Set Up Snowflake Monitoring Quickly with Sigma Templates
Blog post from Sigma
Sigma provides prebuilt Snowflake Usage templates that simplify the process of monitoring cloud data warehouse usage by offering ready-made dashboards, which significantly reduce the time required to generate insightful reports. These templates, built directly on Snowflake-provided usage views, eliminate the need for data engineering and allow users to easily swap in their own data. Among the templates available, the Snowflake Cost Monitoring template provides detailed insights into compute and storage costs, identifying high-cost accounts and periods. The Snowflake Performance Monitoring template evaluates query performance, cache usage, and warehouse health, identifying issues such as low cache utilization that may affect performance. The User Activity template tracks user interactions and highlights anomalies in query volume and behavior, facilitating further investigation. Overall, Sigma's templates enable users to efficiently explore and analyze data on compute costs, warehouse performance, and user activity, offering a streamlined approach to data monitoring and decision-making.