Lakewatch prerequisites

Beta

Lakewatch is in Beta. Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. See Manage workspace-level previews.

This page walks you through the features you must enable in the workspace you plan to use with Lakewatch.

Unity Catalog

Unity Catalog must be enabled in your Lakewatch workspace. All of the tables that Lakewatch creates go into the Unity Catalog catalog that you configure during setup, and this catalog can't use the legacy Hive metastore.

SQL warehouse

The Lakewatch UI uses a SQL warehouse to load the data it shows.

Some of the reporting features of Lakewatch also use the SQL warehouse for background tasks. Lakewatch doesn't create a warehouse for you. It uses the first of the following SQL warehouses that you can access:

• The warehouse you last selected in your browser.
• A running warehouse.
• The first available warehouse, which Lakewatch starts.

To use a different warehouse, select it in the warehouse picker in the top navigation bar. The picker isn't shown on the query pages, which have their own warehouse selector.

Detection rules run on the SQL warehouse that you select for each rule, which must meet a minimum Databricks SQL version. See Detection warehouse prerequisites.

Serverless job compute

Datasource ingestion jobs use serverless job compute for lower latency and more predictable performance as your data scales up. Classic compute isn't supported. Detection rules run on a SQL warehouse instead. See Set up a detection warehouse.

Accounts created after December 16, 2024 have serverless compute enabled automatically.

Older accounts require an account administrator to manually enable it in the Accounts Console.

To enable serverless compute at the account level:

1. Log in to the Accounts Console as an account administrator.

2. Go to Settings > Feature enablement.

3. Find Serverless compute and enable it.

   If prompted, accept the serverless terms of service.

4. Wait one to two minutes for the setting to propagate, then reopen Lakewatch.

warning

The Serverless compute setting in the workspace-level Feature Previews page is unrelated. That setting controls access management and rate limits, not serverless eligibility. The account-level setting in the Accounts Console is the one required for Lakewatch.

AI features

Lakewatch's Genie features, such as Triage with Genie on alerts and Create with Genie for detection rules, are built on Databricks AI assistive features. Which models power these features, and whether they're available, depends on your workspace's AI settings, including partner-powered AI features. For the current requirements, see Databricks AI assistive features. If you can't turn on a setting you need, contact your Databricks account team.