Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that enables users to store, manage, analyze, and share high volumes of structured and semi-structured data. It breaks down the barriers between siloed data sources, serving as a single source of truth for various workloads. Monitoring Snowflake is crucial for optimizing cost, performance, and data quality. Datadog's updated integration provides full visibility into Snowflake's architecture, enabling users to monitor query and Snowpark performance, manage costs, stay ahead of security vulnerabilities, monitor data quality and usage, bring Snowflake data into Datadog, and get full visibility into the entire Snowflake architecture. The integration offers features such as monitoring warehouse size and memory capacity, detecting data quality issues, and streaming custom metrics and tags from Snowflake. With Datadog's capabilities, users can gain a complete picture of their Snowflake usage, identify potential security threats, optimize costs, and make informed decisions about their data management strategy.