SELECT
Snowflake Cost Observability and Optimization
Overview
SELECT offers a comprehensive platform for managing and optimizing Snowflake costs. It provides detailed visibility into every workload, enabling teams to understand and allocate costs effectively. The platform also includes intelligent insights and automated optimizations to ensure efficient use of Snowflake resources, claiming to save users 10-20% on their compute spend instantly.
✨ Key Features
- Snowflake cost visibility
- Workload-level cost analysis
- Automated warehouse optimization
- Budgeting and alerting
- Intelligent insights for optimization opportunities
- Usage group cost allocation
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Automated warehouse optimization
- Deep query-level cost analysis
- Focus exclusively on Snowflake
Unique Value: Provides unparalleled visibility into Snowflake costs and automatically optimizes warehouse usage to generate immediate savings, enabling teams to manage their Snowflake investment effectively.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Automatically right-sizing virtual warehouses to match workload.
- Identifying and attributing costly queries to specific users or teams.
- Setting up monitors to alert teams of budget overspend.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Organizations not using Snowflake
- Monitoring and optimizing other parts of the data stack (e.g., ETL, BI)
- Data quality or data lineage monitoring
🏆 Alternatives
While Snowflake offers native cost management tools, SELECT provides more granular insights, better attribution, and automated optimization actions that save teams time and money.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: Free 'Health Check' native app in Snowflake Marketplace.
📊 Market Info
Customers: 50-150
Total Funding: $28.0M
🔄 Similar Tools in Warehouse Optimization
Snowflake
A cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse-as-a-service....
Databricks
A unified data analytics platform for data engineering, data science, and machine learning....
Google BigQuery
A fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data....
Amazon Redshift
A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud....
dbt (Data Build Tool)
A transformation workflow tool that lets teams deploy analytics code....
Fivetran
An automated data movement platform that reliably moves data from source systems into data warehouse...