Snowflake gave us infinite scale, but it also handed us an infinitely growing bill and an ever-longer list of operational questions:
- How much does Time Travel really cost me?
- Why does this rarely used clone cost 20% of my storage bill?
- Are my warehouses sized for throughput or for glare?
Today we launched three brand-new Seemore Data features designed to put those answers (and more) in front of every data engineer, in real time.
Let’s dive in.
1. Time-Travel & Clone Cost Visibility, Right on the Cost Overview Dashboard
Time Travel and zero-copy cloning are fantastic Snowflake features but they can quietly drain budgets if you’re not watching. Our Cost Overview dashboard now:
- Breaks out storage consumed by each retention window and clone lineage
- Animates growth over time, so you can rewind to any date and pinpoint sudden spikes
- Surfaces recommended retention right-sizing and identifies stale clones
Engineer win: See the exact dollar impact of every “just in case” clone and dial it back with confidence.
2. Whole-Warehouse Health Score, Because Uptime Is a Capability
We’ve rolled dozens of noisy metrics into a single, opinionated Health Score that reflects how well your Snowflake environment supports the workloads you care about.
- Query latency, warehouse queuing, credit burn, disk skew, metadata locks, weighted by your own SLA priorities
- A simple color-coded badge everywhere you already live (dashboards, Slack alerts, API)
- Drill-down to “why” in two clicks: which warehouse, which workload, which SQL pattern
Engineer win: Monday-morning quick check in one glance, no more stitching twelve reports in a panic.
3. Service-Level Cost Trend Analysis
Inside the Services View you’ll now find a cost explorer that slices spend by:
- Underlying data assets
- Applied efficiency metrics to get a fast and deep understanding of how to use the service correctly
The chart auto-detects trend inflections, flags anomalous spend, and recommends the easiest levers to pull first.
Engineer win: Instant FinOps alignment, showing how and where services should be implemented
What Does This Means for Your Team?
Pain Point |
Old Reality |
With Seemore Data |
| Surprise cost spikes | Discovered at month-end | Alerted in-flight, with root cause |
| Time-Travel clutter | Manual queries, guesswork | Visual lineage + retention advice |
| Health drift | “It feels slow today” | Quantified score & drill-downs |
Next Steps
- Jump into the new dashboards.
- Enable the Health Score webhook to push alerts into Slack/MS Teams.
- Tell us what you’d automate next, our roadmap is built by engineers, for engineers.
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