eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SFWHCreditStTest

The virtual warehouses on Snowflake consume credit only when they are active. The cost charged to the customer by Snowflake is dependent upon the size of the database and the amount of time the warehouse run. In case the warehouse size is more than required or a warehouse is running despite the work being done, it may consume extra charges. Administrators always need a way to be informed if there are any unnecessary charges are consumed.

eG Enterprise monitors credit usage and can provide you with important insights into how the credits are being consumed across the organization. Using these insights administrators can decide if database size or running duration can be optimized to save cost.

This test monitors each warehouse for credit usage and collects statistics related to the trend of credit usage and rate of credit consumption. Looking at these metrics administrators can identify the root cause of any unexpected surge in credit consumption, this, in turn, can help them re-architecture the warehouse design by shutting down unused warehouses and re-directing the queries on more used ones.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for each warehouse present in snowflake service account being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
CreditUsedCompute Indicates the number of credits used by each warehouse as measured during the last measurement period. Number If you notice a surge in credits used, you may want to take a closer look at query throughput over the last few measurements. For example, if your warehouse is consuming credit while executing only one query in an hour, you may want to change the configuration so it consumes credit only when executing query.
CreditCloudUsedCompute Indicates the number of credits used by cloud service as measured during the last measurement period. Number  
CreditUsed Indicates the total credit usage including both warehouse and cloud service. Number  
CreditUsedGrowth Indicates the rate at which credits are consumed during the last measurement period. Credits / hour