row_count
from the Snowflake table information schema. As the monitor queries the information schema, you only incur minimal additional costs even when they are run frequently. The monitor works out of the box, which makes it easy to deploy at scale.
Unless you need custom functionality, such as grouping by a different time field, we recommend you use default volume monitors.
Default volume monitors are run every 60 minutes.
Health
→ Manage monitors
Create monitor group
to define the tables you want to monitorVolume
to set up a volume monitor group
continue
to set up the monitor
Add Monitor
(you can only set up monitors on a data warehouse table. If you’re on a dbt model representation, click the link to the warehouse table to see the button)
Volume
to start creating a custom volume monitor
variable
to segment by (optional). This will create multiple time series for each segment you select to include
Selected values
and select the desired valuesAll values
, new values are automatically added.continue
to set up the monitor with the specified configurations