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Box Audit Logs connector limitations

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This feature is in Beta. To use it, a workspace admin must turn on Lakeflow Connect for Box Audit Logs from the Previews page. See Manage Databricks previews.

The managed Box Audit Logs connector ingests only the event_logs table.

General software as a service (SaaS) connector limitations​

The limitations in this section apply to all SaaS connectors in Lakeflow Connect.

  • When you run a scheduled pipeline, alerts don't trigger immediately. Instead, they trigger when the next update runs.
  • When a source table is deleted, the destination table is not automatically deleted. You must delete the destination table manually. This behavior is not consistent with Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow behavior.
  • During source maintenance periods, Databricks might not be able to access your data.
  • If a source table name conflicts with an existing destination table name, the pipeline update fails.
  • Multi-destination pipeline support is API-only.
  • You can optionally rename a table that you ingest. If you rename a table in your pipeline, it becomes an API-only pipeline, and you can no longer edit the pipeline in the UI.
  • If you select a column after a pipeline has already started, the connector does not automatically backfill data for the new column. To ingest historical data, manually run a full refresh on the table.
  • Databricks can't ingest two or more tables with the same name in the same pipeline, even if they come from different source schemas.
  • The source system assumes that the cursor columns are monotonically increasing.
  • The connector ingests raw data without transformations. Use downstream Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow pipelines for transformations.

Connector-specific limitations​

The limitations in this section apply to the Box Audit Logs connector.

  • The connector ingests a single table, event_logs. It doesn't ingest other Box API resources, such as files, users, or folders.
  • Box retains enterprise events for 14 days when the stream type is admin_logs_streaming. The connector can't ingest events older than this retention window. See Get enterprise events.
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