Schema:

MONITORING

ICEBERG_ACCESS_ERRORS view

This MONITORING schema view displays external volume access errors for the account.

Use the information in this view to search for and troubleshoot access errors, which can result from situations like the following:

  • Snowflake loses privileges to access the external volume storage location.

  • Snowflake tries to access files that have been deleted or overwritten.

  • Snowflake encounters other storage access issues.

See also:

Iceberg tables

Columns

Column name

Data type

Description

EXTERNAL_VOLUME_ID

NUMBER

The unique ID of the external volume associated with the error.

EXTERNAL_VOLUME_NAME

TEXT

The name of the external volume associated with the error.

CREATED_ON

TIMESTAMP_LTZ

Date and time when the error was raised.

EXTERNAL_VOLUME_PATH

TEXT

Full path to the file on the external volume associated with the error.

MESSAGE

TEXT

The Snowflake error message.

STORAGE_METHOD_NAME

TEXT

The method (action) tried against the storage location; for example, findRegionForLocation or deleteCurrentFiles.

STORAGE_PROVIDER_ERROR_MESSAGE

TEXT

The error message received from your cloud service provider.

Examples

Retrieve all storage access errors for the external volume named my_s3_external_volume:

SELECT * FROM snowflake.monitoring.iceberg_access_errors
  WHERE EXTERNAL_VOLUME_NAME ILIKE 'my_s3_external_volume';
Copy

Retrieve storage access errors that started within the last hour for the external volume named my_external_volume:

SELECT * FROM snowflake.monitoring.iceberg_access_errors
  WHERE EXTERNAL_VOLUME_NAME ILIKE 'my_external_volume'
  AND CREATED_ON > DATEADD(HOUR, -1, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP());
Copy