Blogs
How Keebo Cuts Snowflake Costs with Smart Optimization Tools
Discover how Keebo AI outperforms other Snowflake cost optimization tools to improve efficiency, automate spend control, and reduce cloud costs. Learn proven FinOps tactics.
Snowflake Spend Visibility, Live Cost Tracking & Financial Governance
How to gain control of Snowflake costs with dashboards, monitoring, and proactive governance (and why “FinOps for data” is now table stakes) Snowflake is incredible at turning data into business outcomes – until the bill shows up and nobody can…
Working with JSON and VARIANT in Snowflake: Parsing, Querying, and Performance Tuning
JSON is everywhere: API responses, event logs, clickstream data, and, it’s persisted in your data in Snowflake. But while its flexible nature makes it perfect for capturing real-world data, it can quickly become complex to manage and query. Thankfully, Snowflake…
AI & Automation Trends: The Future of FinOps – AI-Driven Data Cost Optimization
Cloud computing has reshaped how modern enterprises manage, analyze, and scale their data. But as usage grows, so does the complexity of managing cloud costs. Platforms like Snowflake and Databricks deliver powerful data capabilities, yet without clear visibility and control, organizations risk overspending.
Databricks SQL in 2025: What Its Rise Means for Snowflake‑First Teams
Table of Contents 1. Introduction Our internal analysis of enterprise accounts shows that roughly 42% of Snowflake customers also use Databricks. Historically, though, the share that uses Databricks SQL specifically for warehouse/BI workloads has been significantly lower, and that’s exactly…
Snowflake Audit Logs & Alerts: How to Monitor, Detect, and Respond to Critical Events
Although Snowflake contains audit logs and alerts as part of its suite of features, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy to monitor. In fact, most of Snowflake’s native tools for controlling costs and performance are usually only helpful after a…
Snowpark-Optimized Warehouses: How to Configure resource_constraints for Maximum Performance
Learn how to configure Snowpark-optimized warehouse resource_constraints in Snowflake to boost ML, ETL, and data transformation performance while reducing costs.
Snowflake Micro-Partitions & Clustering: How Data Organization Impacts Performance
Most Snowflake users understand warehouses, credits, and queries pretty well. But there’s a lot that goes on “under the hood,” as it were. For example, Snowflake tables are organized into data blocks, called micro-partitions, that enable aggressive pruning of unnecessary…
Snowflake MFA & Key-Pair Authentication: How to Keep Your Data & Infrastructure Secure
Learn how to enable Snowflake MFA and key-pair authentication to protect accounts, meet compliance requirements, and secure your data infrastructure.
Why Your Snowflake Clustering Strategy Is Probably Costing You Money
When teams come to us with Snowflake performance or cost issues, one of the most common culprits we find is poorly configured clustering keys. It’s not glamorous, and it’s rarely the first thing people think about when troubleshooting slow queries…
Snowflake Cortex versus Other LLMs: Pricing, Tradeoffs, Benchmarks, and When to Choose Each
1) Executive summary Most Snowflake customers exploring large language models (LLMs) face a practical fork in the road: Should we start with Snowflake Cortex, adopt a hybrid pattern, or build on an external LLM platform? The best answer depends on…
Snowflake Warehouse Separation vs. Consolidation: A Practical Guide
When to split Snowflake warehouses for performance isolation and when consolidation is better for costs, attribution & simplicity—rules of thumb inside.