What is Databricks Assistant?

Databricks Assistant is an AI-based pair-programmer and support agent that makes you more efficient as you create notebooks, queries, dashboards, and files. It can help you rapidly answer questions by generating, optimizing, completing, explaining, and fixing code and queries.

This page provides general information about the Assistant. For questions about Assistant privacy, trust, and security, see Databricks AI features trust and safety.

How can Databricks Assistant help?

Databricks Assistant can help with the following tasks and more:

• Generate and explain code. See Get coding help from Databricks Assistant.
• Automatically find and fix errors
• Create data visualizations in AI/BI dashboards. See Create visualizations with Databricks Assistant.
• Diagnose Job errors (Public Preview feature). See Diagnose errors in jobs.
• Filter and analyze data using natural language. See What is Databricks Genie? and Filter data with natural language prompts.
• Ask natural language questions about sample data in Catalog Explorer. See Explore table data using an LLM.
• Find relevant help in Databricks documentation.

Assistant uses Unity Catalog metadata to understand your tables, columns, descriptions, and popular data assets across your company to provide personalized responses.

Get coding help from Databricks Assistant

To access Databricks Assistant, click the Assistant icon on the top right of any Databricks screen.

Users should always review any code generated by the Assistant before running it because it can sometimes make mistakes.

For more information on how the Assistant can help with code, see Get coding help from Databricks Assistant.

Code optimized for the Databricks environment

Code generated by the Databricks Assistant is intended to run in a Databricks compute environment. It is optimized to create code in Databricks-supported programming languages, frameworks, and dialects. It is not intended to be a general-purpose programming assistant.

The Assistant often uses information from Databricks resources, such as the Databricks documentation website or Knowledge Base, to better answer user queries. It performs best when the user question is related to questions that can be answered with knowledge from Databricks documentation, Unity Catalog, and user code in the Workspace.

What is the pricing for Databricks Assistant?

All current Databricks Assistant capabilities are available at no additional cost for all customers.

Users pay only for the compute that they use to run their notebooks, queries, jobs, and so on. There are fair usage limits in place to prevent abuse. Most users are not impacted by these limits.

Give feedback on Assistant answers

Let us know whether Assistant answers are useful or not:

1. Hover just below the Assistant answer.
2. Click the Useful or Not useful button.

Geo availability of Assistant features

Databricks Assistant is a Designated Service that uses Geos to manage data residency when processing customer content. To learn more about the availability of Assistant features in different geographic areas, see Databricks Designated Services.

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If you can't enable Databricks Assistant, you might need to disable Enforce data processing within workspace Geography for AI features. See Enable cross-Geo processing.