How to Create Business Dashboards with Snowflake and Grafana Cloud

Grafana

Jun 11, 2025

Ready to bring your Snowflake data into Grafana dashboards? In this Grafana Quickstart, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Snowflake to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin — available on all tiers, including Cloud Free.

We’ll cover:
✅ Setting up the Snowflake data source in Grafana Cloud
✅ Retrieving account info, roles, and warehouse settings from the Snowflake UI
✅ Building queries for business KPIs using SQL
✅ Creating a dynamic dashboard with totals, product-level revenue, and pie charts
✅ Using variables to add dropdown filters to your dashboards

Chapters:

00:00 Plugin overview + Cloud Support

00:30 Installing the Snowflake plugin in Grafana Cloud

01:15 Getting credentials and account details from Snowflake

03:20 Setting up warehouse, database, and schema

06:00 Querying orders and creating dashboards

07:45 Visualizing total revenue

09:25 Creating a pie chart for revenue per product

11:14 Adding variables to filter by product

12:45 Tying it all together for a business dashboard

📘 Docs: [https://grafana.com/docs/plugins/grafana-snowflake-datasource/latest/]
🔗 Try Grafana Cloud for free: [https://grafana.com/]

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