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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Snowflake Resource Monitor

A Snowflake object that tracks credit usage by warehouses against a quota and can notify, suspend, or suspend immediately at thresholds.

Definition

Resource monitors are created by ACCOUNTADMIN and set at account level or assigned to warehouses. They control user-managed warehouse credits only, not serverless features. Actions are NOTIFY, SUSPEND (after running queries finish) and SUSPEND_IMMEDIATE.

Example

CREATE RESOURCE MONITOR rm1 WITH CREDIT_QUOTA = 100 TRIGGERS ON 90 PERCENT DO SUSPEND;

Exam tip

Resource monitors don't control serverless costs such as Snowpipe or automatic clustering; use budgets for those.

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