Databricks Cluster Forensics | Agent Skills Atlas

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Diagnose broken or unexplained Databricks compute — slow cold starts, failed cluster launches, Photon paying its premium without the speedup, DBR-upgrade landmines, and spot-interruption shuffle aborts — by correlating a cluster's live event stream across API surfaces. Use when a Databricks cluster won't start, died mid-run, is randomly slow to start, when planning a Databricks Runtime upgrade, or when a job keeps failing on spot loss. Trigger with "databricks cluster won't start", "cluster failed", "why is my cluster slow", "NPIPTUNNELSETUPFAILURE", "databricks runtime upgrade", "photon not helping".

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databricks-cluster-forensics

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Diagnose broken or unexplained Databricks compute — slow cold starts, failed cluster launches, Photon paying its premium without the speedup, DBR-upgrade landmines, and spot-interruption shuffle aborts — by correlating a cluster's live event stream across API surfaces. Use when a Databricks cluster won't start, died mid-run, is randomly slow to start, when planning a Databricks Runtime upgrade, or when a job keeps failing on spot loss. Trigger with "databricks cluster won't start", "cluster failed", "why is my cluster slow", "NPIP_TUNNEL_SETUP_FAILURE", "databricks runtime upgrade", "photon not helping".

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Category: General
Reported license: MIT
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.