Query Snowflake Configuration and Identities

Mondoo's snowflake provider lets you query critical data in your Snowflake account.

Requirements

To analyze and explore your Snowflake account with cnquery, you must have:

cnquery installed on your workstation.
Administrative access to a Snowflake account.

Connect to Snowflake

To explore Snowflake with cnquery, you must first authenticate with Snowflake. To do so, create a RSA key pair and assign the public key to your user account using Snowsight. To learn how, read Key-pair authentication and key-pair rotation in the Snowflake documentation.

In your shell, run:

shell snowflake --account ACCOUNT-ID --region REGION --user YOUR-ID  --role YOUR-ROLE --private-key YOUR-KEY

For...	Substitute...
ACCOUNT-ID	The ID of the Snowflake account to explore (To learn how to get your Snowflake account ID, read Finding the organization and account name for an account.)
REGION	Your account's region
YOUR-USER-ID	The ID you use to log into Snowflake
YOUR-ROLE	The role you use (To learn about roles, read System-defined roles.)
YOUR-KEY	The path to your private key you generated and assigned to your account

For example, run:

shell snowflake --account zi12345 --region us-central1.gcp --user CHRIS  --role ACCOUNTADMIN --private-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Explore a Snowflake account with cnquery shell

Use this command to open cnquery shell and query your Snowflake configuration and identities:

cnquery shell snowflake --account ACCOUNT-ID --region REGION -- user YOUR-USER-ID -- role YOUR-ROLE --ask-pass~/.ssh/id_rsa

For...	Substitute...
ACCOUNT-ID	The ID of the Snowflake account to explore (To learn how to get your Snowflake account ID, read Finding the organization and account name for an account.)
REGION	Your account's region
YOUR-USER-ID	The ID you use to log into Snowflake
YOUR-ROLE	The role you use (To learn about roles, read System-defined roles.)
YOUR-KEY	The path to your private key you generated and assigned to your account

cnquery shell snowflake --account zc74621 --region us-central1.gcp -- user STELLA -- role ACCOUNTADMIN --private-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Example queries

This query retrieves all users:

cnquery> snowflake.account.users
snowflake.account.users: [
  0: snowflake.user name="STELLA"
  1: snowflake.user name="MWEZI"
  2: snowflake.user name="SNOWFLAKE"
]

This query retrieves all users that have no MFA:

cnquery> snowflake.account.users.where(extAuthnDuo == false)
snowflake.account.users.where: [
  0: snowflake.user name="MWEZI"
  1: snowflake.user name="SNOWFLAKE"
]

This query retrieves all users that have password authentication:

cnquery> snowflake.account.users.where(hasPassword)
snowflake.account.users.where: [
  0: snowflake.user name="STELLA"
  1: snowflake.user name="MWEZI"
  2: snowflake.user name="SNOWFLAKE"
]

This query retrieves all users that have certificate authentication:

cnquery> snowflake.account.users.where(hasRsaPublicKey)
snowflake.account.users.where: [
  0: snowflake.user name="STELLA"
]

This query retrieves all databases:

cnquery> snowflake.account.databases
snowflake.account.databases: [
  0: snowflake.database name="MARS_SAMPLES"
  1: snowflake.database name="SECURITY_EXPORTS"
  2: snowflake.database name="VELOCITY"
]

Exit the cnquery shell

To exit the cnquery shell, either press Ctrl + D or type exit.

Learn more about querying Snowflake

To learn more about how the MQL query language works, read Write Effective MQL.
For a list of all the Snowflake resources and fields you can query, read the Snowflake Resource Pack Reference.

Requirements​

Connect to Snowflake​

Explore a Snowflake account with cnquery shell​

Example queries​

Exit the cnquery shell​

Learn more about querying Snowflake​