Compute monitoring and run observability for Notebooks in Workspaces

UpdateJul 31, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

With this release, Snowflake Notebooks in Workspaces gives you more visibility and control over the compute that runs your notebooks, both while you develop interactively and when you troubleshoot scheduled runs.

Notebooks Observability

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https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/2026/other/2026-07-31-notebooks-compute-monitoring

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