Understand Your Snowflake Storage
Understand Your Snowflake Storage
Snowflake Storage Intelligence
Gain complete visibility into storage usage across multiple Snowflake accounts — identify inactive data, monitor growth trends, and optimize storage costs before they escalate.
The Problem
The Problem
Snowflake Storage Is Hard to Understand
Snowflake Storage Is Hard to Understand
Snowflake Storage Is Hard to Understand
As Snowflake environments scale, storage spreads across databases, schemas, staging layers, and unused tables. Without clear visibility, teams struggle to understand where storage is growing and what is actually being used.
This often leads to unused datasets accumulating, storage costs increasing, and teams relying on manual analysis to identify optimization opportunities.
Which databases consume the most storage
Which tables haven’t been accessed in months
Where unused storage is accumulating
How Time Travel and Fail-safe impact storage costs
The Solution
Storage Intelligence for Modern Snowflake Teams
Anavsan Storage Insights provides a unified, interactive view of storage usage across your Snowflake environment.
Quickly understand how storage is distributed across databases, schemas, and tables, identify inactive datasets, and monitor growth trends to proactively optimize storage utilization.
Discover features designed to simplify workflows, boost productivity, and improve team collaboration seamlessly.
00:00: Anavsan Storage Intelligence helps teams understand Snowflake storage use and reduce unnecessary consumption.
00:07: In this demo, we’ll explore how Anavsan highlights opportunities to optimize storage across your data environment.
00:13: Anavsan provides a storage overview across all databases within your Snowflake environment.
00:19: This allows teams to quickly understand how storage is distributed and identify databases that contribute most to usage.
00:26: Click schemas to explore the database and schema structure.
00:32: Reviewing schema details helps teams understand storage structure and locate large datasets.
00:38: Anavsan offers insights on storage distribution across datasets, helping identify large tables.
00:47: Anavsan spots tables that haven’t been accessed recently.
00:51: The Unused Tables view highlights datasets that remain unused but still consume storage.
01:02: Tables inactive for over 30 days can be archived or deleted to reduce costs.
01:10: Anavsan Storage Intelligence helps teams find unused tables and storage inefficiencies in Snowflake.
01:21: Gain the clarity needed to act on inactive data and keep your Snowflake environment efficient.
Multi-Account Visibility
Multi-Account Visibility
Monitor storage usage across multiple Snowflake accounts from a single unified view.
Monitor storage usage across multiple Snowflake accounts from a single unified view.
Storage Growth Trends
Storage Growth Trends
Track how storage evolves over time and detect unexpected growth early.
Track how storage evolves over time and detect unexpected growth early.
Unused Table Detection
Unused Table Detection
Identify tables that have not been accessed recently and remove unnecessary storage consumption.
Identify tables that have not been accessed recently and remove unnecessary storage consumption.
Largest Storage Consumers
Largest Storage Consumers
Quickly discover which databases, schemas, and tables contribute most to storage usage.
Quickly discover which databases, schemas, and tables contribute most to storage usage.
Key Capabilities
Key Capabilities
Storage Overview
Storage Overview
Storage Overview Dashboard
Storage Overview Dashboard
The Storage Overview dashboard provides a high-level snapshot of storage utilization across Snowflake accounts. Interactive widgets allow teams to quickly assess storage distribution, environment scale, and potential inefficiencies.
Quickly understand the scale of your Snowflake environment with visibility into:
The Storage Overview dashboard provides a high-level snapshot of storage utilization across Snowflake accounts. Interactive widgets allow teams to quickly assess storage distribution, environment scale, and potential inefficiencies.
Quickly understand the scale of your Snowflake environment with visibility into:
Total storage consumption
Total storage consumption
Number of databases across environments
Number of databases across environments
Total schemas and tables
Total schemas and tables
Unused tables consuming storage
Unused tables consuming storage
Storage allocated to Time Travel
Storage allocated to Time Travel
Storage allocated to Fail-safe recovery
Storage allocated to Fail-safe recovery
This provides an immediate understanding of the overall storage footprint across your Snowflake environment.
This provides an immediate understanding of the overall storage footprint across your Snowflake environment.
Table Type Insights
Table Type Insights
Understand How Data Is Stored
Understand How Data Is Stored
Different table types behave differently in Snowflake environments.
Storage Insights provides a breakdown of tables across:
Different table types behave differently in Snowflake environments.
Storage Insights provides a breakdown of tables across:
Permanent tables used for long-term storage
Permanent tables used for long-term storage
Transient tables designed for intermediate workloads
Transient tables designed for intermediate workloads
Temporary tables created during sessions
Temporary tables created during sessions
Hybrid tables supporting transactional workloads
Hybrid tables supporting transactional workloads
Dynamic tables used for automated pipeline transformations
Dynamic tables used for automated pipeline transformations
This helps teams understand how storage is structured across workloads and identify opportunities to optimize table usage.
This helps teams understand how storage is structured across workloads and identify opportunities to optimize table usage.
Storage Growth Trends
Storage Growth Trends
Track Storage Growth Over Time
Track Storage Growth Over Time
Storage Insights provides time-based visualizations showing how storage evolves across Snowflake environments.
Teams can:
Storage Insights provides time-based visualizations showing how storage evolves across Snowflake environments.
Teams can:
Monitor storage growth trends
Monitor storage growth trends
Detect unusual spikes in storage usage
Detect unusual spikes in storage usage
Forecast future storage needs
Forecast future storage needs
Investigate changes caused by pipelines or retention policies
Investigate changes caused by pipelines or retention policies
This enables proactive management of storage consumption before costs increase.
This enables proactive management of storage consumption before costs increase.
Table Type Insights
Table Type Insights
Identify the Largest Storage Consumers
Identify the Largest Storage Consumers
Storage Insights highlights the datasets consuming the most storage in your environment.
Storage Insights highlights the datasets consuming the most storage in your environment.
Top Databases by Size
Top Databases by Size
Top Schemas by Size
Top Schemas by Size
Top Tables by Size
Top Tables by Size
This allows teams to prioritize optimization efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
This allows teams to prioritize optimization efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Storage Optimization Recommendations
Storage Optimization Recommendations
Detect Unused Storage
Detect Unused Storage
Storage Insights automatically identifies tables that have been inactive for more than 30 days.
Inactive datasets often remain in Snowflake environments long after they stop being used.
By surfacing these tables along with their storage footprint, teams can review and decide whether the data should be archived, removed, or retained.
This helps organizations reduce storage waste and maintain efficient data environments.
Storage Insights automatically identifies tables that have been inactive for more than 30 days.
Inactive datasets often remain in Snowflake environments long after they stop being used.
By surfacing these tables along with their storage footprint, teams can review and decide whether the data should be archived, removed, or retained.
This helps organizations reduce storage waste and maintain efficient data environments.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the primary function of Anavsan and its AI capability?
Does Anavsan take an organization's proprietary data?
What measurable financial impact can we expect from using Anavsan?
How does Anavsan help prevent new runaway workloads and future unnecessary costs?
How does Anavsan support workflow and collaboration between FinOps and engineers?
Can Anavsan consolidate monitoring across multiple Snowflake accounts?
How does Anavsan help data engineers manage and track query changes?
Does Anavsan only report on cost or does it suggest fixes for root causes?
How do we get started and connect our Snowflake account to Anavsan?
What does the Anavsan Snowflake Native App provide?
How does Anavsan support Snowflake Professional Services partners?
Does Anavsan offer OEM or white-label options for partners?
What is the primary function of Anavsan and its AI capability?
Does Anavsan take an organization's proprietary data?
What measurable financial impact can we expect from using Anavsan?
Anavsan is designed to achieve an estimated savings potential of 30 to 60 percent reduction in Snowflake compute spend within 60 days. Furthermore, it provides per-account credit forecasting to predict burn, allowing teams to act early before the invoice blows up and eliminate budget surprises.
How does Anavsan help prevent new runaway workloads and future unnecessary costs?
How does Anavsan support workflow and collaboration between FinOps and engineers?
Can Anavsan consolidate monitoring across multiple Snowflake accounts?
How does Anavsan help data engineers manage and track query changes?
Does Anavsan only report on cost or does it suggest fixes for root causes?
How do we get started and connect our Snowflake account to Anavsan?
What does the Anavsan Snowflake Native App provide?
How does Anavsan support Snowflake Professional Services partners?
Does Anavsan offer OEM or white-label options for partners?
Have Questions? We're Here to Help!
Have Questions? We're Here to Help!
Reach out to our support team for any queries or assistance.
Reach out to our support team for any queries or assistance.