Unity Gateway external service policies
In Beta, an external service policy on Unity Gateway forwards request and response content to a third-party guardrail vendor and blocks the call if the vendor denies it.
What Beta promises
Open to most customers but not for production: support runs through engineering, and the shape of it can still move. On by default on Premium, off on Enterprise.
| Who can use it | Most customers |
|---|---|
| Production use | No |
| Support | Engineering only |
| On by default | Premium yes, Enterprise no |
The definitions are Databricks' own, on its release types page. The label on this page is the one the feature's documentation states, last checked on 12 Oct 2026.
Where to read more
It is part of something we wrote up: Guardrails for generative applications — Policies evaluated on the way in and on the way out of a model call, returning allow, deny or ask, plus the data-side masking that stops a prompt carrying what it should not.
The Databricks documentation for Unity Gateway external service policies