Monitoring credit usage with Budgets¶

Account budget and custom budgets¶

The account budget monitors spending for all supported objects in the account. To get notifications for the account budget, set up the spending limit and specify email addresses to receive notifications.

You can also create a custom budget to monitor the spending limits for a specific group of supported objects. Like the account budget, you must set the spending limit and the notification email addresses in order to receive notification emails.

To start using budgets in Snowflake, activate the account budget.

Spending limit and time interval¶

The spending limit is expressed in Snowflake credits and is used for alerting and notifications purposes only. The spending limit is set for the time interval of one calendar month.

The time interval starts at 12:00AM UTC on the first day of the month and ends at 11:59PM UTC on the last day of the month. If a budget is created after the first day of the month, the first monitoring interval is the period until the last day of the current month, then is reset on the first of the following month.

If you activate your account budget after the first of the month, data starting from the beginning of the month is backfilled and used to determine if you are going to exceed your spending limit for the month.

If you create a custom budget after the first of the month, historical data for the month is not backfilled. Forecasting for future spend is based on the credit usage in the days only after the budget is enabled.

Supported objects¶

Each object in the list of supported objects contributes to the spending limit for the account budget. For a custom budget, you can select a group of specific objects to monitor. When you add an object to a custom budget, the budget monitors all compute costs for the object, including background maintenance operations and serverless features. For example, if you add a table to a custom budget, and the table has automatic clustering enabled, the budget monitors credit usage for the background maintenance for automatic clustering.

A budget can monitor the following Snowflake objects:

Budgets notifications¶

A budget sends a daily alert notification when current spending is on track to exceed the spending limit based on time-series forecasting. To receive automatic alert notifications, you must do the following:

• Set a spending limit for the budget.

• Set up email notifications for the budget.

The following is an example of a notification email:

You can disable email notifications for a budget by calling the SET_NOTIFICATION_MUTE_FLAG method.

Application roles to manage the account budget¶

You can grant the following application roles to a custom role in your account to monitor or manage the account budget:

In addition to the application role, there are other required privileges that must be granted to enable a custom role to monitor or manage the account budget. For more information, see Required roles and privileges.

Instance roles to manage custom budgets¶

Each custom budget has instance roles that you can grant to other roles to view or modify the budget:

In addition to the instance role, there are other required privileges that must be granted to enable a custom role to create, monitor, or modify a custom budget. For more information, see Required roles and privileges.

Required roles and privileges¶

In addition to the application or instance roles, the following privileges must be granted to a custom role to monitor or manage budgets:

For more information and examples, see the following sections:

• Create a custom role to manage the account budget

• Create a custom role to monitor the account budget

• Create a custom role to monitor a custom budget

• Create a custom role to manage a custom budget

• Create a custom role to create budgets