Snowflake data source
The Snowflake data source plugin allows you to query and visualize Snowflake data metrics from within Grafana.
Note
This plugin is available on Grafana Cloud and requires a Grafana Enterprise license for self-managed instances.
Supported Snowflake environments
You can use the Snowflake data source plugin with the following Snowflake deployment types:
- Snowflake on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Snowflake on Microsoft Azure
- Snowflake on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Supported features
Get started
To get started with the Snowflake data source plugin, refer to the following topics:
- Configure the Snowflake data source
- Snowflake query editor
- Template variables
- Alerting
- Annotations
- Troubleshooting
Additional features
After configuring the data source, you can:
- Add Annotations to overlay event data on your graphs.
- Use Templates and variables to create dynamic, reusable dashboards.
- Apply Transformations to process and combine data.
- Use Explore to query data without building a dashboard.
- Set up Alerting to get notified when metrics exceed thresholds.
Pre-built dashboards
The Snowflake data source plugin includes the following pre-built dashboards:
To import a pre-built dashboard:
- Navigate to Connections in the left-side menu.
- Under Your connections, select Data sources.
- Select the Snowflake data source.
- Select the Dashboards tab.
- Select Import next to the dashboard you want to use.
For more information, refer to Import a dashboard.
Plugin updates
To update the plugin on a self-hosted Grafana instance, refer to Update a plugin.
Note
If you are using Grafana Cloud, plugins are automatically updated to the latest version.
