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
| Notification |
Receiver(s) |
Triggered when… |
| Snowflake usage nearing n% |
Tenant Admin |
Snowflake usage reaches 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% of credits spent |
| Snowflake usage projected to exceed contract |
Tenant 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
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Weekly notifications
| Notification |
Receiver(s) |
Triggered when… |
| Business organization cost spike |
Owner,Org Admin |
A cost spike has been detected for a particular Org when: - 10% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
OR- 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost
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| Warehouse cost spike |
Owner, Org Admin |
A cost spike has been detected for a particular warehouse when: - 110% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
OR- 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost
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| Snowflake platform cost spike |
Tenant Admin |
A cost spike has been detected for both storage and compute when: - 10% increase between last weekly cost and average weekly cost for past 8 weeks rolling (not including last week)
OR- 20% increase between last weekly cost and previous weekly cost
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Bi-weekly notifications
| Notification |
Receiver(s) |
Triggered when… |
| Costliest queries |
Org Admin |
No trigger: This is a bi-weekly report that lists the top 10 queries by cost for the past 2 weeks |
Monthly notifications
| Notification |
Receiver(s) |
Triggered when… |
| Costs for business org increased/decreased % month to month (previous month) |
Org Admin |
No 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 Admin |
No trigger: This is a monthly report that shows the percentage increase/decrease from month to month for the previous 2 months |
| Costliest users |
Org Admin |
No trigger: This is a monthly report that shows which users are contributing the most to overall cost utilization |