Maximize power of Snowflake Cloud by monitoring key metrics of usage and cost using powerful reporting tools

Getting the most from your Snowflake Investment could be just a few Spectacular Dashboards away

A data warehouse in the cloud is excellent, but without clear visibility into your usage and costs, it can be difficult to avert overruns or discover opportunities to boost storage and usage, control costs and improve performance.

With the help of Snowflake, organizations (business users) can now easily execute diverse analytic workloads and analyze massive amounts of data and make better business-driven decisions. But, once you have access data or found your Snowflake data warehouse (own data) and created your users and data sources for data consumers, how can you monitor usage and tailor it to your needs? What kind of resources will it consume? How much storage will it require? What is the impact on your billings?

These are questions on every customer's mind. Here comes the role of Snowflake Reporting tools. We will take a closer look at how you can use Reporting tools and dashboards like Power BI, Looker, Tableau etc. to manage Snowflake naturally, efficiently and to its fullest potential in our upcoming webinar “Save Cost by Monitoring Snowflake Cloud Usage with Powerful Analytics”on 6 April 2022, Time: 09:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST

And that's why you need Data Analytics Tools: Snowflake Data Cloud

While Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse is a great solution for your data warehousing and analytics needs and provides the usage statistics and costs visible via their standard interface, many organizations may need more details to achieve important business outcomes.

It is typically an uphill climb for most businesses to create reports and analyses on internal cost and usage data. Data analytics (data analysis) tools provide deeper insight on Snowflake costs and usage. With just a few clicks or a simple hotkey combination, users can launch the data analytics and data integration tools that couple with Snowflake.

Monitoring, Data Analytics and Visualization with tools like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker can provide you with near real-time views of your consumption and utilization by data source, operating system disk type, workload, and other dimensions. These out of the box reports can be extended to monitor more metrics and custom reports can be created to gather pre-defined metrics that are not available in the standard reports.

Monitoring these tools can also provide you with insights on the most expensive queries, which source data is the slowest and underutilized disks which can be used for query caching.

You can monitor and identify possible cost-saving opportunities. For example, you can optimize your table usage based on the queries that run over the tables most frequently to minimize your overall costs. Many other cost analysis strategies can be readily implemented to generate further savings.

The most obvious benefit of using these powerful reporting tools for your business is that, along with the ability to easily monitor additional costs incurred, you use and enable certain functionality within your Snowflake Cloud infrastructure. You can then allocate additional resources and compute resources to free up additional cash flow while minimizing impact on overall Cloud provisioning timelines.

Spark Up Snowflake Investment with Jade's Reporting Dashboards

Building Spectacular Reporting Dashboards:

Jade Global has developed state-of-the-art reporting dashboards that are not married to any particular tool (tool agnostic), can be translated via a diverse range of most commonly employed tools, and can be easily deployed so that businesses can quickly and easily monitor Snowflake Usage and Cost usage metrics like:

• Compute Cost Overview
• Credit Forecasting
• Error Tracking
• Slow Running Queries
• Query Utilization
• User Adoption
• Storage Cost

These reporting dashboards designed by Jade Global make things easier for users. Users are presented with list views of data that can be filtered by category or dimension. Users can then drill down into individual elements of the data set entering specific parameters.

Modern data warehouses contain all sorts of useful information that can help a business make better, faster decisions. Snowflake Cloud is the leading player in the data warehouse space and Jade Global as a Snowflake select Partner is committed to helping its customers take advantage of big data solutions that help improve their business. We believe there is significant untapped potential in this space and know how we can serve up these transformative technologies to impact business goals and help you extract value from your investment while minimizing your effort and costs.