Slingshot notifications

Slingshot notifications

By default, Slingshot automatically sends out-of-the-box email notifications for the following daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly notifications and reports to the specified receivers.

Daily notifications

NotificationReceiver(s)Triggered when…
Snowflake usage nearing n%Tenant AdminSnowflake usage reaches 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% of credits spent
Snowflake usage projected to exceed contractTenant Admin
  • 10% - 25% of credits have been consumed: Average daily credit usage is 20% greater than Daily Credit Usage needed to meet contract end date for 2 weeks straight
  • 26% - 70% of credits have been consumed: Average daily credit usage is 15% greater than Daily Credit Usage needed to meet contract end date for 2 weeks straight
  • 71% - 90% of credits have been consumed: Average daily credit usage is 10% greater than Daily Credit Usage needed to meet contract end date for 2 weeks straight
  • 91% - 99% of credits have been consumed: Average daily credit usage is 5% greater than Daily Credit Usage needed to meet contract end date for 1 week straight

Weekly notifications

NotificationReceiver(s)Triggered when…
Business organization cost spikeOwner,
Org Admin
A cost spike has been detected for a particular Org when:
  1. 10% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
  2. OR
  3. 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost
Warehouse cost spikeOwner,
Org Admin
A cost spike has been detected for a particular warehouse when:
  1. 110% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
  2. OR
  3. 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost
Snowflake platform cost spikeTenant AdminA cost spike has been detected for both storage and compute when:
  1. 10% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
  2. OR
  3. 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost

Bi-weekly notifications

NotificationReceiver(s)Triggered when…
Costliest queriesOrg AdminNo trigger: This is a bi-weekly report that lists the top 10 queries by cost for the past 2 weeks

Monthly notifications

NotificationReceiver(s)Triggered when…
Costs for business org increased/decreased % month to month (previous month)Org AdminNo trigger: This is a monthly report that shows the percentage increase/decrease from month to month for the previous month
Costs for business org increased/decreased % month to month (previous 2 months)Org AdminNo trigger: This is a monthly report that shows the percentage increase/decrease from month to month for the previous 2 months
Costliest usersOrg AdminNo trigger: This is a monthly report that shows which users are contributing the most to overall cost utilization