Schema:: ACCOUNT_USAGE

WAREHOUSE_EVENTS_HISTORY view¶

This Account Usage view can be used to return the events that have been triggered for the single-cluster and multi-cluster warehouses in your account in the last 365 days (1 year).

Supported events include:

Creating, dropping, or altering a warehouse, including resizing the warehouse.
Resuming or suspending a warehouse.
Resuming, suspending, or resizing a cluster in a warehouse (single-cluster and multi-cluster warehouses).
Stopping or starting additional clusters in a warehouse (multi-cluster warehouses only).

Columns¶

Column name	Data type	Description
TIMESTAMP	TIMESTAMP_LTZ	The timestamp when the event is triggered.
WAREHOUSE_ID	NUMBER	The unique warehouse ID (assigned by Snowflake) that corresponds to the warehouse name in your account.
WAREHOUSE_NAME	VARCHAR	The name of the warehouse in your account.
CLUSTER_NUMBER	NUMBER	If an event was triggered for a specific cluster in a multi-cluster warehouse, the number of the cluster (starting with 1) for which the event was triggered; if the event was triggered for all clusters in the warehouse or is not applicable for a single-cluster warehouse, NULL is displayed.
EVENT_NAME	VARCHAR	Name of the event. For the list of possible values, see below.
EVENT_REASON	VARCHAR	The cause of the event. For the list of possible values, see below.
EVENT_STATE	VARCHAR	State of an event that might take time to complete: STARTED or COMPLETED.
USER_NAME	VARCHAR	User who initiated the event.
ROLE_NAME	VARCHAR	Role that was active in the session at the time the event was initiated.
QUERY_ID	VARCHAR	Internal/system-generated identifier for the SQL statement.
SIZE	VARCHAR	Current size of the warehouse at the time of the event. This value is only available for WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT events. Otherwise, this value is NULL.
CLUSTER_COUNT	NUMBER	Number of warehouse clusters at the time of the event. This value is only available for WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT events. Otherwise, this value is NULL.
WAREHOUSE_TYPE	VARCHAR	One of `STANDARD` or `SNOWPARK-OPTIMIZED`. This value is only available for WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT events. Otherwise, this value is NULL.
RESOURCE_CONSTRAINT	VARCHAR	One of: . - `MEMORY_1X` . - `MEMORY_1X_x86` . - `MEMORY_16X` . - `MEMORY_16X_x86` . - `MEMORY_64X` . - `MEMORY_64X_x86` . This value is only available for WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT events. Otherwise, this value is NULL.

EVENT_NAME descriptions¶

The following sections describe the valid values for the EVENT_NAME column for warehouse-related and cluster-related events.

Warehouse-related events¶

The following table describes the valid values for the EVENT_NAME column for warehouse-related events:

EVENT_NAME

Description

CREATE_WAREHOUSE

Triggered by the creation of a new warehouse, which can occur when a user manually creates a warehouse or when an account is provisioned and the default warehouse is automatically created in the account.

Cluster number	None (N/A)
Event state	COMPLETED or STARTED
Event reason	None (N/A)

Cost impact: None if the cluster is created with INITIALLY_SUSPENDED = TRUE. Otherwise, metering starts when all compute resources are provisioned for the warehouse or the warehouse starts processing statements (if the warehouse starts processing statements before the resources are fully provisioned).

DROP_WAREHOUSE

Triggered when an existing warehouse is dropped; all currently executing queries on the warehouse are stopped and the compute resources are released.

Cluster number	None (N/A)
Event state	COMPLETED or STARTED
Event reason	None (N/A)

Cost impact: Metering on the compute resources for the warehouse stops after all currently executing queries complete.

ALTER_WAREHOUSE

Triggered when the properties of an existing warehouse are changed, including resizing the warehouse. If the warehouse is resized, additional RESIZE_WAREHOUSE events are triggered. This event can also trigger RESUME_WAREHOUSE or SUSPEND_WAREHOUSE events.

Cluster number	None (N/A)
Event state	COMPLETED or STARTED
Event reason	None (N/A)

Cost impact: Depends on the event(s) that are triggered by the ALTER statement.

RESIZE_WAREHOUSE

Triggered by changing the size of a warehouse, which increases or decreases the compute resources in each cluster in the warehouse. For a running warehouse, this event also triggers a RESIZE_CLUSTER event for each cluster in the warehouse.

Cluster number	None (N/A)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_RESIZE

Cost impact: Resizing a running warehouse adds or removes compute resources in each cluster in the warehouse. Newly added resources start metering when they are provisioned. Removed resources stop metering after they finish processing any currently executing queries.

Resizing a suspended warehouse does not provision any new resources for the warehouse.

RESUME_WAREHOUSE

Triggered when a suspended warehouse is resumed or a new warehouse is created with INITIALLY_SUSPENDED = FALSE. This event also triggers a RESUME_CLUSTER event for each cluster in the warehouse.

Cluster number	None (applies to all clusters)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_AUTORESUME or WAREHOUSE_RESUME

Cost impact: Metering begins after all the compute resources are provisioned for the warehouse.

SUSPEND_WAREHOUSE

Triggered when a running warehouse is suspended. This event also triggers a SUSPEND_CLUSTER event for each cluster in the warehouse.

Cluster number	None (applies to all clusters)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_AUTOSUSPEND or WAREHOUSE_SUSPEND

Cost impact: Metering on the compute resources for the warehouse stops after all running statements complete.

WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT

Triggered when pending changes to a warehouse complete. For more information, see Usage notes.

Cluster number	NULL
Event state	COMPLETED
Event reason	NULL

Cost impact: None. Metering occurs for the warehouse event that is logged with the STARTED state before the WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event.

For more information, see the cost impact of the warehouse events described in the previous rows.

Cluster-related events¶

The following table describes the valid values for the EVENT_NAME column for cluster-related events:

EVENT_NAME

Description

RESUME_CLUSTER

Triggered when a suspended cluster is resumed.

Cluster number	Number of the resumed cluster (always `1` for a single-cluster warehouse)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_AUTORESUME or WAREHOUSE_RESUME (single-cluster warehouse) MULTICLUSTER_SPINUP (multi-cluster warehouse)

Cost impact: Metering starts on the compute resources for the cluster after they are provisioned.

SUSPEND_CLUSTER

Triggered when a running cluster is suspended.

Cluster number	Number of the suspended cluster (always `1` for a single-cluster warehouse)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason:	WAREHOUSE_AUTOSUSPEND or WAREHOUSE_SUSPEND (single-cluster warehouse) MULTICLUSTER_SPINDOWN (multi-cluster warehouse) RESOURCE_MONITOR_SUSPEND

Cost impact: Metering stops on the compute resources for the cluster after all currently executing queries complete.

RESIZE_CLUSTER

Triggered when a cluster is resized, usually as a result of resizing a warehouse.

Cluster number	Number of the resized cluster (always `1` for a single-cluster warehouse)
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_AUTORESUME or WAREHOUSE_RESUME (single-cluster warehouse) MULTICLUSTER_SPINDOWN or MULTICLUSTER_SPINUP (multi-cluster warehouse) WAREHOUSE_RESIZE

Cost impact: Depends on whether compute resources are added or removed due to resizing. Newly added resources start metering when they are provisioned. Removed resources stop metering after they finish processing any currently executing queries.

SPINUP_CLUSTER

Triggered when a cluster is started (multi-cluster warehouse only); usually happens when the mininimum or maximum cluster size is increased.

Cluster number	Number of the cluster that was started
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_RESIZE (single-cluster warehouse) MULTICLUSTER_SPINUP (multi-cluster warehouse)

Cost impact: Metering starts on the compute resources for the cluster after they are provisioned.

SPINDOWN_CLUSTER

Triggered when a running cluster is shut down (multi-cluster warehouse only); usually happens when the minimum or maximum cluster size is decreased.

Cluster number	Number of the cluster that was shut down
Event state	STARTED
Event reason	WAREHOUSE_RESIZE (single-cluster warehouse) MULTICLUSTER_SPINDOWN (multi-cluster warehouse)

Cost impact: Metering stops on the compute resources for the cluster after all currently executing queries complete.

EVENT_REASON descriptions¶

The following table describes the valid values for the EVENT_REASON column:

EVENT_REASON	Description
WAREHOUSE_AUTORESUME	A suspended warehouse was resumed automatically because AUTO_RESUME is enabled for the warehouse and a SQL statement was submitted to the warehouse.
WAREHOUSE_RESUME	A suspended warehouse was resumed manually by a user.
WAREHOUSE_AUTOSUSPEND	A running warehouse was suspended automatically because AUTO_SUSPEND is enabled for the warehouse and the defined period of inactivity for AUTO_SUSPEND has passed.
WAREHOUSE_SUSPEND	A running warehouse was suspended manually by a user.
WAREHOUSE_RESIZE	A warehouse was resized.
RESOURCE_MONITOR_SUSPEND	A warehouse was suspended because the credit quota for the resource monitor for the warehouse was reached.
MULTICLUSTER_SPINUP	A new or suspended cluster was provisioned in a multi-cluster warehouse; not applicable to single-cluster warehouses.
MULTICLUSTER_SPINDOWN	A running cluster was shut down in a multi-cluster warehouse; not applicable to single-cluster warehouses.

Usage notes¶

Latency for the view may be up to three hours.

An event can produce multiple rows in the view if it triggers additional, related events.
The value for the EVENT_REASON, USER_NAME, ROLE_NAME, and QUERY_ID columns is NULL for a WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event.
The WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event might share the same timestamp with another warehouse event and be listed out of order.

Warehouse event that indicates that an operation has completed¶

Events that create a warehouse, change the size of the warehouse or the number of clusters, or suspend a warehouse are not atomic operations. This means that some small amount of time is required for these operations to fully complete.

For example, if a warehouse is suspended using an ALTER WAREHOUSE … SUSPEND statement, any queries that are currently executing on the warehouse must complete (or time out) before it can be suspended. In some cases, multiple warehouse events might be in-flight (for example, resize and suspend). When all warehouse events have completed, the warehouse is in a consistent state.

If a warehouse event is logged with the STARTED state in the EVENT_STATE column, it is never logged with a COMPLETED state. Instead, an event logged with the STARTED state is always followed by a subsequent WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event. If multiple warehouse events are logged with the STARTED event state, those events coalesce to the same WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event.

If a warehouse event is logged with the COMPLETED state in the EVENT_STATE column, no subsequent WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event follows unless another pending event is logged with a STARTED state.

Examples¶

View events history for the previous week¶

View the events history for warehouse my_wh for the previous week by executing the following statement:

SELECT timestamp, warehouse_name, cluster_number,
       event_name, event_reason, event_state,
       size, cluster_count
  FROM SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.WAREHOUSE_EVENTS_HISTORY
  WHERE warehouse_name = 'MY_WH'
  AND timestamp > DATEADD('day', -7, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP())
  ORDER BY timestamp DESC;

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Example events history results¶

Events history for a statement with no pending changes¶

An ALTER WAREHOUSE statement is logged with the COMPLETED state when there are no additional changes pending. For example, the following statement updates the comment for warehouse my_wh:

ALTER WAREHOUSE my_wh SET
  COMMENT = 'Updated comment for warehouse';

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This statement results in the following row in the WAREHOUSE_EVENTS_HISTORY view:

TIMESTAMP	WAREHOUSE_NAME	EVENT_NAME	EVENT_STATE	SIZE	CLUSTER_COUNT
2024-04-26 16:42:13.513 +0000	MY_WH	ALTER_WAREHOUSE	COMPLETED	NULL	NULL

Events history for a statement that is followed by a WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT event¶

When an ALTER WAREHOUSE statement changes the warehouse size, additional events follow. For example, resize warehouse my_wh:

ALTER WAREHOUSE my_wh SET
  WAREHOUSE_SIZE = 'SMALL';

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This statement results in the following rows in the WAREHOUSE_EVENTS_HISTORY view:

TIMESTAMP	WAREHOUSE_NAME	EVENT_NAME	EVENT_STATE	SIZE	CLUSTER_COUNT
2024-05-29 15:13:05.874 +0000	MY_WH	ALTER_WAREHOUSE	STARTED	NULL	NULL
2024-05-29 15:13:05.874 +0000	MY_WH	RESIZE_WAREHOUSE	STARTED	NULL	NULL
2024-05-29 15:13:06.036 +0000	MY_WH	WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT	COMPLETED	SMALL	1
2024-05-29 15:13:06.036 +0000	MY_WH	RESIZE_CLUSTER	COMPLETED	NULL	NULL

Events history for a Snowflake-initiated warehouse event¶

When Snowflake resumes a multi-cluster warehouse, the following warehouse events are logged:

TIMESTAMP	WAREHOUSE_NAME	EVENT_NAME	EVENT_STATE	SIZE	CLUSTER_COUNT
2024-04-23 17:04:11.618 +0000	MY_WH	SPINUP_CLUSTER	STARTED	NULL	NULL
2024-04-23 17:04:11.657 +0000	MY_WH	RESUME_CLUSTER	STARTED	NULL	NULL
2024-04-23 17:04:11.657 +0000	MY_WH	WAREHOUSE_CONSISTENT	COMPLETED	LARGE	5