Stop Paying for Compute Time Nobody's Using
Auto-Shutdown
Every second between the last query and the Snowflake auto-suspend mechanism kicking in is pure waste – capacity nobody’s using, billed in full, that can add up to 8–20% of your Snowflake compute spend.
A few seconds here, a few seconds there – across hundreds of warehouses and thousands of quiet moments a day, that adds up to 8–20% of your Snowflake compute spend. It’s money on the floor: it buys nothing, nobody’s using it, and it can be recovered reliably, with barely any effort, and without putting your workloads at risk. Seemore Data’s Auto-Shutdown watches every warehouse in real time and suspends it the moment it actually stops working – without ever touching a running query, and without you configuring a thing. You’re a few toggles away from complete idle optimization!
Seemore Auto-Shutdown in Action
Saves Money - Without Jeopardizing Your Performance
Idle time is the cleanest saving in Snowflake: there’s no trade-off, because nobody is using the capacity you’re being billed for.
- Suspends each warehouse the moment it goes idle, instead of waiting out a fixed timeout – every time, on every warehouse
- Typically 8–20% of compute spend, without any configuration overhead
- Running multi-cluster warehouses? Pair it with Auto-Scaler, which scales idle extra clusters back down the same way – so you’re not paying for clusters nobody’s using either
- Reports the actual savings it captured per warehouse, so the impact on your bill is measured, not estimated
Your Performance Is Safe
Every safeguard is checked before a single action is taken – Auto-Shutdown is built to be the automation you can turn on and forget.
- Never suspends a warehouse with a running or queued query. The check runs before every suspension, without exception
- Respects Snowflake’s 60-second minimum billing. A warehouse is never suspended inside the first minute you’ve already paid for – so you never throw away capacity you’ve been charged for
- Queries always complete on their own. Nothing is terminated, cancelled, or interrupted mid-flight
One Toggle, No More Effort on Your Side
No scripts, no scheduled jobs, no per-warehouse tuning to maintain.
- One permission grant and one toggle turn it on
- Enable it globally at the account level, or warehouse by warehouse – your choice, changeable any time
- No agents to deploy, no dedicated monitoring warehouse to pay for, no code to write or maintain
- Starts saving from the moment it’s switched on – practically nothing to configure, calibrate, or tune per warehouse
Easy to Monitor
Automation you can see is automation you can trust – every action is logged, measured, and reversible.
- Idle-time analytics per warehouse: average idle per session at P50, P90 and P95, plus idle vs. execution time side by side
- Every suspension is recorded in the Event Log and attributed to Auto-Shutdown, so nothing changes anonymously
- Savings reported per warehouse, alongside SmartPulse, Auto-Scaler and Insights in one view
- See exactly how much idle time was eliminated, warehouse by warehouse, at any point in time
Frequently asked questions
What is Seemore Data's Auto-Shutdown?
An automation that watches every warehouse in real time and suspends it the moment it actually stops working, instead of waiting out Snowflake’s default idle timeout, so you stop paying for compute time nobody’s using.
How much can it actually save?
Typically 8-20% of total compute spend. Idle time between the last query and Snowflake’s own auto-suspend kicking in adds up across hundreds of warehouses and thousands of quiet moments a day, and that’s pure waste with nothing to show for it.
Will it ever suspend a warehouse that's still being used?
No. It checks for any running or queued query before every single suspension, without exception, and never touches a query that’s actually executing.
Could it suspend a warehouse right after it's charged for a new minute, wasting that minute?
No. It respects Snowflake’s 60-second minimum billing, so a warehouse is never suspended inside the first minute you’ve already paid for, meaning you never throw away capacity you were already charged for.
What happens to a query that's mid-flight when a warehouse goes idle?
Nothing gets cut off. A query always completes on its own; Auto-Shutdown never terminates, cancels, or interrupts anything running.
What about multi-cluster warehouses, does it handle idle extra clusters too?
That’s handled by a companion automation, Auto-Scaler, which scales idle extra clusters back down the same way, so you’re not paying for clusters nobody’s using either.
How much setup or ongoing tuning does this need?
Very little. It’s one permission grant and one toggle, no scripts, scheduled jobs, or per-warehouse tuning to maintain. You can enable it account-wide or warehouse by warehouse, and change that anytime.
Do I need to run any extra infrastructure to make this work?
No. There are no agents to deploy and no dedicated monitoring warehouse to pay for just to run this.
How do I know it's actually working, and not just trust it blindly?
Every suspension is recorded in the event log and attributed to Auto-Shutdown, so nothing happens anonymously. You also get idle-time analytics per warehouse, and savings reported per warehouse alongside SmartPulse, Auto-Scaler, and Insights, so you can see exactly how much idle time was eliminated, warehouse by warehouse, at any point in time.