Monitoring Snowflake
Snowflake is a rapidly growing cloud computing and services company founded in 2012 with 1300+ partners and thousands of customers across multiple industries and government. Data currently managed by Snowflake exceeds 250PB, with 515 million data workloads run every day.
Snowflake is a fully managed database that offers data storage and analytics along with a host of other features that provide automation, data resiliency, and secure access. Snowflake provides a highly scalable cross-platform service that unifies structured or unstructured data hosted on cloud storage platforms currently including Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Compute and cloud service resources are charged for only active usage by the second and highly configurable for costsaving and scalability.
Foglight for Snowflake Overview
Foglight for Snowflake brings comprehensive, non-siloed, enterprise-class monitoring to the industry’s most innovative cloud data management platform. Used standalone, Foglight for Snowflake is a robust monitoring solution providing insight into database performance and usage. When used in conjunction with other Foglight monitoring components, operators can collect and correlate information across infrastructure layers. This added value makes Foglight for Snowflake an invaluable part of this industryleading Database Performance Monitoring solution.
Foglight for Snowflake monitors all editions of Snowflake, bringing in critical performance data of compute warehouses, storage, and data intake and highlights queries using large amounts of resources or experiencing failures or bottlenecks in the database. Additionally, Foglight for Snowflake monitors credit usage at the query, warehouse, and account level as well as tracking user security roles and failed login attempts.
Ease of Installation
Installation of the solution takes only minutes. One remote agent monitors a single Snowflake Account in an organization. Configuration requires only a valid Snowflake user with the necessary permissions and details of the account you wish to monitor. Additional configuration to exclude certain databases, modify collection intervals, and customize the number and sorting dimension of tables and queries collected is also possible.
Data Visualization and Reporting
Foglight for Snowflake provides quick access to vital performance data. The solution leverages rich dashboards and robust data analysis to quickly uncover critical issues affecting bottlenecking, data intake problems, and higher than expected credit usage.
Extensibility
As the range of Snowflake offerings grows, Foglight for Snowflake will continue to grow with them, bringing new insight into a powerful APM platform to decrease problem resolution time and optimize efficiency.
Paying Dividends
With feature-rich out-of-the-box dashboards and rules, Foglight for Snowflake provides unparalleled insight into your Snowflake account and offers immediate benefits to database administrators. As data is collected, the solution pays additional dividends delivering historical trend analysis, scheduled reports, and improved alerting. Operators can easily create user-defined dashboards to represent data in a manner unique to their organization.
Combined, these features bring great insight into database and application availability and ensure improved access to mission-critical data.
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