# How to make Databricks ring your phone

Builders · https://lfg.gm/databricks-phone-alarm · Updated 2026-10-25

To make Databricks ring your team's phones, make an **🔮 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.

## 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 **🔮 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](https://lfg.gm/agents/shots/databricks-webhook-destination.jpg)

## 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

**Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone.

> 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.

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](https://lfg.gm/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](https://lfg.gm/support).

## Questions

### 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.

## Learn more

- [The Anything alarm](https://lfg.gm/webhook-alarm)
- [Phone alarms for founders and solo developers](https://lfg.gm/alerts-for-founders)
- [Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app](https://lfg.gm/agents)
- [For developers](https://lfg.gm/developers)

## Sources and further reading

- [Databricks docs: Manage notification destinations](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/workspace-settings/notification-destinations)
- [Databricks docs: Databricks SQL alerts](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/sql/user/alerts/)
- [Databricks docs: External MCP servers](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ai-gateway/register-mcp-service)

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with Databricks.

## Keep exploring

- [Website change alerts: how to get an alarm when something happens online](https://lfg.gm/alert-when-something-happens-online.md): Point a website change monitor, an uptime monitor, Zapier, IFTTT, GitHub Actions or a cron script at an Anything alarm’s link and it rings your phone.
- [Ring your team's phones from monday.com](https://lfg.gm/monday.md): Add LFG Alarm to monday.com and end an automation with Ring an LFG alarm, so a Stuck status, a closed deal or an urgent ticket rings every phone on the alarm.
- [How to make Airtable ring your phone](https://lfg.gm/airtable-phone-alarm.md): An Airtable automation's Run script action calls an Anything alarm's link, so a big deal or an urgent ticket rings every phone on the alarm; Rocco's finds can land as new rows.
- [How to make ClickUp ring your phone](https://lfg.gm/clickup-phone-alarm.md): A ClickUp Automation's Call webhook action rings an Anything alarm, so an Urgent task, a blocked status or a due date rings every phone on it; ClickUp's AI can use LFG Alarm through MCP.
- [How to make any app, script or feed ring your phone](https://lfg.gm/webhook-alarm.md): An Anything alarm is a private link that rings you, and your friends, whenever something calls it.
- [How to make Zapier ring your phone](https://lfg.gm/zapier-phone-alarm.md): End a Zap with a Webhooks by Zapier POST to an Anything alarm's link, add a filter, and only what matters rings you and your team.

## About LFG Alarm

LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, keeps watch and wakes you up.

- Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app
- Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085
- Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words.
- Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt