Snowflake
Snowflake is a powerful cloud-based data platform that allows you to store, analyze, and visualize various types of data, including spatial data. If you have geographic information in your Snowflake database Felt provides a simple way to connect, query, and visualize this data on a map.
This feature is only available to customers on the Enterprise plan. To upgrade, contact sales.
Create a new, read-only user on your database for Felt access
Click on the Library in the toolbar
Click
+ New Source
Select Snowflake
Enter Connection Details
Source Name
: name of the source in FeltAccount ID
: Snowflake account identifier. Must include the name of the account along with its organization (e.g.myorg-account123
)Database
: name of the Snowflake databaseUsername
: database user — preferably a user with read-only permissions created specifically for Felt access.Schema
: (optional) the name of the database schema to read. If not provided, all schemas from the database will be read.Role
: the role that the database user should use. If not provided, the default role for the user will be used.Warehouse
: the warehouse for the session. If not provided, the default warehouse for the user will be used.Authentication method
: the desired authentication method and credentials to programmatically access the Snowflake database (see Supported Authentication Methods to learn more).Who can see this source?
: control access to this source within Felt
Click
Connect
Once connected you will see a catalog of your data with previews for your new source
From here you can add any of these layers to your spatial dashboards!
Supported Authentication Methods
Key-pair authentication
Snowflake supports authentication using a key pair — a combination of a public key (assigned to a specific user in the Snowflake UI) and a private key (uploaded to Felt), optionally protected by a passphrase.
Programmatic Access Token
Programmatic Access Tokens (or PATs, for short) allow you to connect your Snowflake source to Felt using a user-based, long-lived token. Read Snowflake’s guide to generating programmatic access tokens.
Snowflake only allows creating PATs for human and service users that are bound to specific network rules. When setting up network rules, make sure to add Felt's IPs to your allowlist.
Password (deprecated)
Snowflake will block programmatic access using username/password authentication in November 2025. If you are currently using this authentication method, please switch to one of the other supported methods to prevent Felt from losing access to your Snowflake source.
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