Burton: Observe ingests 1PB of data and runs 190M Snowflake queries daily
Jeremy Burton · Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next · Jun 18, 2025 · at 24:15
Jeremy Burton, CEO of Observe, explains the compute intensity of Observe's observability platform running on Snowflake.
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“We do a hundred and ninety million Snowflake queries a day, and we ingest a petabyte of data.”
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