Hey HN! I've been a fan of Snowflake since I started using it in my first job out of school. But, powerful as it is, it still comes with its fair share of challenges/gotchas. I've been digging into Snowflake metadata and access controls over the last several months as part of my work on Jetty Core[1], and thought about writing some sort of white paper about best practices to share some of the things I've learned. It turns out there are a lot of those already, so instead I decided to build a living white paper instead.

Jetty Scorecard is an open-source python library/app that connects to a Snowflake account and provides insights and recommendations specific to your configuration. Today it runs 17 checks[2], providing info about things like which tables are the most popular, whether you have misconfigured masking policies, and whether your future grants are being ignored by the system[3].

[1] Multi-platform access management for the data stack. Docs: https://docs.get-jetty.com/ Demo: https://youtu.be/Xx0D6GCTNdc

[2] https://github.com/jettylabs/jetty_scorecard/blob/main/jetty...

[3] https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/grant-privil...