3 years ago

Category: Data

by One of the most frequently asked questions is how to monitor Snowflake usage and costs. This article gives a brief summary of the charges on the Snowflake platform, then explains how to monitor Snowflake usage, and therefore spend over time. Unlike other cloud-based analytic platforms, which charge by the hour, Snowflake uniquely charges per-second for the compute resources, named Virtual Warehouses.

Although the ranking is correct, the credit spend is a worst case estimate because although warehouses are charged by the second, any given warehouse can have a number of executing queries at one time, and the above report indicates a potential worst case, where a warehouse is used by a single user.