Observability with Snowflake Trail
1. Observability with Snowflake Trail
We've covered the foundational concepts of observability. So how exactly does Snowflake implement them? Observability with Snowflake is made up of a few foundational objects and features. Event tables, alerts, and notifications. Event tables are a special type of table in Snowflake. They're used for storing logs and traces that are generated from code in your Snowflake environment. They're straightforward to set up and use, and I'll show you how to do that shortly. If you need to record an alert when data in Snowflake meets certain conditions, you can use a Snowflake alert. These are very handy when combined with notifications so that you can help promote action on your team. And this is because you can take alerts one step further with notifications. For example, you can use an alert to send a notification to, say, an email address or a queue. You can imagine specific notifications being useful to your teammates who may be keeping track of different dimensions of a data pipeline. This collective set of native features within Snowflake represents Snowflake's observability framework, formerly known as Snowflake Trail. This framework makes it easy to apply the foundational concepts that we just covered to your data pipelines. Apart from its ease of use, my favorite thing about Snowflake Trail is that it's built on the OpenTelemetry standard. If you're not familiar with it, the OpenTelemetry standard is a vendor-neutral, open-source standard that defines a consistent way to capture telemetry like logs, traces, and metrics. This means that if you've worked with telemetry and other platforms that follow this standard, then your experience with Snowflake Trail will be familiar and seamless. So join me in the next exercise to get hands-on with the foundational element of observability in Snowflake, event tables.2. Let's practice!
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