problem deleting Databricks workspace

Question

Hello,

I’m having an issue deleting an Azure Databricks workspace.

The workspace has been stuck in the Deleting state for about 2 days and the deletion never completes.

The deletion was initially triggered through Terraform while replacing the workspace in order to recreate it with VNet Injection.

Terraform eventually failed with:

Error: deleting Workspace: unexpected status 409 (409 Conflict)  ApplianceBeingDeleted: The operation cannot be performed on the appliance 'XXXXXX-001' because it is being deleted.

I also tried deleting the workspace directly from the Azure Portal, but the operation failed.

I then tried the Azure CLI with forced deletion:

az databricks workspace delete `   --name XXXXXXX `   --resource-group rg-XXXXXX `   --force-deletion true `   --yes

but I still receive:

(ApplianceBeingDeleted) The operation cannot be performed on the appliance 'XXXXXXX' because it is being deleted.

Running:

az databricks workspace show `   --name XXX   --resource-group XXX`   --query "provisioningState" `   -o tsv

still returns:

Deleting

The workspace therefore appears to be stuck in the Azure Databricks backend/control plane deletion process.

I have not manually deleted the Databricks managed resource group, as I do not want to leave orphaned resources or make the situation worse.

Is there a supported way to recover or force-clean a Databricks workspace stuck in Deleting / ApplianceBeingDeleted state? Does this require a backend cleanup by Microsoft support?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I think a support request makes sense after two days in Deleting and repeated 409 errors. --force-deletion controls deletion of the workspace catalog and managed resource group, not recovery of a stuck operation.

If the original DELETE returned Azure-AsyncOperation, check its status with GET. Otherwise, use Location if available. Include the result, or the original Activity Log correlation ID and UTC timestamp, when asking whether service-side intervention is needed. Leave the managed resource group untouched.

Answer 2

Hello @Cloud Account ,

Issue: Azure Databricks workspace is stuck in Deleting.

Error: 409 Conflict – ApplianceBeingDeleted: The operation cannot be performed on the appliance because it is being deleted.

Assessment: The deletion has already been accepted and the workspace's provisioning state is Deleting; subsequent deletion attempts are being rejected because that deletion is still in progress.

Next action: Avoid manually deleting the managed resource group. Gather the workspace/resource details and Azure Activity Log entries associated with the failed deletion, then engage Microsoft/Azure Databricks support for investigation of the stuck deletion operation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1332779/azure-databricks

The official Azure CLI does provide az databricks workspace delete, but the Q&A case has already tried that path and still receives ApplianceBeingDeleted.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/databricks/workspace?view=azure-cli-latest

Official reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/admin/workspace/delete-workspace

Regards,

Maraiah