Distinguish active and dead jobs

Learn how to distinguish between active and dead Databricks jobs....

Spark job fails with Driver is temporarily unavailable

Job failure due to Driver being unavailable or unresponsive....

How to delete all jobs using the REST API

Learn how to delete all Databricks jobs using the REST API....

Identify less used jobs

Identify rarely used and less used jobs in a workspace and delete them in order to stay under the job limit....

Job cluster limits on notebook output

Job clusters have a maximum notebook output size of 20 MB. If the output is larger, it results in an error....

Job fails, but Apache Spark tasks finish

Your job fails, but all of the Apache Spark tasks have completed successfully. You are using spark.stop() or System.exit(0) in your code....

Job fails due to job rate limit

Learn how to resolve Databricks job failures due to job rate limits....

Create table in overwrite mode fails when interrupted

Learn how to troubleshoot failures that occur when you rerun an Apache Spark write operation by cancelling the currently running job....

Apache Spark Jobs hang due to non-deterministic custom UDF

Learn what to do when your Apache Spark job hangs due to a non-deterministic custom UDF....

Apache Spark job fails with Failed to parse byte string

Apache Spark job fails with a Failed to parse byte string error....

Apache Spark UI shows wrong number of jobs

Apache Spark UI shows the wrong number of active jobs....

Job fails with atypical errors message

Job run is throttled and fails due to observing atypical errors message....

Apache Spark job fails with maxResultSize exception

Learn what to do when an Apache Spark job fails with a maxResultSize exception....

Databricks job fails because library is not installed

Learn how to prevent Databricks jobs from failing due to uninstalled libraries....

Job failure due to Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) CREATE limits

Learn what to do when your Databricks job fails due to Azure Data Lake Storage CREATE limits....

Job fails with invalid access token

Jobs that run more than 48 hours fail with invalid access token error when the dbutils token expires....

How to ensure idempotency for jobs

Learn how to ensure that jobs submitted through the Databricks REST API aren't duplicated if there is a retry after a request times out....

Monitor running jobs with a Job Run dashboard

Learn about using the Job Run dashboard in a workspace....

Streaming job has degraded performance

Streaming job has poor performance after stopping and restarting from same checkpoint....

Task deserialization time is high

Configure cluster-installed libraries to install on executors at cluster launch vs executor launch to speed up your job task runs....

Pass arguments to a notebook as a list

Use a JSON file to temporarily store arguments that you want to use in your notebook....

Uncommitted files causing data duplication

Partially uncommitted files from a failed write can result in apparent data duplication. Adjust VACUUM settings to resolve the issue....

Multi-task workflows using incorrect parameter values

If parallel tasks running on the same cluster use Scala companion objects the wrong values can be used due to sharing a single class in the JVM....

Job fails with Spark Shuffle FetchFailedException error

Disable the default Spark Shuffle service to work around a FetchFailedException error....

Users unable to view job results when using remote Git source

Databricks does not manage permission for remote repos, so you must sync changes with a local notebook so non-admin users can view results....

Single scheduled job tries to run multiple times

Ensure your cron syntax is correct when scheduling jobs. A wildcard in the wrong space can produce unexpected results....

Jobs failing with shuffle fetch failures

Shuffle fetch failures can happen if you have modified the Azure Databricks subnet CIDR range after deployment....

Add custom tags to a Delta Live Tables pipeline

Manually edit the JSON configuration file to add custom tags....

Update notification settings for jobs with the Jobs API

You can use the Jobs API to add email notifications to some, or all, of the jobs in your workspace....

Spark image download failure error message

Learn how to troubleshoot the Spark image download failure error message....

Python kernel is unresponsive error message

Learn how to identify and troubleshoot the cause of an unresponsive Python kernel error....

Stop all scheduled jobs

Use the included sample code to stop all of your scheduled jobs in the workspace....