← Creating Dashboards and Visualizations in Databricks
16% domain · module 3
Permissions, embed, scheduled refresh, and alerts
Starts at 2:35:05 in this video — SQL Warehouse full course — alerts (2:35:05)
Share three ways (outline)
Configure permissions in the UI to share with:
- Workspace users/groups
- External users via shareable links
- Embed in external apps
Consumers still need SELECT (and USE) on underlying UC objects. A link without table grants shows empty/failed widgets.
Draft vs published: most consumers should open published.
Scheduled refresh
Bind a warehouse and a schedule so KPIs are not only computed on open.
Alerts
SQL alerts run a query, compare to a threshold, and notify a destination (email, Slack, webhook). For “average temperature last 15 minutes exceeds X”, the alert query must compute that average — a dashboard you glance at is not an alert.
Keep the alert result small (one metric row), not a million-row dump.