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Cost management and billing

Grafana Cloud cost management is a centralized suite of tools for Grafana Cloud administrators to manage, control, and optimize their observability spend. Find it by navigating to Administration > Cost Management in your hosted Grafana.

Overview

Use the topics within this section to answer any cost-related questions:

  • How much am I spending and what am I spending it on?
  • Who is responsible for the costs?
  • How can I reduce my overall invoice?
  • How do I prevent unexpected overages?

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Grafana Cloud features
Review Grafana Cloud features, including key features, managed features, and visualization features alongside Grafana Cloud plans.
Invoices
Use the Billing and Usage dashboard, set up to receive billing invoices, and review answers to common billing questions about invoices.
Analyze costs
Analyze Grafana Cloud usage to understand your metrics and logs costs.
Set up alerts
You can set up billing usage alerts when usage has exceeded a threshold for Cloud Metrics, Cloud Logs, or Cloud Traces.
Reduce costs
Find out more about how to reduce costs for Cloud Metrics, Cloud Logs, Cloud Traces, and Synthetic Monitoring.
Generate usage reports
Gain insight into how resources are being used and create usage budgets to manage costs more efficiently. Attribute usage to teams, services, departments, or systems.