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Navigate the workspace

This article walks you through the Azure Databricks workspace UI, an environment for accessing all of your Azure Databricks objects.

You can manage the workspace using the workspace UI, the Databricks CLI, and the Workspace API. Most of the articles in the Azure Databricks documentation focus on performing tasks using the workspace UI.

Homepage

The following sections of the workspace homepage provide shortcuts to common tasks and workspace objects to help you onboard to and navigate the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform:

Get started

This section provides shortcuts to the following common tasks across product areas:

  • Import data using the Create or modify table from file upload page
  • Create a notebook
  • Create a query
  • Configure an AutoML experiment

Note

The tiles that display on your homepage depend on your assigned entitlements.

Recents

This section displays your recently viewed objects across product areas, including files, notebooks, experiments, queries, dashboards, alerts, and Unity Catalog objects.

You can also access recents from the sidebar and from the search bar.

Popular

This section displays objects with the most user interactions in the last 30 days across product areas, including files, notebooks, experiments, queries, dashboards, and alerts.

The following common Databricks Data Intelligence Platform categories are visible at the top of the sidebar:

  • Notebook icon. Workspace
  • Clock icon. Recents
  • Data icon. Catalog
  • Workflows icon. Jobs & Pipelines
  • Cloud icon. Compute
  • Storefront icon. Marketplace

Note

There is a lock icon next to items that require an entitlement you aren't assigned.

The features in the following sections are also always visible in the sidebar, grouped by product area:

SQL

  • Query editor icon. SQL Editor
  • Query icon. Queries
  • Dashboard icon. Dashboards
  • Sparkle rectangle icon. Genie
  • Notification icon. Alerts
  • History icon. Query History
  • Cloud database icon. SQL Warehouses

Data Engineering

  • Checklist icon. Job Runs
  • Ingestion icon. Data Ingestion

Machine Learning

  • Robot icon. Playground
  • Grid icon. AI Builder (Beta)
  • Beaker icon. Experiments
  • Layer icon. Features
  • Models icon. Models
  • Cloud model icon. Serving

+ New menu

Click + New to complete the following tasks:

  • Create workspace objects such as notebooks, queries, repos, dashboards, alerts, jobs, pipelines, experiments, models, and serving endpoints.
  • Create compute resources such as clusters, SQL warehouses, and ML endpoints.
  • Upload CSV or TSV files to Delta Lake using the Create or modify table from file upload page or load data from various data sources using the add data UI.

Full-page workspace browser

The full-page workspace browser experience unifies Workspace and Git folders. You can browse content in Databricks Git folders alongside workspace objects by clicking Workspace in the sidebar.

Unified filebrowser with workspace objects Git folders content

You can also browse workspace content and Git folders content from within a notebook using a contextual browser.

Notebook contextual browser

Use the top bar to search for workspace objects such as notebooks, queries, dashboards, alerts, files, folders, libraries, tables registered in Unity Catalog, jobs, and repos in a single place. You can also access recently viewed objects in the search bar. For more information about search features, see Search for workspace objects.

Workspace admin and user settings

Workspace admin and workspace user settings are unified across product areas. SQL settings are combined with general settings to create a unified experience for admin and non-admin users.

All workspace admin settings are now accessed from Settings.

All workspace user settings are now accessed from Settings.

  • The Password setting is on the Profile tab.
  • SQL query snippets (Settings > Developer) is visible to users with the Databricks SQL access entitlement.

Switch to a different workspace

If you have access to more than one workspace in the same account, you can quickly switch among them.

  1. Click the workspace name in the top bar of the Azure Databricks workspace.
  2. Select a workspace from the drop-down to switch to it.

Change the workspace language settings

The workspace is available in multiple languages. To change the workspace language, click your username in the top navigation bar, select Settings and go to the Preferences tab.

Get help

This section describes the in-product help experience.

Click Help Icon in the top bar of the workspace to access the in-product help experience (Public Preview). In-product help provides the following resources:

  • Send Feedback: Use the feedback form to submit product feedback from your workspace. See Submit product feedback.

  • Help Center: Search across Azure Databricks documentation, Azure Databricks Knowledge Base articles, Apache Spark documentation, training courses, and Azure Databricks forums, or submit a help ticket.

  • If an account admin has completed the following steps to enable third-party services for AI assistive features, you can enter a question in the text box for the AI chatbot.

    1. As an account admin, log in to the account console.
    2. Click Settings Settings icon.
    3. Click the Features tab.
    4. Toggle Enable Azure AI services-powered features to Enable for all.

    The AI chatbot is intended to help quickly answer questions that can be answered with Databricks documentation and knowledge bases. Its answers are based on documentation that the AI can find related to the question. If it cannot find documentation related to the user question, it declines to answer. Results include a link to any documentation used to answer the question. The AI is new so mistakes are possible. Make sure to check the facts with the linked documentation, and share feedback.