How to Visualize and Explore Your Datalake: Databricks Enterprise Data Source for Grafana

Ready to bring your Databricks data lakehouse to life? In this Grafana quick start, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Databricks to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin, available on all tiers — including Cloud Free.

We’ll cover:
✅ Setting up the Databricks data source
✅ Retrieving your Host, HTTP Path, and Token from the Databricks App
✅ Exploring data with SQL builder and custom queries in Grafana
✅ Creating a cross functional dashboard using live Databricks data

Whether you're a data engineer, analyst, or dashboard enthusiast, this guide makes it easy to unify your data lakehouse with observability and monitoring tools in Grafana.

Chapters:

0:00 Plugin overview + Cloud Free support

0:30 Installing the Databricks Plugin in Grafana Cloud

01:00 Getting Databricks credentials

02:52 Exploring Databricks data in Grafana

03:58 Creating a Grafana Dashboard with Databricks data

05:58 Visualizing Databricks Usage & Costs

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