Access control lists

This page describes details about the permissions available for the different workspace objects.

Access control lists overview

In Databricks, you can use access control lists (ACLs) to configure permission to access workspace level objects. Workspace admins have the CAN MANAGE permission on all objects in their workspace, which gives them the ability to manage permissions on all objects in their workspaces. Users automatically have the CAN MANAGE permission for objects that they create.

For an example of how to map typical personas to workspace-level permissions, see the Proposal for Getting Started With Databricks Groups and Permissions.

Manage access control lists with folders

You can manage workspace object permissions by adding objects to folders. Objects in a folder inherit all permissions settings of that folder. For example, a user that has the CAN RUN permission on a folder has CAN RUN permission on the alerts in that folder.

If you grant a user access to an object inside the folder, they can view the parent folder's name, even if they do not have permissions on the parent folder. For example, a notebook named test1.py is in a folder named Workflows. If you grant a user CAN VIEW on test1.py and no permissions on Workflows, the user can see that the parent folder is named Workflows. The user cannot view or access any other objects in the Workflows folder unless they have been granted permissions on them.

To learn about organizing objects into folders, see Workspace browser.

Alerts ACLs

Ability	CAN RUN	CAN MANAGE
See in alert list	✓	✓
View alert and result	✓	✓
Manually trigger alert run	✓	✓
Subscribe to notifications	✓	✓
Edit alert		✓
Modify permissions		✓
Delete alert		✓

Compute ACLs

important

On compute resources that use the legacy access mode No isolation shared, users with CAN ATTACH TO permissions can view the service account keys in the log4j file. Use caution when granting this permission. For more detail on this mode and how to restrict it, see What are no isolation shared clusters?.

Ability	CAN ATTACH TO	CAN RESTART	CAN MANAGE
Attach notebook to compute	✓	✓	✓
View Spark UI	✓	✓	✓
View compute metrics	✓	✓	✓
Terminate compute		✓	✓
Start and restart compute		✓	✓
View driver logs			✓ (see note)
Edit compute			✓
Attach library to compute			✓
Resize compute			✓
Modify permissions			✓

note

Secrets are not redacted from a cluster's Spark driver log stdout and stderr streams. To protect sensitive data, by default, Spark driver logs are viewable only by users with CAN MANAGE permission on job, dedicated access mode, and standard access mode clusters. To allow users with CAN ATTACH TO or CAN RESTART permission to view the logs on these clusters, set the following Spark configuration property in the cluster configuration: spark.databricks.acl.needAdminPermissionToViewLogs false.

On No Isolation Shared access mode clusters, the Spark driver logs can be viewed by users with CAN ATTACH TO, CAN RESTART, or CAN MANAGE permission. To limit who can read the logs to only users with the CAN MANAGE permission, set spark.databricks.acl.needAdminPermissionToViewLogs to true.

See Spark configuration to learn how to add Spark properties to a cluster configuration.

Dashboard ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW/CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View dashboard, results, and datasets	✓	✓	✓
Interact with widgets	✓	✓	✓
Refresh the dashboard	✓	✓	✓
Edit dashboard		✓	✓
Clone dashboard	✓	✓	✓
Publish dashboard snapshot		✓	✓
Modify permissions			✓
Delete dashboard			✓

Legacy dashboard ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
See in dashboard list	✓	✓	✓	✓
View dashboard and results	✓	✓	✓	✓
Refresh query results in the dashboard (or choose different parameters)		✓	✓	✓
Edit dashboard			✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓
Delete dashboard				✓

Editing a legacy dashboard requires the Run as viewer sharing setting. See Refresh behavior and execution context.

Database instance ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN USE	CAN MANAGE
Get database instance	✓	✓	✓
List database instances	✓	✓	✓
Create database instance	✓	✓	✓
Create synced table		✓	✓
Create Unity Catalog database catalog			✓
Modify Postgres roles			✓
Delete database instance			✓
Modify permissions			✓
Pause database instance			✓
Resume database instance			✓

note

All workspace users automatically inherit CAN CREATE permission. This permission cannot be assigned or removed.
When performing operations that interact with Unity Catalog you need to have permissions on the Unity Catalog object:
- Create Unity Catalog database catalog: Requires the CREATE CATALOG privilege on the Unity Catalog metastore.
- Create synced table: Requires Unity Catalog permissions to read the source table, write to the destination schema, and write to the pipeline storage schema.

Lakebase project ACLs

These ACL tables show permissions for Lakebase (Autoscaling) projects. For Lakebase (Provisioned) permissions, see Database instance ACLs.

For more information about Lakebase (Autoscaling), see Projects.

note

Workspace admins automatically inherit the CAN MANAGE permission on all Lakebase project resources.
All workspace users automatically inherit the CAN CREATE permission. This permission cannot be assigned or removed.
To grant access to other individuals, groups, or service principals, assign the CAN MANAGE permission.

Project ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN MANAGE
View project	✓	✓
Create project	✓	✓
Delete project		✓
Update project		✓
View connection URI		✓
List projects	✓	✓
View project limits	✓	✓

Branch ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN MANAGE
List project branches	✓	✓
Create project branch		✓
Count project branches	✓	✓
Create branch database		✓
Create branch role		✓
Delete project branch		✓
Delete branch database		✓
Delete branch role		✓
Delete project branches		✓
Finalize restore branch		✓
View project branch	✓	✓
View branch database	✓	✓
View branch role	✓	✓
View branch role password		✓
View branch schema	✓	✓
List branch databases	✓	✓
List branch endpoints	✓	✓
List branch roles	✓	✓
Reset project branch		✓
Reset branch role password		✓
Reset branch to parent		✓
Restore project branch		✓
Set default project branch		✓
Update project branch		✓
Update branch database		✓

Snapshot ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN MANAGE
List snapshots	✓	✓
Create snapshot		✓
View snapshot schedule	✓	✓
Set snapshot schedule		✓
Delete snapshot		✓
Update snapshot		✓
Restore snapshot		✓

Endpoint ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN MANAGE
List project endpoints	✓	✓
Create project endpoint		✓
Delete project endpoint		✓
View project endpoint	✓	✓
Restart project endpoint		✓
Start project endpoint		✓
Suspend project endpoint		✓
Update project endpoint		✓

Operation ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN MANAGE
View project operations	✓	✓
List project operations	✓	✓
List running project operations	✓	✓

Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN MANAGE	IS OWNER
View pipeline details and list pipeline	✓	✓	✓	✓
View Spark UI and driver logs	✓	✓	✓	✓
Start and stop a pipeline update		✓	✓	✓
Stop pipeline clusters directly		✓	✓	✓
Edit pipeline settings			✓	✓
Delete the pipeline			✓	✓
Purge runs and experiments			✓	✓
Modify permissions			✓	✓

Feature tables ACLs

This table describes how to control access to feature tables in workspaces that are not enabled for Unity Catalog. If your workspace is enabled for Unity Catalog, use Unity Catalog privileges instead.

note

Feature Store access control does not govern access to the underlying Delta table, which is governed by table access control.
For more information about workspace feature table permissions, see Control access to feature tables in Workspace Feature Store (legacy).

Ability	CAN VIEW METADATA	CAN EDIT METADATA	CAN MANAGE
Read feature table	✓	✓	✓
Search feature table	✓	✓	✓
Publish feature table to online store	✓	✓	✓
Write features to feature table		✓	✓
Update description of feature table		✓	✓
Modify permissions			✓
Delete feature table			✓

File ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
Read file	✓	✓	✓	✓
Comment	✓	✓	✓	✓
Attach and detach file		✓	✓	✓
Run file interactively		✓	✓	✓
Edit file			✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓

note

The workspace UI refers to view-only access as CAN VIEW, while the Permissions API uses CAN READ to represent the same level of access.

Folder ACLs

Ability	NO PERMISSIONS	CAN VIEW	CAN EDIT	CAN RUN	CAN MANAGE
List objects in folder	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
View objects in folder		✓	✓	✓	✓
Clone and export items			✓	✓	✓
Run objects in the folder				✓	✓
Create, import, and delete items					✓
Move and rename items					✓
Modify permissions					✓

note

The workspace UI refers to view-only access as CAN VIEW, while the Permissions API uses CAN READ to represent the same level of access.

Genie space ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW/CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
See in Genie space list	✓	✓	✓
Ask Genie questions	✓	✓	✓
Provide response feedback	✓	✓	✓
Add or edit Genie instructions		✓	✓
Add or edit sample questions		✓	✓
Add or remove included tables		✓	✓
Monitor a space			✓
Modify permissions			✓
Delete space			✓
View other users' conversations			✓

Git folder ACLs

Ability	NO PERMISSIONS	CAN READ	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
List assets in a folder	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
View assets in a folder		✓	✓	✓	✓
Clone and export assets		✓	✓	✓	✓
Run executable assets in folder			✓	✓	✓
Edit and rename assets in a folder				✓	✓
Create a branch in a folder					✓
Switch branches in a folder					✓
Pull or push a branch into a folder					✓
Create, import, delete, and move assets					✓
Modify permissions					✓

Job ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN MANAGE RUN	IS OWNER	CAN MANAGE
View job details and settings	✓	✓	✓	✓
View results	✓	✓	✓	✓
View Spark UI, logs of a job run		✓	✓	✓
Run now		✓	✓	✓
Cancel run		✓	✓	✓
Edit job settings			✓	✓
Delete job			✓	✓
Modify permissions			✓	✓

note

The creator of a job has the IS OWNER permission by default.
A job cannot have more than one owner.
A group cannot be assigned the Is Owner permission as an owner.
Jobs triggered through Run Now assume the permissions of the job owner and not the user who issued Run Now.
Jobs access control applies to jobs displayed in the Lakeflow Jobs UI and their runs. It doesn't apply to:
- Notebook workflows that run modular or linked code. These use the permissions of the notebook itself. If the notebook comes from Git, a new copy is created and its files inherit the permissions of the user who triggered the run.
- Jobs submitted by API. These use the notebook's default permissions unless you explicitly set the access_control_list in the API request.

MLflow experiment ACLs

MLflow experiment ACLs are different for notebook experiments and workspace experiments. Notebook experiments cannot be managed independently of the notebook that created them, so the permissions are similar to notebook permissions.

To learn more about the two types of experiments, see Organize training runs with MLflow experiments.

ACLs for notebook experiments

Changing these permissions also modifies the permissions on the notebook that corresponds to the experiment.

Ability	CAN READ	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View notebook	✓	✓	✓	✓
Comment on notebook	✓	✓	✓	✓
Attach/detach notebook to compute		✓	✓	✓
Run commands in the notebook		✓	✓	✓
Edit notebook			✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓

ACLs for workspace experiments

Ability	CAN READ	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View experiment	✓	✓	✓
Log runs to the experiment		✓	✓
Edit the experiment		✓	✓
Delete the experiment			✓
Modify permissions			✓

MLflow model ACLs

This table describes how to control access to registered models in workspaces that are not enabled for Unity Catalog. If your workspace is enabled for Unity Catalog, use Unity Catalog privileges instead.

Ability	CAN READ	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE STAGING VERSIONS	CAN MANAGE PRODUCTION VERSIONS	CAN MANAGE
View model details, versions, stage transition requests, activities, and artifact download URIs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Request a model version stage transition	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Add a version to a model		✓	✓	✓	✓
Update model and version description		✓	✓	✓	✓
Add or edit tags		✓	✓	✓	✓
Transition model version between stages			✓	✓	✓
Approve a transition request			✓	✓	✓
Cancel a transition request					✓
Rename model					✓
Modify permissions					✓
Delete model and model versions					✓

Notebook ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View cells	✓	✓	✓	✓
Comment	✓	✓	✓	✓
Run using %run or notebook workflows	✓	✓	✓	✓
Attach and detach notebooks		✓	✓	✓
Run commands		✓	✓	✓
Edit cells			✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓

note

The workspace UI refers to view-only access as CAN VIEW, while the Permissions API uses CAN READ to represent the same level of access.

Pool ACLs

Ability	CAN ATTACH TO	CAN MANAGE
Attach cluster to pool	✓	✓
Delete pool		✓
Edit pool		✓
Modify permissions		✓

Query ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View own queries	✓	✓	✓	✓
See in query list	✓	✓	✓	✓
View query text	✓	✓	✓	✓
View query result	✓	✓	✓	✓
Refresh query result (or choose different parameters)		✓	✓	✓
Include the query in a dashboard		✓	✓	✓
Change SQL warehouse or data source		✓	✓	✓
Edit query text			✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓
Delete query				✓

Legacy SQL editor query ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN RUN	CAN EDIT	CAN MANAGE
View own queries	✓	✓	✓	✓
See in query list	✓	✓	✓	✓
View query text	✓	✓	✓	✓
View query result	✓	✓	✓	✓
Refresh query result (or choose different parameters)		✓	✓	✓
Include the query in a dashboard		✓	✓	✓
Edit query text			✓	✓
Change SQL warehouse or data source				✓
Modify permissions				✓
Delete query				✓

Secret ACLs

Ability	READ	WRITE	MANAGE
Read the secret scope	✓	✓	✓
List secrets in the scope	✓	✓	✓
Write to the secret scope		✓	✓
Modify permissions			✓

Serving endpoint ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN QUERY	CAN MANAGE
Get endpoint	✓	✓	✓
List endpoint	✓	✓	✓
Query endpoint		✓	✓
Update endpoint config			✓
Delete endpoint			✓
Modify permissions			✓

SQL warehouse ACLs

Ability	CAN VIEW	CAN MONITOR	CAN USE	IS OWNER	CAN MANAGE
Start the warehouse		✓	✓	✓	✓
View warehouse details	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
View warehouse queries	✓	✓		✓	✓
Run queries		✓	✓	✓	✓
View warehouse monitoring tab	✓	✓		✓	✓
Stop the warehouse				✓	✓
Delete the warehouse				✓	✓
Edit the warehouse				✓	✓
Modify permissions				✓	✓

Vector search endpoint ACLs

Ability	CAN CREATE	CAN USE	CAN MANAGE
Get endpoint	✓	✓	✓
List endpoints	✓	✓	✓
Create endpoint	✓	✓	✓
Use endpoint (create index)		✓	✓
Delete endpoint			✓
Modify permissions			✓