Event tables

Modern cloud data platforms have evolved to handle diverse use cases that go beyond traditional data warehousing. These days, Snowflake powers everything from transactional workloads to native apps and microservices, often working together as part of a unified system. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing the operation of such diverse workloads requires gathering and organizing logs and telemetry data about their operation. Telemetry is the information collected and transmitted by a system regarding its performance or status, such as logs, resource usage, interactions, and sensor readings. With so much operating data being constantly generated, users need a comprehensive and consistent way to monitor and alert on trends and anomalies.

Snowflake event tables offer an automated solution for capturing and analyzing all that telemetry data using native and industry-standard logging and tracing features in a single place. Event tables use a predefined set of columns...