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# Fundamentals

- [Getting set up](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up.md): Connect Seemore to your Snowflake account, data tools, and authentication provider. Setup typically takes under 20 minutes.
- [Setting Integrations](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations.md)
- [Snowflake](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/snowflake.md): Seemore>Data natively supports Snowflake, which allows you to integrate your Snowflake account with your Seemore's workspace seamlessly.
- [Create Snowflake User and Privileges](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/snowflake/create-snowflake-user-and-privileges.md): In this section, we'll take care of having the prerequisites for creating a Snowflake - Seemore integration.
- [Integration with Seemore](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/snowflake/integration-with-seemore.md)
- [dbt](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/dbt.md): Seemore supports dbt Cloud and dbt Core to enrich your metadata with transformation context, lineage, and cost attribution.
- [dbt Cloud](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/dbt/dbt-cloud.md): If you have a dbt Cloud account, Seemore can use the Cloud APIs and dbt Metadata APIs to enrich your metadata in Seemore.
- [dbt Core](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/dbt/dbt-core.md): DBT Core integration to Seemore>data
- [Airflow](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/airflow.md): Seemore natively supports Airflow, which allows you to integrate your Airflow with your Seemore workspace seamlessly.
- [Airflow (Astronomer)](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/airflow/airflow-astronomer.md): Seemore natively supports Airflow, which allows you to integrate your Airflow with your Seemore workspace seamlessly.
- [Airflow (Composer)](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/airflow/airflow-composer.md): Seemore natively supports Airflow, which allows you to integrate your Airflow with your Seemore workspace seamlessly.
- [Airflow](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/airflow/airflow.md): Seemore natively supports Airflow, which allows you to integrate your Airflow with your Seemore workspace seamlessly.
- [Rivery](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/rivery.md)
- [Fivetran](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/fivetran.md): To integrate Seemore with your Fivetran account,  you need a user with appropriate permissions and an API key for authentication.
- [Looker](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/looker.md): Seemore natively supports Looker, which allows you to seamlessly integrate your Looker with your Seemore workspace.
- [PowerBI](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/powerbi.md): Seemore natively supports PowerBI, which allows you to seamlessly integrate your PowerBi with your Seemore workspace.
- [Tableau](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/setting-integrations/tableau.md): This guide will allow integrating Tableau to the Seemore platform.
- [Authentication](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/authentication.md): Configure single sign-on and user provisioning for your Seemore workspace.
- [Setup Okta SSO](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/authentication/setup-okta-sso.md)
- [Setup Microsoft Entra ID SSO](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/getting-set-up/authentication/setup-entra-id-sso.md)
- [Our Features](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features.md): Seemore's automation and monitoring features continuously optimize your Snowflake environment — reducing costs, improving performance, and surfacing actionable insights without manual effort.
- [Automations](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations.md): Hands-free optimizations that continuously reduce your Snowflake compute spend while keeping performance intact.
- [Auto Shutdown](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations/auto-shutdown.md): This automation helps you reduce Snowflake compute costs by automatically shutting down idle warehouses.
- [Auto Scaler](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations/auto-scaler.md): This automation optimizes multi-cluster warehouses by scaling cluster count in based on actual query load, reducing idle cluster spend.
- [Smart Pulse](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations/smart-pulse.md): Our automatic configuration scheduler, the best way to optimize your warehouse configuration dynamically.
- [Burst Protector](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations/smart-pulse/burst-protector.md): A safety net for Smart Pulse that automatically handles sudden query spikes by temporarily scaling up warehouse capacity.
- [Live Tuning](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/automations/live-tuning.md): Temporarily override a warehouse's configuration to handle high query load, with automatic revert after a set duration.
- [Auto-Clustering Agent](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/auto-clustering-agent.md): Helps you choose the right clustering keys and decide where to enable clustering, where to keep it, and where to remove it to save money.
- [Query Analyzer](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/query-analyzer.md): Query Analyzer is an Agent that generates a structured analysis of the selected query using available plan/profile/history signals.
- [Observability](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/observability.md): Tools for exploring, filtering, and understanding your Snowflake cost and query data across the platform.
- [Views](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/observability/views.md): Save and reuse filter configurations across screens for faster, repeatable analysis.
- [Contract View](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/observability/contract-view.md): Track your Snowflake contract spend, consumption trends, and savings.
- [Query Tags](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/observability/query-tags.md): Filter, group, and attribute Snowflake query costs to the tools and pipelines that generated them using automatically extracted query tags.
- [Waste Reduction](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction.md): Identify and eliminate wasted spend across your data infrastructure — from orphan tables and unused pipelines to over-scheduled refreshes and idle BI licenses.
- [Orphan Tables](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction/orphan-tables.md): Identify tables and views with no pipeline connections and zero query activity so you can safely drop them to reclaim storage.
- [Unused Data Flows](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction/unused-data-flows.md): Find tables that are actively written to by pipelines but never read — the upstream compute and orchestration cost is pure waste.
- [Frequency Optimization](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction/frequency-optimization.md): Identify tables that are refreshed far more often than they are read and reduce pipeline frequency to save compute.
- [Inactive Users](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction/inactive-users.md): Identify BI platform users who haven't logged in within a configurable threshold and reclaim their licenses to reduce subscription costs.
- [Compute Idle Optimization](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/waste-reduction/compute-idle-optimization.md): Detect high-frequency queries that keep Snowflake warehouses alive unnecessarily and reclaim wasted idle compute spend.
- [Cortex Code Cost Control](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/cortex-code-cost-control.md): Set daily credit limits for Snowflake Cortex Code usage at the account or per-user level, split by Snowsight and CLI.
- [Real Time Monitoring](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/real-time-monitoring.md): A live, fleet-wide view of every warehouse — current state, running and queued queries, automation coverage, and on-demand query inspection.
- [Real Time Alerts](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/real-time-monitoring/real-time-alerts.md): Get notified the moment a warehouse starts queueing, runs hot, or pins at its max cluster count — with rules you scope, threshold, and route yourself.
- [Monitoring Cost Management](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/monitoring-cost-management.md)
- [Anomalies Detection](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/monitoring-cost-management/anomalies-detection.md)
- [Budget Groups](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/our-features/monitoring-cost-management/budget-groups.md): This page explains how to set, monitor, and get alerts for spending using Budget Groups.
- [Marketplace](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/marketplace.md): Seemore apps available on the Snowflake Marketplace — install directly into your Snowflake account.
- [Snowflake Efficiency Score](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/marketplace/snowflake-efficiency-score.md): A free Snowflake Native App that runs a fast, secure health check on your warehouses and delivers an Efficiency Score with estimated annual savings.
- [Installation](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/marketplace/snowflake-efficiency-score/installation.md): Step-by-step guide to installing and launching the Snowflake Efficiency Score app from the Snowflake Marketplace.
- [Understanding Your Score](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/marketplace/snowflake-efficiency-score/understanding-your-score.md): How the Efficiency Score is calculated, what the health ratings mean, and how to interpret the savings estimate.
- [Efficiency Indicators](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/marketplace/snowflake-efficiency-score/efficiency-indicators.md): A detailed look at each efficiency indicator: what it measures, how the analysis works, and what actions you can take.
- [Settings](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings.md): Configure how Seemore communicates with your team, schedule reports, and organize your workspace with domains.
- [User Roles](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/user-roles.md): Seemore uses four built-in roles to control what users can see and change. This page describes each role and how roles are assigned to users.
- [Communication Channels](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/communication-channels.md): The Channel page lets you configure how Seemore communicates with you — including anomaly notifications and scheduled reports.
- [Reports](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/reports.md): The Reports feature provides scheduled summaries of compute-unit spending across your environment. Reports help teams identify cost trends and changes without logging into dashboards.
- [Domains](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/domains.md): Dedicated filtered view of the platform that fits your needs
- [Tags Management](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/tags-management.md): Create and manage custom tags to label, filter, and attribute queries and Snowflake objects across your workspace.
- [API Access (MCP)](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/api-access.md): Connect your own AI assistant — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible client — directly to your Seemore data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, or query the same data over a sta
- [Connecting AI Tools](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/api-access/connecting-ai-tools.md): Step-by-step setup for connecting Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT to Seemore over MCP, plus personal access tokens for scripts and the REST API.
- [MCP Tool Reference](https://docs.seemoredata.io/external-docs/fundamentals/settings/api-access/tool-reference.md): The complete catalog of tools the Seemore MCP server exposes to your AI assistant — for assets, lineage, cost, warehouses, budgets, anomalies, queries, and tags.