Five Pillars, Five Types

The pillars tell you where we monitor. The types tell you how deep. 200+ monitors across both dimensions — pre-built, parameterised, and ready to activate.

FinOps & Performance

FinOps & Performance

50+ monitors

Stay on top of your credits. Detect cost anomalies, warehouse inefficiencies, and anti-patterns before they hit your bill — then tell you exactly where the money went and who spent it.

Cost Control & Budgeting11

Z-score anomaly detection, budget breach projection, resource monitor gaps

Query & User Attribution4

Per-query cost attribution, expensive pattern detection, user cost growth

Cortex AI Cost Visibility8

Agent runaway detection, velocity alerts, per-model spend, CoWork monitoring

Warehouse Efficiency6

Idle waste, oversized, always-on, queuing, scaling recommendations

Query Performance8

Spilling, cardinality explosion, RBAR detection, deployment regression

Anti-Patterns5

Single-row INSERTs, SHOW hammering, COPY inefficiency, MV refresh cost

Ingestion Costs5

Snowpipe idle credits, streaming spikes, pipe-level thresholds, small files

Storage & Optimization4

High churn, short-lived tables, growth anomalies, unused objects

SPCS Compute3

Hourly credit spikes, idle compute pools, budget monitoring

Security & Admin

Security & Admin

100+ monitors

Protect your perimeter. Continuous monitoring of authentication, authorization, network access, and compliance posture — with CIS Snowflake Benchmark coverage out of the box.

Authentication18

Failed logins, MFA compliance, key pair monitoring, SCIM/PAT tokens, inactive users

Authorization17

ACCOUNTADMIN grants, privilege escalation, role concentration, user alterations

Network13

Blocked IPs, policy changes, dangling policies, coverage gaps, altered sessions

Threat Detection8

Suspect clients, unusual IPs, unseen IP+password combos, orphaned roles

CIS 1.x Identity & Access16

SSO, MFA, key rotation, session timeout, admin role limits, SCIM

CIS 2.x Monitoring11

Admin grants, MANAGE GRANTS, network changes, share exposures, integration changes

CIS 3.x Data Protection12

Encryption, masking, retention, tri-secret, storage integrations, re-keying

Data Quality

Data Quality

33+ monitors

Trust your data. Validate freshness, completeness, and correctness at the table level and the pipeline level — catching issues before stakeholders notice stale reports.

Tables & Views9

Nulls, uniqueness, freshness, value ranges, string length assertions

Snowpipe Health7

Channel errors, freshness, outstanding messages, execution state

Stream Health7

Going stale, gone stale, gone invalid, invalid source tables

Dynamic Tables3

Refresh failures, stalled refreshes

Governance Coverage9

Masking policy gaps, row access gaps, untagged sensitive columns, lineage gaps

Operational Failures

Operational Failures

15+ monitors

Know before your stakeholders. Real-time pipeline failure detection via queue integration — task graph failures and pipe errors within seconds, with auto-resolve when they recover.

Pipeline Health7

DT refresh failures, Omnata sync issues, task graph failures (real-time), pipe errors (real-time)

Replication3

Lag detection, failures, failover group health

Data Connectors3

DCM job failure, latency anomaly, sync gap detection

DevOps Adoption2

Git integration inactive, low declarative DDL adoption

Tracing & Logging

Tracing & Logging

36+ monitors

Full observability across everything that emits telemetry to Snowflake's event table — Python UDFs, Snowpark handlers, containers, connectors, and managed services.

Handlers8

Memory spikes, CPU spikes, leak detection, error clustering, log silence

SPCS Containers4

Restart storms, resource utilisation, health checks, log volume

SiS Apps (Streamlit)6

Errors, latency, sessions, resources, deployment, custom events

Openflow5

Connector errors, restart storms, throughput drops, stalled ingestion

Snowflake Postgres5

Connection exhaustion, lock contention, disk pressure, instance down

Spans & Traces3

Duration anomalies, error rates, completeness

Native Apps2

Task failures, telemetry silence

Event Table Health3

Growth anomaly, ingestion lag, storage pressure

Five Types of Monitor

Each pillar contains monitors of increasing sophistication. DIY teams typically build Types 1–2. Monitorial covers all five — plus the orchestration layer that makes them operational.

Tripwire

Binary — something happened or didn't.

DIY?Yes
Monitorial adds

Routing, suppression, lifecycle

From: Essentials

Threshold

A number crossed a line.

DIY?Yes (noisy)
Monitorial adds

Temporal baselines, deploy-window suppression

From: Essentials

Trend

Heading wrong direction — not broken yet.

DIY?Rarely
Monitorial adds

Proactive health picture

From: Professional

Anti-pattern

Doing something wrong without knowing.

DIY?Rarely
Monitorial adds

Impact quantification, suggested fix

From: Professional

Correlation

Multi-signal, stateful, cross-entity.

DIY?Can't
Monitorial adds

Reduces alert noise to actionable incidents

From: Enterprise

5 Pillars × 5 Types = Complete Coverage

Every dimension of your Snowflake environment, at every level of sophistication. Start your Enterprise trial and see the full picture.

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