Agent Observability access without access to raw agent content
Raw agent content , prompts, completions, tool inputs and outputs, transcripts, and judge rationale , now has its own permission. A user without it still gets the full operational product: summary metrics, span structure, monitors, and alerts.
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Configurable retention for system tables is in Beta
Account admins can now set an account-wide retention period from 30 to 3,650 days for supported system tables. See Configure system table data retention .
External secrets in Unity Catalog (Beta)
External secrets connect a Unity Catalog schema to AWS Secrets Manager. The secrets appear in Unity Catalog as read-only securable objects that you govern with Unity Catalog privileges. Databricks reads their values from AWS Secrets Manager on demand. See External secrets in Unity Catalog .
Celigo connector (Beta)
The Celigo connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit log events, such as create, update, and delete operations on resources, from Celigo (integrator.io) into Databricks. Authentication uses a Celigo integrator.io API token.
Anysphere Organization connector (Beta)
The Anysphere Organization connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Organization Admin API to ingest organization members, groups, and group members into Databricks as daily snapshots.
Anaplan connector (Beta)
The Anaplan connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests audit trail events and user account records from your Anaplan tenant into Databricks. Authentication uses an Anaplan CA certificate and its paired private key. See Anaplan connector .
Openflow gen 1 deployment creation retired
You can no longer create new first generation (gen 1) Openflow deployments (BYOC or Snowflake). All new deployments are second generation (gen 2), created with CREATE OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT or the Openflow UI. Existing gen 1 deployments continue to work unchanged, and you can still create new gen 1 runtimes on an existing gen 1 deployment.
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Arrange your agent's Summary page the way your team reads it
Every widget on an agent's Summary page can now be moved and resized. Drag a widget by its header to reorder it, pull the corner to resize, or use the widget menu to set width (third, half, full) and height (compact, default, tall). Whole sections you don't watch can be collapsed.
Track agent performance across whole conversations, not single turns
Agent metric monitors now run at the conversation grain, not just per span or per trace. Monitor turn count, duration, total tokens, or simply how many conversations happen per bucket. Supported on any connected agent.
Extend your Monte Carlo permissions to alert actions in Slack and Microsoft Teams
Your team can act on alerts from Slack and Microsoft Teams , set status, assign an owner, change severity, snooze. Those actions can now be checked against the users Monte Carlo permissions, so someone can only do from a channel what their role lets them do in the product.
Monitor Snowflake Cortex agents by version
Agent Observability now captures which version of a Snowflake Cortex agent handled each run. Version is available as a segment-by field on agent metric monitors and evaluation monitors, so a single monitor can track latency, tokens, errors, or eval scores per version instead of blending them into on...
Trace Salesforce Data 360 AI and marketing objects in the catalog and lineage
The objects that describe how your Data 360 data gets prepped for AI and pushed out to marketing are now supported in the catalog and in lineage, each with its own group in the Assets tree:
Monitor and trace lineage for Delta Sharing tables
Databricks Delta Sharing catalogs are now supported.
Trace a table back to the job and task that produced it
Job asset pages now show lineage across your ETL and orchestration integrations, including Airflow, Databricks Workflows, Snowflake Tasks, GCP Dataform, Power BI Dataflows, and custom ETL integrations.
See each of the semantic views your agent actually used
The Snowflake Cortex semantic views behind your Cortex agent now surface up in its data lineage. You can see which view an answer came through and which tables sit underneath it, so you can trace an agent all the way back to its source data.