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Getting Started with Digital Tap AI

Go from signup to seeing your first waste report in under 5 minutes. Digital Tap AI analyzes your cloud compute infrastructure and eliminates waste — saving you 30-50% on Databricks.

Prerequisites

5-Step Setup

1

Create Your Account

Sign up at digitaltap.ai/signup. No credit card required for the free tier (up to 5 clusters).

2

Connect Your Platform

After signing up, the + Connect Platform form opens. Choose Databricks and paste the workspace URL and the service principal's client ID and client secret. Digital Tap checks they work before storing them, and stores them encrypted (Fernet: AES-128-CBC with an HMAC-SHA256 tag).

3

Run Your First Scan

Digital Tap automatically scans your clusters, analyzes utilization patterns, and identifies waste. This typically takes 10-30 seconds.

4

Review Your Waste Report

See your estimated savings instantly — broken down by idle cluster hibernation, right-sizing, spot instance migration, and schedule-based scaling.

5

Activate Optimization

Choose your optimization level (Conservative, Balanced, or Aggressive) and let Digital Tap start saving you money. You can change this anytime.

Platform-Specific Guides

Digital Tap connects to Databricks today. Amazon EMR, Azure Synapse, Google Dataproc and Kubernetes will follow as each meets our integration standard.

Optimization Levels

💡 Tip: We recommend starting with Balanced mode. It auto-hibernates clearly idle clusters while alerting you before bigger changes. You can always increase aggressiveness later.

Conservative

Monitor only. Digital Tap analyzes your infrastructure and provides recommendations, but makes no automated changes. You review and apply each optimization manually from the dashboard.

Balanced (Recommended)

Auto-hibernates idle clusters and sends alerts for right-sizing and other bigger changes. Best balance of savings and safety for most teams.

Aggressive

Full automation: hibernation, right-sizing, spot instance migration, predictive scaling, and schedule-based optimization. Maximum savings with minimal manual intervention.

Billing

Digital Tap AI uses a simple pay-for-performance model:

Next Steps

🎉 Ready to start? Launch the onboarding wizard →