Connect to Fivetran

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Fivetran automated data integration adapts as schemas and APIs change, ensuring reliable data access and simplified analysis with ready-to-query schemas.

You can integrate your Databricks SQL warehouses (formerly Databricks SQL endpoints) and Azure Databricks clusters with Fivetran. The Fivetran integration with Azure Databricks helps you centralize data from disparate data sources into Delta Lake.

Connect to Fivetran manually

Before you connect manually

Before you connect to Fivetran manually, you must have the following:

  • A cluster or SQL warehouse in your Azure Databricks workspace.

  • The connection details for your cluster or SQL warehouse, specifically the Server Hostname, Port, and HTTP Path values.

  • An Azure Databricks personal access token or a Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) token.. To create a personal access token, do the following:

    1. In your Azure Databricks workspace, click your Azure Databricks username in the top bar, and then select Settings from the drop down.
    2. Click Developer.
    3. Next to Access tokens, click Manage.
    4. Click Generate new token.
    5. (Optional) Enter a comment that helps you to identify this token in the future, and change the token's default lifetime of 90 days. To create a token with no lifetime (not recommended), leave the Lifetime (days) box empty (blank).
    6. Click Generate.
    7. Copy the displayed token to a secure location, and then click Done.

    Note

    Be sure to save the copied token in a secure location. Do not share your copied token with others. If you lose the copied token, you cannot regenerate that exact same token. Instead, you must repeat this procedure to create a new token. If you lose the copied token, or you believe that the token has been compromised, Databricks strongly recommends that you immediately delete that token from your workspace by clicking the trash can (Revoke) icon next to the token on the Access tokens page.

    If you are not able to create or use tokens in your workspace, this might be because your workspace administrator has disabled tokens or has not given you permission to create or use tokens. See your workspace administrator or the following topics:

    Note

    As a security best practice, when you authenticate with automated tools, systems, scripts, and apps, Databricks recommends that you use personal access tokens belonging to service principals instead of workspace users. To create tokens for service principals, see Manage tokens for a service principal.

Manual steps

To connect to Fivetran manually, do the following:

  1. Sign in to your Fivetran account, or create a new Fivetran account, at https://fivetran.com/login.

    Important

    If you sign in to your organization's Fivetran account, a Choose Destination page may display, listing one or more existing destination entries with the Databricks logo. These entries might contain connection details for compute resources in workspaces that are separate from yours. If you still want to reuse one of these connections, and you trust the compute resource and have access to it, choose that destination and then skip ahead to next steps. Otherwise, choose any available destination to get past this page.

  2. In your Dashboard page in Fivetran, click the Destinations tab.

  3. Click Add Destination.

  4. Enter a Destination name and click Add.

  5. On the Fivetran is modern ELT page, click Set up a connector.

  6. Click a data source, and then click Next.

  7. Follow the on-screen instructions in the Setup Guide in Fivetran to finish setting up the connector.

  8. Click Save & Test.

  9. After the test succeeds, click Continue.

  10. On the Select your data's destination page, click Databricks on Azure.

  11. Click Continue Setup.

  12. Complete the on-screen instructions in Fivetran to enter the connection details for your existing Azure Databricks compute resource, specifically the Server Hostname and HTTP Path field values, and the token that you generated earlier.

  13. Click Save & Test.

  14. After the test succeeeds, click Continue.

  15. Continue to next steps.

Additional resources

Explore one or more of the following resources on the Fivetran website: