Unravel Data – AI-driven cost and performance optimization
Overview
Unravel Data – AI-driven cost and performance optimization is a Snowflake native app that enables organizations to maximize the value of their Snowflake environment through advanced cost intelligence, performance improvement, and operational efficiency. Purpose-built AI delivers deep, correlated visibility into cost, workload, and performance, providing actionable insights and automated guardrails for continuous optimization and governance. This enables organizations to reduce spend, accelerate innovation, and ensure operational efficiency, supporting FinOps best practices and data observability at scale.
Key Features
Native Snowflake experience: Deployed directly within your Snowflake account using Snowflake Container Services for secure, seamless integration.
Comprehensive insights: Instantly receive a Health Check with projected annual savings, performance gains, and productivity improvements.
AI-driven recommendations: Get actionable suggestions for query optimization, warehouse sizing, and configuration improvements.
Granular visibility and smart tagging: Track costs by user, query, warehouse, or department, and use smart tagging for detailed chargeback and trend analysis.
Baked-in governance and security: Only metadata is accessed; no sensitive data leaves your Snowflake environment unless explicitly configured.
Use case examples
Cost and performance optimization for analytics: An analytics team uses Unravel to identify and address inefficient queries and oversized warehouses. By following Unravel’s recommendations, they reduce unnecessary spend and improve report delivery times.
Data pipeline optimization: An organization leverages Unravel to monitor and optimize data pipelines that move and transform data across systems. The app highlights inefficiencies and suggests adjustments, resulting in more efficient data processing and timely reporting.
FinOps enablement for IT departments: An IT department uses Unravel’s smart tagging to allocate costs by project and department, supporting precise chargebacks and budget tracking. Automated guardrails help prevent budget overruns and support proactive cost governance.
Proactive Spend Management: Unravel provides early warning systems for uncontrolled spending and offers AI-driven recommendations to optimize code and infrastructure, reducing unnecessary cloud data costs
Get started
Sign in to your Snowflake account.
Navigate to Data Products in the main menu.
Select Marketplace.
In the Marketplace search bar, type Unravel Data.
Locate the app titled Unravel Data – AI-driven cost and performance optimization.
Click Get to add the app to your Snowflake environment.
Initial Setup
In the Options panel, enter a name for your application in the Application name field. By default, this is set to AIdriven_cost_and_performance_optimization, but you may customize it as needed.
Select the warehouse to use for installation.
Click Get to begin installation.
Follow any additional in-app prompts to complete setup and grant the necessary permissions for metadata access.
Next Steps
Explore dashboards for real-time monitoring of cost and performance KPIs.
Implement AI-driven recommendations to optimize queries, warehouses, and configurations.
Set up alerts and guardrails to proactively manage spend and prevent inefficiencies.
Use smart tagging to allocate costs by user, department, or project for accurate chargebacks and reporting.
Contact Unravel support for advanced configuration, scaling guidance, or troubleshooting.