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Overview of the Workspace Estimator for the Snowpark Migration Accelerator

Workspace Estimator¶

The Workspace Estimator connects to your Databricks workspace, collects usage data, and generates a cost comparison for running the same workloads on Snowflake. It analyzes the following areas:

1. Infrastructure inventory — node types, cluster configurations
2. Usage patterns — cluster events, lifecycle data
3. Workload analysis — job definitions, execution history
4. Performance metrics — run statistics, resource consumption
5. SQL analytics — warehouse configurations, query history
6. Data pipelines — DLT pipeline configurations and performance

You can run the Workspace Estimator in two ways:

SMA CLI¶

The SMA CLI includes the Workspace Estimator as a built-in command. This is the recommended way to run it. Use the sma we dbx run command to connect to your Databricks workspace, extract metadata, and upload the results to Snowflake in a single step.

For full usage instructions, command options, and examples, see the SMA CLI walkthrough.

Jupyter notebook¶

The Workspace Estimator is also available as a Jupyter notebook hosted on the Snowflake Labs GitHub repository. This version is in maintenance mode and receives bug fixes only. The SMA CLI is the recommended path for new users.