Why Connect Snowflake to Prizm?
Connecting Snowflake gives Prizm access to three layers of intelligence: Catalog & Context Prizm discovers every database, schema, table, view, and column in your Snowflake account and indexes them in the Prizm catalog. Tags defined in Snowflake are imported automatically. Descriptions, owners, and classifications can be managed in Prizm and optionally written back to Snowflake. Data Quality & Profiling Prizm runs profile scans on your tables to compute null rates, cardinality, min/max, distribution, and completeness scores at the column level. Quality scores are tracked over time so you can see trends and catch degradation before it reaches consumers. Observability Prizm monitors every in-scope table for freshness (last updated time), volume (row count changes), and schema drift (added, removed, or renamed columns). Machine-learning anomaly detection sets adaptive thresholds so alerts fire on real deviations — not noise.Feature Support
| Category | Capability | Support |
|---|---|---|
| Observability | Freshness monitoring | ✅ |
| Observability | Volume monitoring | ✅ |
| Observability | Schema change detection | ✅ |
| Observability | Null rate & distribution drift alerts | ✅ |
| Quality | Column-level profiling (null rate, cardinality, min/max, mean, std dev) | ✅ |
| Quality | Duplicate row detection | ✅ |
| Quality | Custom SQL quality rules | ✅ |
| Catalog | Metadata discovery (databases, schemas, tables, views, columns) | ✅ |
| Catalog | Tag ingestion — Snowflake → Prizm | ✅ |
| Catalog | Tag bi-directional sync | ✅ (Enterprise) |
| Lineage | Table-level lineage | ✅ |
| Lineage | Column-level lineage | ✅ (Enterprise) |
| Performance | Query performance (execution time, bytes scanned) | ✅ |
| Performance | Warehouse compute & storage cost | ✅ |
Supported Snowflake Objects
| Object | Catalog | Quality | Observability | Lineage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| View | ✅ | — | Schema only | ✅ |
Column-level lineage requires the Enterprise Snowflake edition to access
SNOWFLAKE.CORE.GET_LINEAGE. Standard edition uses query log parsing to derive lineage.Next Steps
Setup
Connect Snowflake to Prizm — prerequisites, authentication, and configuration.
What We Collect
Full field-level breakdown of every metadata object Prizm extracts from Snowflake.
FAQ
Common questions about the Snowflake connector.
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