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.

Overview

Cost Management and Billing gives you complete visibility into your Grafana Cloud spend so you can stay in control of your observability budget.

By centralizing billing and usage information in one place, Cost Management and Billing helps you understand how your organization consumes resources, attributes costs to teams and projects, manages invoices, and sets proactive usage alerts.

In addition to the Cost Management and Billing application, there are other tools and areas where you can analyze and reduce costs.

For more details, refer to the Analyze and reduce costs section.

Why use Cost Management and Billing?

Cost Management and Billing helps you get the most out of Grafana Cloud by providing:

Full visibility into spend – Track costs across metrics, logs, traces, and other observability data in one place.
Accountability and ownership – Attribute costs to teams, projects, or departments so everyone is responsible for their usage.
Proactive budget control – Set usage alerts to detect spikes early and prevent unexpected charges.
Opportunities to save – Analyze spending patterns to optimize your overall invoice.