eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SFWHWrkldTest

The primary goal of data warehousing is to be able to perform fast analytics and reporting. To achieve this goal it is important that workload on the warehouse is managed effectively and any indication of performance degradation due to excessive load can be handled in advance.

This test monitors each warehouse for query run times and queuing times and provides valuable statistics to administrators to understand the load on the warehouse.

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

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
AvgRunning Indicated the average number of queries executed during a measurement period. Number  
AvgQueLoad Indicates the average number of queries queued because the warehouse was overloaded. Number Indicates the high workload on the warehouse.
AvgQueProvision Indicates the average number of queries queued because the warehouse was being provisioned. Number A high value could indicate the slow provisioning pipeline.
AvgBlocked Indicates the average number of queries blocked by a transaction lock. Number A high value could indicate too many transaction locks occurring.