snowflake-telemetry-python

What it is and what it does

Snowflake Telemetry Python is a bridge between Python code running inside Snowflake's compute environment and the OpenTelemetry observability standard. It lets you instrument UDFs, UDTFs, and Stored Procedures to emit structured telemetry—traces, metrics, or logs—using the opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk. The package handles the integration details so you can focus on adding observability to your Snowflake workloads.

This is primarily useful for teams running data processing or business logic inside Snowflake who need visibility into execution, performance, or errors. It's not a general-purpose telemetry library; it's purpose-built for Snowflake's Python execution context. The package is actively maintained and supports modern Python versions (3.9 through 3.14).

Use it for:

• Trace execution flow and timing of complex UDFs to identify performance bottlenecks in data transformations.
• Emit structured logs from Stored Procedures to correlate with external monitoring systems.
• Monitor error rates and exceptions in UDTFs processing large datasets within Snowflake.
• Export telemetry to external observability platforms for centralized visibility into Snowflake workloads.
• Debug data quality issues by instrumenting UDFs with detailed span attributes and events.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Emits telemetry data from Python UDFs, UDTFs, and Stored Procedures running in Snowflake, using the OpenTelemetry API and SDK.

Yes, if you run Python UDFs, UDTFs, or Stored Procedures in Snowflake and need observability. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, permissive licensing, and no known vulnerabilities. Install only if you're already using Snowflake's Python compute—it has no value outside that context.

Install

snowflake-telemetry-python on PyPI

pip install snowflake-telemetry-python

uv add snowflake-telemetry-python

poetry add snowflake-telemetry-python

Installing snowflake-telemetry-python

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a recent release; last commit on 2026-04-08. Depends on opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk, both standard observability libraries.

License in practice

Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), which allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart

pip install snowflake-telemetry-python

from snowflake.telemetry import get_tracer

tracer = get_tracer(__name__)
with tracer.start_as_current_span("operation") as span:
    # Your UDF/UDTF/Stored Procedure code here
    pass

Requires Python 3.9 or later (supports 3.9 through 3.14). Designed to run within Snowflake's Python execution environment for UDFs, UDTFs, and Stored Procedures.

Verify before relying

• Whether telemetry data is automatically exported to Snowflake's backend or requires manual configuration of an exporter.
• What telemetry signal types (traces, metrics, logs) are supported by this package.
• Performance overhead of instrumentation in production workloads.
• Compatibility with Snowflake's specific Python runtime versions and isolation model.

Package facts

Evidence: snowflake_telemetry_python-0.8.0-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: Snowflake, db, database, cloud, analytics, warehouse

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