Prerequisites for Connecting Snowflake to ALTR

Complete these Snowflake prerequisites before connecting your account to ALTR.

Prerequisite	Required/Optional	Documentation
Have a Snowflake account of Enterprise Edition or higher — most ALTR features on Snowflake, including masking policies, classification, and tag-based access controls, require it.	Required	Snowflake Editions
Have the ACCOUNTADMIN role in Snowflake. This role is required to set up the ALTR connection — running ALTR’s setup stored procedure and granting ALTR access. ALTR does not need this role after setup. Learn more about the Snowflake privileges ALTR uses.	Required	Use the ACCOUNTADMIN role
If your Snowflake account uses network policies, allow ALTR’s IP addresses. ALTR must be able to reach Snowflake over the internet to apply and enforce policy.	Conditional	Whitelisting ALTR’s IP Addresses
Have at least one database in your Snowflake account. ALTR connects to a specified database and creates the schema and utility objects it needs there.	Required	Manage Snowflake Data Sources
Create an ALTR account. Your account may already exist — check with the ALTR team.	Required	Creating an ALTR Account