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Adding Workspaces

Workspaces are added through the onboarding wizard, launched from the Workspaces page (Launch onboarding on an empty page, New workspace afterwards). The button disappears behind a "Limit reached" badge when you hit your plan's workspace limit; capacity is adjusted from billing.

The wizard walks through 5 steps:

  1. Pick cloud: choose Azure or AWS
  2. Create service principal credential: create a new credential or reuse an existing one
  3. Add workspaces: auto-discover, or enter workspaces manually
  4. Configure coverage (optional): assign a profile and schedule to the new workspaces
  5. Review and finish: confirm

Step 1 of the onboarding wizard: picking the cloud provider

Step 2 of the onboarding wizard: selecting or creating a credential

Auto-Discovery (Azure)​

With an Azure credential that has subscription-level access, Kostavo queries Azure Resource Manager and lists every Databricks workspace the service principal can read. Tick the ones to enroll.

Already-connected workspaces are filtered out automatically, so an empty discovery list on a mature account can simply mean there is nothing new.

Manual and Batch Entry​

When discovery is unavailable (AWS, or Azure credentials without subscription scope), enter workspaces yourself in the same wizard step:

  • Single workspace: name plus host URL
  • Batch: paste a list of entries; Kostavo creates them in bulk and reports success or failure per workspace

After Adding Workspaces​

The wizard ends by triggering an initial scan. A workspace is connected at this point, but not yet governed:

The workspaces page after enrollment

To start monitoring, assign a policy profile. Without an assignment, no policies run against the workspace, and it shows up as not monitored on the dashboard.

You can also:

  • Apply tags to organize workspaces for filtering and automation (see Workspace tags)
  • Set up tag rules to auto-assign profiles based on tags (see Tag rules)