Manage Snowflake Database extensions
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Dynatrace provides you with a framework that you can use to extend your application observability into data acquired directly from your Snowflake Database layer, so that you can monitor how database server tasks impact your app.
Start by checking Dynatrace Hub to see if the Dynatrace-provided Snowflake extension satisfies your requirements.
Before you begin
Designate an ActiveGate group or groups that will remotely connect to your Snowflake Database server to pull data. All ActiveGates in each designated group need to be able to connect to your Snowflake Database server.
Snowflake database extensions don't support connections to databases through proxy servers.
If you are using Dynatrace's Snowflake Extension with basic authentication (password authentication) to connect to Snowflake, please migrate to Programmatic Access Tokens (PAT) or adopt the Dynatrace Snowflake Observability Agent.
Manage Snowflake Database extensions
Extension Manager
Latest Dynatrace
Now you can use the dedicated Extensions app to manage your extensions. It provides a similar activation and configuration workflow as Dynatrace Hub in the previous Dynatrace. Additionally, it gives you direct access to extension health monitoring.
- To use the app:
- In Dynatrace Hub
, select and install the app. - The Hub listing provides information on the permissions required to use the app (the Technical information tab).
- In Dynatrace Hub
Dynatrace Hub provides a unified workflow to enable and manage extensions that ingest Snowflake data into your Dynatrace environment.
Required permission: Change monitoring settings
- In Dynatrace Hub, select and install Snowflake. This enables the extension in your monitoring environment.
- Add a monitoring configuration so that the extension can begin collecting data.
Define endpoints
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Select Add Snowflake Database endpoint to define the servers from which you want to pull data. You can define up to 100 endpoints. Provide the following connection details:
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Host
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Port
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Database name
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Warehouse
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Schema
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Authentication credentials
- Programmatic Access Token (PAT). For PAT configuration details, see Authentication.
- Credential vault provides a more secure approach of storing and managing user credentials.
Authentication details passed to Dynatrace when activating monitoring configuration are obfuscated and it's impossible to retrieve them.
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Select Next step.
Select ActiveGates
- Select the ActiveGate group to determine which ActiveGates will run the extension.
- Select Next step.
Activate the extension
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Provide final configuration details:
- Description: Text explaining details of this particular monitoring configuration. When your teams are troubleshooting monitoring, this can give them important details.
- Feature sets: In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. You can use them to limit your monitoring to particular segments. Feature sets are predefined for each extension.
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Select Activate.
Monitoring configuration as JSON
The extension activation wizard contains a dynamically updated JSON payload with your monitoring configuration. To learn how to use it to activate an extension using the Dynatrace API, see Manage Extensions.
Related topics
Extensions