Snowflake Status: How to Check If Snowflake Is Down Right Now (2026)
Updated June 2026 · 8 min read · API Status Check
Quick Answer
Check Snowflake status at status.snowflake.com (official) for real-time status per cloud provider and region. Make sure to check your specific cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and region — outages are often isolated to one deployment.
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The Official Snowflake Status Page
Snowflake maintains an official status page at status.snowflake.com. It shows real-time status for every Snowflake deployment across three cloud providers and dozens of regions:
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Snowflake status is per-region. Before checking the status page, identify your exact deployment:
From Your Account URL
Your Snowflake account URL format is: <orgname>-<accountname>.snowflakecomputing.com. For older accounts it may be <accountname>.<region>.<cloud>.snowflakecomputing.com (e.g., xy12345.us-east-1.aws.snowflakecomputing.com). The region and cloud appear directly in this URL.
Using SQL
Run SELECT CURRENT_REGION() in a Snowflake worksheet. This returns your account's cloud region (e.g., "AWS_US_EAST_1"). Match this against the status.snowflake.com region list.
SELECT CURRENT_REGION(), CURRENT_ACCOUNT(), CURRENT_ORGANIZATION_NAME();From Snowsight
Log into Snowsight (app.snowflake.com), click your account name in the lower left, and hover over your account. The account details show your cloud provider and region.
For Multi-Region Deployments (Business Critical)
Business Critical and VPS (Virtual Private Snowflake) accounts may have replication across multiple regions. Check all regions your account replicates to — a regional outage affects the replica in that region but failover may be available.
5 Ways to Check Snowflake Status Right Now
Official Snowflake Status Page
Visit status.snowflake.com and filter to your cloud provider and region. Subscribe to email notifications for your specific region.
status.snowflake.com →Run a Test Query
Log in to Snowsight and run SELECT 1 against your account. If this basic query fails with a connection error or times out, Snowflake itself is likely down in your region.
-- Quick connectivity test
SELECT 1;
-- Check warehouse status
SHOW WAREHOUSES;
-- Confirm region
SELECT CURRENT_REGION();Test via SnowSQL CLI
Use the SnowSQL CLI to test connectivity outside of the browser UI, confirming whether the issue is browser-specific or a full platform outage.
snowsql -a <orgname>-<accountname> -u <username>
# Or with connection string:
snowsql -c my_connection --query "SELECT 1"X/Twitter Search
Search 'Snowflake down' or 'Snowflake outage' on X. Data engineers and analytics teams report Snowflake issues quickly, especially when ETL jobs fail en masse.
Search X for 'snowflake down' →Snowflake Community & Support
Check the Snowflake Community forum or open a support case. For Enterprise or Business Critical customers, Snowflake offers 24/7 support with faster response SLAs.
Snowflake Community →Common Snowflake Errors During Outages
These are the errors you'll see when Snowflake is experiencing issues:
"000403: Your free trial has ended / 002003: User does not exist"Authentication errors — confirm this is not a credentials issue. If other users are also locked out, it may be an auth service outage. Check status.snowflake.com Authentication component."JDBC/ODBC: Connection refused / network timeout"The Snowflake endpoint is unreachable. This is a strong indicator of a regional outage or a network issue between your host and Snowflake. Check status.snowflake.com for your region first, then verify your network can reach snowflakecomputing.com."SQL execution error: warehouse is not running"Not an outage — your virtual warehouse is SUSPENDED due to auto-suspend or was manually stopped. Run ALTER WAREHOUSE my_wh RESUME; to restart it. If resume fails repeatedly, check for warehouse provisioning issues on the status page."dbt: Database Error: 250001: Failed to connect to DB"dbt cannot connect to Snowflake. Check your dbt profiles.yml connection settings first (account, user, password, role). If settings are correct, Snowflake may be down. Run snowsql or try Snowsight login to isolate whether it's dbt config or a platform issue."Fivetran/Airbyte sync failed: QUERY_TIMEOUT or EXECUTION_CANCELED"ETL connector queries are timing out. During degraded performance, long-running MERGE or COPY operations exceed timeout thresholds. Check if the issue is platform-wide (status page) or query-specific (warehouse size too small for the data volume)."Snowpipe: files not loading / ingest queue backlog"During Snowpipe outages, files stage in S3/Azure Blob/GCS but are not loaded. The files are not lost — they will load when Snowflake recovers. Check Snowpipe status at status.snowflake.com and use SYSTEM$PIPE_STATUS('my_pipe') to check queue depth.What to Do When Snowflake Is Down
Immediate Response
- Check status.snowflake.com for your specific cloud and region
- Pause or reschedule ETL jobs to avoid failed run logging and retry storms
- Notify BI and analytics team — dashboards will show stale data
- Check Snowpipe queue depth — files are not lost, they queue in cloud storage
- Open a P1 support ticket for Enterprise+ customers to get SLA credit
- Communicate expected impact and recovery ETA to data consumers
Long-Term Resilience
- Enable cross-region replication for Business Critical accounts
- Design ETL pipelines with idempotent MERGE operations for safe retry
- Use Snowflake Failover Groups for automatic redirect during regional outages
- Build retry logic with exponential backoff into all Snowflake connections
- Cache critical dashboard queries in your BI layer for degraded-mode display
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the official Snowflake status page?
Snowflake's official status page is at status.snowflake.com. It tracks status per cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and region. Subscribe to email notifications for your specific region. Note that Snowflake's status page may lag actual incidents by 5–15 minutes — an independent monitor that tests a real query provides faster detection.
Will my Snowpipe data be lost if Snowflake goes down?
No — Snowpipe data is not lost during a Snowflake outage. Files staged in your external stage (S3, Azure Blob, GCS) remain there. Snowpipe will resume loading files after recovery. You can check the queue backlog using SYSTEM$PIPE_STATUS('pipe_name'). The only risk is if your cloud storage has its own retention policy that deletes files before Snowflake recovers.
My Snowflake queries are slow but the status page is green. What should I check?
Slow queries when status is green are almost always a query/warehouse issue, not a platform outage. In Snowsight, open the query profile for the slow query — look for partition scanning (full table scans instead of partition pruning), spilling to local disk (warehouse too small), or large join operations. Check SHOW WAREHOUSES to confirm your warehouse is RUNNING and sized appropriately for the workload.
Does Snowflake have an SLA for uptime?
Yes. Snowflake Business Critical and Enterprise editions include an SLA (typically 99.9% monthly uptime). For outage credits, you must open a support case within a specified window (usually 30 days) of the incident. Snowflake's standard edition has a best-effort SLA. Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) deployments have separate SLA terms.
How does Snowflake status compare to Databricks or BigQuery for reliability?
All three platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) target 99.9%+ uptime and maintain public status pages. BigQuery is hosted on Google Cloud's infrastructure and benefits from GCP's global footprint. Databricks on AWS/Azure/GCP leverages its host cloud's reliability. Snowflake runs its own multi-cloud abstraction layer. In practice, major outages on all three platforms are rare but do occur — independent query-level monitoring provides faster detection than relying solely on official status pages.
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