Auditing, privacy, and compliance

Databricks has features that allow you to audit and monitor detailed usage patterns. Not all audit and monitoring features are available on all pricing tiers. The following table contains an overview of the features and how they align to pricing plans.

Feature	Pricing tier
Audit logs	Premium
GDPR and CCPA compliance with Delta Lake	Standard
Compliance security profile	Enterprise
HIPAA compliance features	Enterprise
PCI-DSS compliance controls	Enterprise
FedRAMP Moderate compliance controls	Enterprise
Enhanced Security Monitoring	Enterprise
Audit log schemas for security monitoring	Enterprise

Audit logs

Databricks provides access to audit logs of activities performed by Databricks users, allowing you to monitor detailed usage patterns. You can configure two types of audit and usage logging:

Billable usage log delivery: Automated delivery of usage logs. See Deliver and access billable usage logs.

Audit log delivery: Automated delivery of audit logs. See Configure audit log delivery.

Privacy and compliance

Databricks has put in place controls to meet the unique compliance needs of highly regulated industries.

To learn how you can use Delta Lake on Databricks to manage General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance for your data lake, see GDPR and CCPA compliance with Delta Lake

For more information about privacy and compliance and Databricks, see the Databricks Security and Trust Center.

The compliance security profile

You must enable the compliance security profile to use Databricks to process data that is regulated under the following compliance standards:

You can enable the compliance security profile on all existing and future workspaces in your Databricks account or on specific workspaces. See Enable the compliance security profile.

You are solely responsible for ensuring your own compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Monitoring

Enhanced Security Monitoring provides an enhanced disk image and additional security monitoring agents that generate logs that you can review. See Enhanced Security Monitoring

Enhanced Security Monitoring and the compliance security profile both enable several additional monitoring agents. The output for these monitoring agents is available within Databricks audit logs. For more information, see Additional security monitoring events.