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Databricks WAF Light Tooling

One-click install. Instant visibility into how your Databricks Lakehouse scores against the Well-Architected Framework — across 4 pillars, with score history, targeted recommendations, and an AI assistant to answer follow-up questions.

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🎬 Demo¶

Run one notebook. Get all of this.¶

Visibility across all 4 pillars

See how your Lakehouse scores on Reliability, Governance, Cost Optimization, and Performance Efficiency — in real time, from a single dashboard. No manual analysis, no spreadsheets.

Dashboard features
Score history across runs

Every time data reloads, a new data point is recorded. View Progress shows how your WAF scores evolve across runs and pillars — so you can visualise improvement and prove ROI over time.

View Progress
Targeted recommendations

Recommendations (Not Met) lists every failing control with the WAF ID, current score, threshold gap, and the exact action to take — no guesswork, no digging through docs.

Recommendations
AI-powered follow-up questions

Genie is pre-loaded with all 15 WAF tables and pillar-specific instructions. Ask "Which controls are failing and what should I prioritise?" in plain English and get instant answers.

Genie AI Space

See it in action¶

DashboardRecommendationsProgressGenie

WAF Assessment App Dashboard

The Databricks App — your single URL for all WAF Assessment capabilities. Pillar scores, AI Assistant, Recommendations, and Progress all in one place.

WAF Recommendations Not Met

Every failing control — WAF ID, score vs threshold gap, and the exact fix — surfaced automatically. No manual analysis needed.

WAF Recommendations Detail

WAF Assessment Progress

View Progress — WAF scores across all reload runs, broken out by pillar. Visualise how remediations move the needle over time and demonstrate improvement to stakeholders.

WAF Genie Space

Genie AI Space — ask follow-up questions about your WAF data in plain English. Pre-loaded with all 15 WAF tables and ready to use from the moment install completes.

What gets deployed¶

The install notebook deploys a Databricks App — the central hub — backed by four components that work together:

Component	What it does
Databricks App	Central hub — embeds the dashboard and surfaces all capabilities from one URL
Lakeview Dashboard	Real-time WAF scores per pillar with AI Assistant tab
Genie AI Space	Natural-language Q&A over all WAF tables
WAF Reload Job	Refreshes all scores on demand or on schedule

4 pillars. Fully automated.¶

Pillar	What it measures
Reliability	System resilience, backup coverage, recovery posture
Governance	Data governance, access controls, Unity Catalog adoption
Cost Optimization	Compute efficiency, idle resources, right-sizing
Performance Efficiency	Query performance, warehouse utilization, serverless adoption

Why not a custom dashboard?¶

	Custom dashboards	WAF Light Tooling
Setup time	Days–weeks	~10 minutes
Maintenance	Manual	Auto-updated
Score history	Build it yourself	Included — View Progress
Recommendations	Manual analysis	Automated, per-control
AI assistant	Build it yourself	Genie Space — ready on install
Consistency	Varies per customer	Standardized WAF scoring

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