Snowflake Warehouse Workload Test
The primary goal of data warehousing is to be able to perform fast analytics and reporting. To achieve this goal it is important that workload on the warehouse is managed effectively and any indication of performance degradation due to excessive load can be handled in advance.
This test monitors each warehouse for query run times and queuing times and provides valuable statistics to administrators to understand the load on the warehouse.
Target of the test : Snowflake Database server
Agent deploying the test : A remote agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for each warehouse in the Snowflake service account being monitored.
Parameter |
Description |
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed. |
Host |
The IP address of the Snowflake. |
Port |
The port number through which the snowflake database server communicates. The default port is 443. |
Warehouse Name |
In this text box, enter the name of a virtual warehouse that needs to be monitored. |
Database Name |
In this text box, enter the name of a default database that will connect the snowflake server. |
User |
Specify the name of the user who has any of the following privileges to the specified. |
Password |
The password of the specified USER. |
Confirm Password |
Confirm the password by retyping it here. |
Measurement |
Description |
Measurement Unit |
Interpretation |
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Average running |
Indicated the average number of queries executed during a measurement period. |
Number |
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Average queued load |
Indicates the average number of queries queued because the warehouse was overloaded. |
Number |
Indicates the high workload on the warehouse. |
Average queued provisioning |
Indicates the average number of queries queued because the warehouse was being provisioned. |
Number |
A high value could indicate the slow provisioning pipeline. |
Average blocked |
Indicates the average number of queries blocked by a transaction lock. |
Number |
A high value could indicate too many transaction locks occurring. |