🧠Smart Pulse

Our automatic configuration scheduler, the best way to optimize your warehouse configuration dynamically.

Overview

Smart Pulse automatically optimizes your Snowflake warehouses by generating an hourly configuration schedule based on recent workload patterns. It helps you reduce warehouse spend while maintaining expected performance.

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Why use Smart Pulse?

Most warehouses are sized for peak load and then left oversized during off-peak hours. Smart Pulse reduces wasted credits by:

• Right-sizing by hour, not “one setting for the whole day”

• Optimizing across warehouse size and (optionally) warehouse generation

• Applying changes automatically on schedule

• Enforcing guardrails through Predictability, SLO preferences, and Burst Protector

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What Smart Pulse changes

Smart Pulse can manage one or both of these dimensions:

• Size (Vertical optimization): e.g., Large → Medium during off-peak hours

• Generation (Gen optimization): e.g., GEN_1 ↔ GEN_2 when it’s beneficial for your workload

You can enable these independently per warehouse.

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When Smart Pulse works best

Best fit - predictable WH

Smart Pulse is most effective when your warehouse has repeatable patterns, such as:

• Scheduled ETL/ELT pipelines

• dbt jobs / Dynamic Tables refresh windows

• Orchestrated workloads (e.g., Airflow)

On this cases Smart Pulse will generate custom schedule that fits the warehouse load.

Less effective - unpredictable WH

When warehouses are unpredictable, you would be able to schedule them manually according to your request, for example if you wish to give more power during working hours and at night reduce the size of the warehouses. Smart Pulse may be less impactful when:

• Workload is highly ad-hoc and unpredictable

• Usage varies dramatically day-to-day without stable patterns

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How Smart Pulse works (high level)

Smart Pulse analyzes recent warehouse activity and identifies the typical “shape” of demand across days and hours. It then builds an hourly schedule that aims to:

• Reduce credits during low utilization

• Keep capacity during known peak windows

• Avoid risky changes during unpredictable hours

The output is a weekly schedule (7 days × 24 hours) you can review and apply.

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Prerequisites Permissions

To activate Smart Pulse, Seemore needs permission to modify Snowflake warehouses. If these permissions are missing, Follow the Setting Up page to set it up. or execute to following command:

GRANT MANAGE WAREHOUSES ON ACCOUNT TO ROLE seemore_user_role;

Make sure you grant modification rights to the Seemore service user before enabling Smart Pulse

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How to use Smart Pulse

1) Generate a schedule

1. Go to Cost Overview -> compute unit

2. Select a the warehouse you wish

3. on the Smart Pulse field you will find :

   1. predictable warehouses marked with Generate button

   2. non-predictable warehouses marked with schedule

4. Click Generate schedule or schedule to get into the Smart Pulse configuration page

You’ll see:

• A calendar-style schedule (hourly)

• Expected savings

• Expected performance impact

  

2) Review and apply

In the Apply Schedule flow, review:

• Size and/or Gen changes per hour

• Estimated savings (annualized)

• Performance expectations

Click Apply Schedule to activate the schedule. (red button at the bottom left corner)

3) Disable anytime

You can disable Smart Pulse for a warehouse at any time, by click Unconfigure in the Smart Pulse configuration page. When disabled, the warehouse returns to its previous configuration.

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Manual editing (Static time slots)

Smart Pulse recommendations are a starting point. You can override specific hours to match business needs (e.g., keep BI hours larger even if the recommendation downsizes).

Add a static time slot

1. Open Apply Schedule

2. Click Add static time slot

3. Choose:

   • Day(s) of week

   • Time range (start hour → end hour , 24h clock from 0 to 24)

   • Warehouse size

   • Optional: warehouse generation (GEN_1 / GEN_2)

Edit or delete a slot

• Click an existing calendar block to edit or delete it.

• Manual blocks are visually distinct from Smart Pulse recommended blocks.

Clear all manual edits

Use Clear static time slots to remove overrides and revert back to Smart Pulse recommendations.

Regenerate recommendations without losing overrides

If you regenerate suggestions, Smart Pulse updates the recommended plan while keeping your manual overrides in place (manual edits take precedence in overlapping hours).

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Guardrails and safety

Predictability

Smart Pulse uses predictability checks to avoid applying aggressive optimization in hours that don’t follow stable patterns. Unpredictable hours typically remain closer to the current configuration.

SLO preferences (Performance guardrails)

By default cost is the highest priority seemore takes into consideration, you can configure performance preferences to be in priority so Smart Pulse avoids changes that are likely to violate your expected runtime/latency. In practice, this means:

• Some hours may revert to safer settings

• Savings may decrease in exchange for greater performance stability

Burst Protector

Burst Protector is a safety mechanism that helps handle sudden spikes by temporarily scaling up when sustained bursts are detected. It can be toggled independently from the Smart Pulse schedule.

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FAQ

Will Smart Pulse affect my users during business hours?

It can, which is why you review the schedule before applying and can create static time slots to protect business-critical hours.

Does Smart Pulse automatically switch GEN_1 / GEN_2?

Only if Gen optimization is enabled for that warehouse. Otherwise, it will only adjust size.

What happens if our workload changes?

Regenerate the schedule. Smart Pulse will adapt recommendations based on the new pattern, while preserving your manual overrides.