Technologies/Apache Spark/spark_executor_count_tasks
Apache SparkApache SparkMetric

spark_executor_count_tasks

Total number of tasks in the application's executors
Dimensions:None
Available on:DatadogDatadog (1)
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DatadogDatadog
Total number of tasks in the application's executors
Dimensions:None
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Autoscaling Lag During Load Spikeswarning

Databricks autoscaling takes 3-5 minutes to provision new VMs during demand spikes, causing queued tasks and degraded performance while pending tasks exceed available executor cores.