Deploying and Monitoring Agent Applications on Databricks

This course teaches students how to build production-grade agentic applications on Databricks. Students learn to create governed agent tools using Unity Catalog and MCP, build single and multi-agent systems with the OpenAI Agents SDK, and leverage Agent Bricks and Genie for knowledge-assistant use cases orchestrated with a supervisor agent. The course covers the full progression from tool prototyping to production deployment, with hands-on experience using MLflow tracing to observe agent execution.

Note: Databricks Academy is transitioning to a notebook-based format for classroom sessions within the Databricks environment, discontinuing the use of slide decks for lectures. You can access the lecture notebooks in the Vocareum lab environment.

This course provides hands-on training for building retrieval agents using Databricks Agent Bricks. Participants will learn to explore and query Knowledge Assistants, parse unstructured documents into structured data using AI Functions, chunk text for semantic retrieval, build Vector Search indexes, and create production-ready Knowledge Assistants backed by multiple knowledge sources.

Note: Databricks Academy is transitioning to a notebook-based format for classroom sessions within the Databricks environment, discontinuing the use of slide decks for lectures. You can access the lecture notebooks in the Vocareum lab environment.

This course covers performance optimization, cost control, and security for large-scale data warehousing deployments.This course is designed for Data Warehousing practitioners responsible for managing Databricks environments serving hundreds or thousands of users across multiple business units. You will gain the skills necessary to efficiently scale data warehousing operations while maintaining high performance, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with security standards.

Note: Databricks Academy is transitioning to a notebook-based format for classroom sessions within the Databricks environment, discontinuing the use of slide decks for lectures. You can access the lecture notebooks in the Vocareum lab environment.