Monitoring cost

A budget allows you to set a monthly spending limit and monitor the credit usage of all supported objects in your account. In addition to your account budget, you can create custom budgets to monitor credit usage of groups of specified objects. A budget sends an email notification if your credit usage is expected to exceed your spending limit for the month.

A resource monitor allows you to monitor credit usage by user-managed virtual warehouses and the cloud services layer of the Snowflake architecture. You can set a monthly spending limit or a spending limit for a custom time interval. Resource monitors can send an email notification when your credit usage reaches the threshold (percentage) of the spending limit. You can also optionally suspend a warehouse when its credit usage reaches the threshold.

For background information about how virtual warehouses and cloud services incur costs, see Understanding compute cost.

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