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Unravel User interface tour

After you sign in to Unravel, you will see the following menus at the top:

Menus (Databricks)

Description

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Access detailed insights and analytics on your cloud environment, including cost management overviews and usage metrics.

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Monitor, understand, and optimize clusters and jobs to manage cloud expenses

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Compute and Workflows

  • Check if you are responsible for writing Databricks jobs.

  • Understand the reason for your job failure and the reason for the job running slow

  • Understand if you have selected the correct driver or worker types

  • Know whether you should be using auto-scaling. Understand if there is a problem with Azure, AWS, or GCP.

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Know information such as metadata, KPIs, and insights about tables and partitions

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  • Schedule regular reports to be generated and emailed automatically

  • Track top users and applications

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AutoActions are applicable at the cluster and application levels:

  • Cluster level: Automate the monitoring of your compute cluster by allowing you to define complex, actionable rules on different cluster metrics.

  • Application level: Set to automatically kill an app or move it to a different queue.

Search bar

Search bar

Description

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Search for an application name, application type, or user name. The search is case-insensitive.

Examples:

  • Application name: application_1661849569325_6440

  • Application type: Spark

  • User name: jsmith

For wildcard search, you can use an asterisk (*) at the end of the text you search for. For example, (spark*).

Context menu

You can click various elements on the upper-right corner of the window to see the actions available.

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Description

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Use to install and manage apps. Generate reports of executive KPIs (cluster usage KPIs, including for YARN and Impala).

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Expand to view various management options.

  • Daemons: View daemons that are enabled for Unravel. You can also check the message (Info, Progress, Error, and Fatal) count information. See Unravel Daemons.Unravel Daemons

  • Stats: View database statistics and Elasticsearch details, such as the status of an Elasticsearch cluster, total size, and the number of indexes.

  • Run Diagnostics: Load and view the latest diagnostics log. You can also download the diagnostics.txt file.

  • Monitoring: Monitor information such as Partition Info, DB Status, DB Performance, Kafka (topic by consumer group), Zookeeper (host details), and Elastic (nodes and cluster health).

  • API Tokens: Create tokens for API token authorization. See API authorization token.

  • Audit: Track audit events. See Audit.

  • Notification channels: Set up a channel with users to receive alerts when the status of the budget changes to EXCEEDED or AT_RISK. See Notification channels .

  • Workspaces (only for Databricks): Add and set up your workspace. See Workspaces.

  • Unravel Billing (only for Databricks): View and generate the billing report. See Billing service (Databricks).

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Expand to view the following list of options:

  • Support Portal: Navigate to the Unravel customer support portal.

  • Send Feedback: Send your feedback or share your ideas.

  • Documentation: View the online Help of Unravel documentation.

  • About: View the version of Unravel and its components.

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Expand to view the following list of options:

  • Copy Login Token: Copy the login token.

  • Logout: Log out of Unravel.

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