azure-data-factorydatabricksazure-databrickslookuphive-metastore

ADF Pipeline Scheduled Hourly Fails Occasionally with Lookup Activity Fetching Last Ingested Date from Databricks Catalog


We have scheduled an ADF (Azure Data Factory) pipeline that contains a Lookup activity, which is responsible for fetching the last ingested date from the Databricks catalog(Hive metastore). This pipeline is scheduled to run on an hourly basis, but sometimes it fails with the following error:enter image description here

we increased timeout and cluster configuration. lookup activity configuration enter image description here


Solution

  • ErrorCode=FailedToReadFromAzureDatabricksDeltaLake,Failed to read from azure databricks delta lake.
    Error message : Failed to send request to Azure Databricks Cluster
    

    The above error may occur during heavy load of data, also it can be network error or fluctuations. To resolve the error here are some steps:

    As @Ganesh Chandrasekaran said if it's an Enterprise account, please open an Azure support ticket with Databricks Engineering.

    For more information you can refer to this.