Databricks Field Guide

Databricks features

Databricks features, one page each.

What each feature does, how you use it, and where it stands. The release stage on every page comes from Databricks' own documentation and release notes, with the date and the sentence it came from, and is checked again as Databricks moves it.

Recent stage changes

The features whose release stage Databricks changed most recently, from 359 we track, last read 8 October 2026. The full register, with search demand and where the Field Guide covers each, is at /features/coverage.json.

FeatureStageSince
AI Runtime 1xH100 accelerator Public Preview
ai_detect_anomalies Beta
ai_predict_class Beta
ai_predict_value Beta
ai_top_drivers Beta
Cross-workspace access for serverless Beta
Databricks Genie app in Microsoft Teams Public Preview
Diagnose and fix Lakebase issues with Genie, using telemetry in Unity Catalog Beta
Enforce partner guardrails with external service policies Beta
Genie Code Beta
Governance Hub Beta
Governed tags system table Beta
Lakehouse Replay Public Preview
Private Link for account-level resources Beta
Real-time mode in Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow, and the update_flow API Public Preview
Spark Declarative Pipelines on Lakeflow environment versions Public Preview
Unit testing for pipelines Beta
Workiva connector Beta
Agent Bricks CLI Beta
Connect Genie to Microsoft Copilot Cowork Beta
AI Runtime Public Preview
Genie Code CLI Beta
GitLab connector Beta
Lakehouse Real-Time Beta
Managed agent memory Beta
Meta Ads connector Beta
Schedule automatic data refresh in the Databricks Excel Add-in Public Preview
Serve custom LLMs with Custom Model Serving Public Preview
Anomaly detection Public Preview
Ingest Salesforce formula fields incrementally Beta
Nanosecond-precision timestamps Beta
AI Runtime CLI Public Preview
JDBC Unity Catalog connection Generally available
Create alerts for anomaly detection in the Data Quality Monitoring UI Beta
Cross-engine attribute-based access controls (ABAC) Generally available
Databricks Genie app for Slack Public Preview
Lakebase OpenTelemetry export Beta
Databricks Container Services for standard compute Beta
GitHub managed ingestion connector Beta
Query tags for SQL warehouses Generally available