deprecated
Ganglia metrics
Ganglia metrics is deprecated, replaced by Compute metrics (deprecated April 2023).
Ganglia metrics Compute metrics
The Ganglia distributed-monitoring system bundled on classic clusters, surfaced as a Ganglia UI link and a list of historical snapshots on the cluster's Metrics tab for watching hardware performance and health.
- It arrived on Azure Databricks in the July 2019 platform release (version 2.101), advertised as a way to monitor cluster performance and health straight from the cluster details page.
- Its historical view was a list of snapshots taken every 15 minutes, so a job that finished in 14 could leave behind exactly zero metrics files.
- It only ever measured Spark container consumption, so whatever else a node was busy doing simply never appeared on its graphs.
Limitations: Only available on Databricks Runtime 12.2 LTS and below on AWS and Azure and never on Google Cloud; snapshots are taken every 15 minutes by default, adjustable through the DATABRICKS_GANGLIA_SNAPSHOT_PERIOD_MINUTES cluster environment variable.
Open in REbricked →- Category
- Compute / BI
- Also known as
- Ganglia, Ganglia UI
- Verified
- 2026-09-11