Serverless not showing for my notebooks in Databricks

Question

Hi.

Serverless option is not showing for my notebooks and I cannot even see it in the feature enablement in accounts administration.

In the attached screenshots, you can see that I have unity catalog enable and that serverless does not appear in feature enablement.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

@Mohammed Amine MostefaiWelcome to the Microsoft Q&A forum.

The screenshots you provided show several key features enabled, but the absence of "Serverless" in the Feature Enablement page and the inability to select it for your notebooks indicate that it's likely not available or enabled at a higher level (workspace or account level) that overrides your individual settings.

Here's a breakdown of the troubleshooting steps

1. Verify Workspace Configuration:

• Workspace Type: Serverless compute is not available for all workspace types. Ensure your workspace is eligible for serverless. Classic workspaces, for example, do not support serverless. Contact Databricks support or consult the documentation to confirm if your workspace type supports serverless.
• Workspace Settings: Even if your account has serverless enabled, it might be disabled at the workspace level. You'll need a workspace admin to check the workspace settings related to compute and ensure serverless is permitted.

2. Account-Level Enablement (Most Likely Issue):

• Admin Console: The Feature Enablement page you showed is important, but it primarily controls features you can individually enable. Serverless compute is often managed at the account level by an account admin. The most likely reason you don't see serverless is that your Databricks account administrator needs to enable it for the entire account or at least for your workspace. Reach out to your account admin and ask them to verify the following:
• Serverless is enabled for the account.
• There are no restrictions preventing your workspace or user group from using serverless.

I hope the above steps will resolve the issue, please do let us know if issue persists. Thank you