About Kostavo

From people who’ve cleaned up enough Databricks surprises to build a product about it.

Kostavo is a governance, cost-optimisation, and automation platform for organisations running Databricks at scale. We make it simple to optimise costs, enforce access policies, and automate operational tasks across every workspace.

Why we built Kostavo

We built Kostavo from our own experience working hands-on with customers running 10+ Databricks workspaces. The same story kept repeating: teams had powerful compute at their fingertips, but no easy way to catch problems before they became expensive surprises.

Kostavo was incorporated in 2026 to prevent exactly these situations, giving teams the visibility and automated policies to catch problems while they are still small.

Kostavo B.V.
Founded
2026, the Netherlands
Focus
Databricks governance, cost & automation
Customers
B2B, data & analytics teams globally

From the field

Situations we ran into, and built Kostavo to prevent.

Serverless warehouse, always on

A Databricks default S-tier serverless warehouse, left running close to 24/7 for streaming data. The team had never changed the default size. It just kept running.

Rightsized within a day

Provisioned throughput, forgotten

A model serving endpoint with provisioned throughput enabled during development, not even a PoC. Potentially thousands of euros a month, quietly accumulating for five days.

Ran 5 days before caught

€1,000+ from a sandbox

A job created during a Databricks training with hourly triggers on a warehouse-backed dummy query. Triggers were never disabled after the training, and kept firing for weeks in a workspace everyone assumed was dormant.

Noticed weeks later

Apps running after hours

Every developer had spun up their own Databricks App. Multiple were still active well after hours, not for development, not for demos. No one had visibility across the team.

No visibility without policies

How we think about governance

Automated enforcement, not another dashboard

Kostavo doesn’t just show you problems, it fixes them. Automated policies run on schedule, remediate violations, and notify the right people. Platform teams set the rules; workspace teams stay productive.

One platform, every workspace

Databricks grows fast across teams, regions, and cloud accounts. Kostavo was designed for multi-workspace from day one. Central policies, per-workspace exceptions, and a single pane of glass.

Teams stay autonomous, policies stay enforced

Workspace teams can administer their own environment without waiting on a central team. Kostavo lets you decentralize day-to-day operations while keeping governance policies enforced in the background.

Governance that fits your workflow

Kostavo integrates via Slack, Teams, and webhooks, meeting engineers where they already are instead of forcing them into another tool.

Ready to take control of your Databricks environment?

Start a free trial or talk to us. No sales pressure, no lengthy onboarding.