A single pane of glass into all your connected accounts

We’ve heard from many of our customers that they want it to be easier to manage costs from multiple accounts, and want to just view all their costs in the same place.

This update gets straight to the root of this problem, and brings all costs together into a single pane. If you have more than one account connected to SELECT, you’ll now see all of the costs for those accounts available on the homepage, and on all of the workload page.

• No more switching accounts. “Snowflake Account” and “Snowflake Organisation” are now just another column you can filter on and group by.
• Search just works. Forgotten which account a particular warehouse is in? Our existing search experience will search all of the accounts you have access to, and find it regardless of where in the UI you are.
• New cost explorer. We’ve redesigned our “Explorer” tab, which now has a drill down experience which enables you to dig into spend starting by looking at spend across multiple accounts and dig right down into the workload by workload level of detail.
• Usage groups now apply across accounts and organisations. You can also use fields like the names and locators of snowflake accounts as part of the definitions.
• Monitors can monitor workloads from multiple accounts. Have the same workloads running in multiple regions? Now you can keep tabs on their spend in a single monitor. The execution of monitors can also now be configured to run after the sync of a single account, or to run after the sync of all accounts so that you know that you’re seeing the freshest relevant data.

Permissions

To support this change, we’ve also given an overhaul to permissions and role based access, in a way which simplifies management.

• Previously created monitors, saved views, and usage group sets now belong to Teams that we automatically created based on your connected accounts. Previously, the permission to edit a usage group or edit a team was related to the permissions you had on the account those objects referred to. For Admin users, it’s still possible to create monitors, saved views and usage groups that are scoped to the whole SELECT Organisation, but for most users this opens up the ability to use these features, even when their read access might be limited to a single account, or even a single Usage Group.
• This also means that the ability to create Usage Groups can be delegated to team leaders more effectively while keeping assets belonging to one team out of the way of other teams.

Looking forward

This change also sets up the experience for us to bring Databricks into the fold, and allow users with both Snowflake and Databricks accounts connected, to monitor and compare spend from both platforms in a single pane.