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Maximize your Snowflake investment with real-time operational insights into cost efficiency, data reliability, and data warehouse performance.

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Acceldata Data Observability for Snowflake integrates alerting, SQL analytics, data reliability and automated actions across your Snowflake deployments.

Control

Ensure optimal Data Warehouse utilization with operational guardrails.

Optimization

Get Actionable Insights across all Snowflake components.

Trust

Deliver high quality data at the right time and cost.

Cost Optimization
Improve resource efficiency & 
align cost to value.
Account Health Monitoring
Automated resource and usage guardrails with alerts and recommendations to enforce best practices
Utilization Insight & guardrails
Utilize natural language interface (NLI) based dashboards and customizable reports to manage auto-clustering and storage.
Eliminate Waste
Detect over provisioning, unused resources, and performance inefficiencies for continuous cost optimization.
Spend Forecasting & FinOps
Use ML/AI-based forecasting for accurate data warehouse and departmental budget predictions.
Usage Analytics
Monitor & analyze performance 
and optimal usage.
Performance Analytics
Analyze query patterns across warehouses, users, and systems to optimize performance.
Monitoring
Proactively manage performance with threshold-based alerts and runbooks for 
issue resolution.
Remediation
Automatically trigger actions based on predefined thresholds and monitors across data warehouses, such as addressing 
long-running queries or resizing resources.
Optimize
Implement ML-driven recommendations to optimize configurations and resource utilization.
Data Reliability
Maximize data trust and return on investment.
Data Reliability
Ensure data integrity with customizable data quality checks, data reconciliation, and anomaly detection.
Data Discovery & Profiling
Built-in, searchable data catalog for assets such as Tables, Columns, Files, Streams
Data Pipeline Observability
Track end-to-end pipeline performance and quality for Snowflake datasets.
X-Lake Architecture
Manage data quality across Cloud, Hybrid, and Private Cloud Data Lakes from a single platform.
Transform your Snowflake environment with Acceldata Data Observability, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness throughout your data operations.

Observe

Monitor and analyze your Snowflake Data Warehouse to pinpoint cost and performance issues, and evaluate any incorrect utilization.
Details
Features
Cost Explorer
NLI Based Exploratory Cost Analytics
Contract Forecasting
Failed / Expensive & Long-running Queries
Service-level Cost Insights
(Compute, Storage, Views, Auto-clustering, Snowpipe)
Finops
NLI Based Showback & Chargeback
Departmental Budgeting & Controls
NLI Based Spend Analysis Drilldowns
Out of Box Reporting
Cost Reduction Insights
Health Checks + Alerting
Query Performance
Feature Usage
Alerting
Notification Channels
(Slack, JIRA, Service Now, Pagerduty & many others)
Incident Management
Admin Assistant
Guardrails
Best Practice Advisor
Permission/Privi Audit
Cost Reduction Page

Analyze Suboptimal Resource Utilization

Identify suboptimal resource utilization, allocations, cost tracking, recommendations, and optimization potential.
Details
Features
Detailed Insights & Drilldowns
Warehouses
Clusters
Tables
Materialized Views
Queries
Micro-partitioning
Auto-clustering
Column-level 

Optimize 

Utilize insights from observations to enhance performance and optimize warehouses, clusters, micro-partitions, tables, views, and queries.
Details
Features
Warehouse Optimization
Warehouse Efficiency
Right Sizing Recommendations
SQL Query Optimization
Bad Query Alerts
Query Rewriting
Query Debugging
Table Optimizations
Clustering Insights
Micro-partitioning Insights**
Table level insights: size, access**
Materialized Views**
Warehouse Recommendations
Warehouse Rightsizing
Storage Recommendations
Auto-clustering on high churn tables
Unused Tables
Query Optimizations
Failed Queries
Expensive Queries
Long-running Queries
Compliance
Unused Views
Dormant Users
Idle Warehouses
Unused Roles

80-20 rule

Maximize value by focusing scarce resources on the 20% of suboptimal activities that have the most business impact.
Details
Features
Focus on
Significant Impact
Large & Most Accessed Tables
Most Filtered Columns
Most Expensive Queries
Long-running Queries
Most Frequently Used Queries
Most Expensive Users
Longest Executing Warehouses
Long Running Tasks
Stale Streams
Most Expensive Databases
Most Expensive Materialized Views
Most Expensive Tables, High Churn Tables
Query Fingerprinting

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