LakeSentry

LakeSentry is a cost intelligence platform built specifically for Databricks. It gives platform engineering and FinOps teams full visibility into where every Databricks dollar goes — with automatic cost attribution by team, job, workspace, and user, with no manual tagging required. Beyond dashboards, LakeSentry proactively detects cost anomalies and waste — idle clusters, oversized instances, inefficient jobs — and surfaces them with the context teams need to act. Optimization follows a safe, progressive path: observe in shadow mode, approve manually, then move to guarded automation once you trust it. Pricing is flat — no per-DBU tax, no per-workspace fees — so cost intelligence doesn't scale its own bill against you. LakeSentry connects read-only by default via a service principal with minimal permissions. The value isn't a one-time cleanup; it's ongoing visibility and control over Databricks spend.