and access management

Control user access, manage identities, and configure authentication across your Databricks environment.

Feature	Description
Identity management	Manage users, groups, and service principals at the account and workspace level using SCIM provisioning.
Compute policies	Create policies to control compute configuration, limit resource usage, and standardize compute environments.

Monitoring and governance

Monitor account usage, access audit logs, and maintain visibility into your Databricks environment.

Feature	Description
System tables	Access audit logs, billable usage data, lineage information, and operational data from the system catalog.
Audit logs	View a reference of auditable events in your Databricks account.
Cost management	Monitor and manage costs with usage dashboards, budget policies, and billing analysis tools.