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How to make Databricks ring your phone

To make Databricks ring your team's phones, make an 馃敭 Anything alarm in LFG Alarm, add its private link to Databricks as a Webhook notification destination, and attach that to a SQL alert or a job. When revenue drops, a metric spikes or a pipeline fails, every phone on the alarm rings like an alarm clock, even at 3am. Your Databricks agents can also set and manage alarms through LFG Alarm's MCP server. LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone and Android, plus lfg.gm in a desktop browser.

LFG Alarm guides 路 Updated 路 Plain copy for agents

Also called: Databricks alert to phone 路 Databricks job failure alarm 路 Databricks SQL alert webhook 路 Databricks MCP server

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Before you start

  • Get the LFG Alarm app on your phone from Google Play or the App Store, and sign in. Databricks triggers the alarm; your phone does the ringing.
  • An LFG Alarm plan that includes Anything alarms. See the plans on lfg.gm.
  • A workspace admin to add the notification destination.

Make the alarm

  1. In LFG Alarm, on Alarms, tap 馃敭 Anything.
  2. Name it for what it means, for example "Revenue dropped" or "Nightly job failed". The ring screen shows the alarm's name and nothing from Databricks, so pick a name that says what happened.
  3. Pick a Cooldown: how long it stays quiet after it rings, from 1 minute to 1 hour. That way an alert that keeps firing only rings once.
  4. Share it with whoever is on call, and tap Arm it.
  5. On the link card, tap Copy. It starts with https://api.lfg.gm/horn/. Keep it private: anyone with it can ring the alarm.

Add it as a notification destination

  1. A workspace admin opens Settings, then Notifications, then Notification destinations, and chooses Add destination.
  2. Type: Webhook. Name: LFG Alarm: Revenue dropped. Authentication mode: No Auth. URL: the alarm's link.
  3. Click Create.

Create a new destination in Databricks: Type Webhook, a name, Authentication mode No Auth, and the alarm's link as the URL
Create a new destination in Databricks: Type Webhook, a name, Authentication mode No Auth, and the alarm's link as the URL

Ring when a SQL alert fires

  1. Open the SQL alert, then Notifications.
  2. Add the LFG Alarm destination and save.

When the alert's condition is met, Databricks posts to the link and every phone on the alarm rings.

Ring when a job or pipeline fails

In the job's Job notifications, add the same destination under Failure. You can also add it under Success, Start or Duration warning, for example to get rung when a long backfill finally finishes.

Let your Databricks agents use LFG Alarm

Databricks can connect to outside MCP servers, and LFG Alarm has one at https://mcp.lfg.gm.

  1. In the workspace, open Unity Gateway, select MCPs, click + MCP and choose Connect an existing MCP server.
  2. Pick a catalog and schema, and name it lfg_alarm. The name can't be changed later.
  3. Click Create new connection, enter https://mcp.lfg.gm, and choose OAuth. Or choose bearer auth with a personal key from the app's Settings, AI apps and keys.
  4. Click Create & load tools, then Login to sign in to LFG Alarm once, pick the tools to expose, and click Create MCP Service.
  5. Test it in AI Playground: Tools, + Add tool, MCP Servers, External MCP servers, then the LFG one. Ask it to list your alarms.

This needs a Unity Catalog workspace in a region with Model Serving, and the CREATE SERVICE and CREATE CONNECTION permissions on the schema.

Let your AI set it up

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Have your AI agent make it.

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or any AI agent that can add a connector, not into the LFG Alarm app. The setup steps come with it: get the LFG Alarm app, connect it to your agent once, and your agent makes the alarm in your account.

Use LFG Alarm to make an Anything alarm called "Nightly job failed" with 30 minutes of quiet time, add [the on-call teammate's LFG Alarm username], and give me its link. Then tell me how to add it as a Webhook notification destination in Databricks and attach it to my job's Failure notifications.

Already have the LFG Alarm app and connected it to your AI agent?

Why it works. One request makes and shares the alarm, and your AI walks you through the Databricks side. Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app first: see [AI agents](/agents).

If it does not work

  • The destination test fails. Copy the link again from the alarm's link card: it must start with https://api.lfg.gm/horn/.
  • The alert fired but nobody's phone rang. The ring may have fallen inside the alarm's cooldown, or the people on it have not joined yet.
  • The MCP tools don't load. Check the workspace has Unity Catalog and Model Serving in its region, and that you have CREATE SERVICE and CREATE CONNECTION.
  • Still stuck? Write to us from the support page.

Learn more

Sources and further reading

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with Databricks.

questions people ask
Does LFG Alarm see my data?

No. A webhook destination only sends the alert to the link, and the ring screen never shows it. Through the MCP server, your agent only sends what it chooses to.

Can one alert ring the whole on-call team?

Yes. Everyone who joined the alarm hears it.

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