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Date Published
Author
Nicholas Thomson
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1126
Language
English
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Summary

Datadog's Snowflake integration provides full visibility into Snowflake's infrastructure and data retrieval, enabling teams to improve performance and reduce costs by uncovering long-running queries and rooting out inefficient resource utilization. The integration collects telemetry from Snowflake, including logs on query history, security, and event tables, as well as metrics from Account usage and Organization usage schemas. Datadog offers an out-of-the-box dashboard for monitoring Snowflake performance metrics, including key performance indicators such as execution time, average bytes written, and average bytes scanned. The integration also enables teams to monitor virtual warehouses with Log Analytics, optimize their spend with Cloud Cost Management, and create custom dashboards to track additional metrics. By leveraging Datadog's Snowflake integration, teams can gain deeper insights into their Snowflake data and make data-driven decisions to improve performance and reduce costs.