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Understand your Grafana Cloud Logs, Traces, and Profiles invoices

Grafana Cloud calculates logs, traces, and profiles usage by considering units of measurement associated with process, write, and retain.

GBs processed
This is cost is incurred when Grafana Cloud receives and optimizes signals sent to Grafana Cloud. Prior to any Adaptive Telemetry optimization, you are charged an incremental cost of $0.05 per GB processed.
GBs written
The total number of GBs written to Grafana Cloud on a monthly basis. If you configure Adaptive Telemetry to limit telemetry, only the resulting useful data is written to Grafana Cloud. This charge is $0.40 per GB written after you reach your free, 50GB allotment.
GBs retained
How long the logs, traces, and profiles data are retained within Grafana Cloud.

The minimum retention period is 14 days for free accounts and 30 days for paid accounts. If you decide to retain data in excess of 30 days, you’ll be charged $0.10 per GB for each additional 30 day increment.

Retention is customizable per stack or by individual streams within the same stack. To customize retention, contact Support.

Note

The retention period changes are not retroactive. After the retention is increased, telemetry will be stored following the new retention period, but data already out of the old retention period will not be recovered.

Logs fair use policy for GBs queried

Grafana Cloud Logs pricing includes a fair use query policy that allows you to query up to 100X your written logs volume each month at no additional charge. Your query usage most likely will not exceed the fair use policy. If your query usage does exceed this fair use policy, there are additional pricing considerations outlined in the Billing calculations section.

GBs queried is the total number of GBs queried in Grafana Cloud on a monthly basis.

Billing calculations

Billing is based on usage, and usage is determined by these primary factors:

  • The total number of GBs processed per month

  • The total number of GBs written per month

  • The number of GBs retained per month

  • The number of months of retention

Note

For customers exceeding the 100X fair use policy for GBs queried per month, the following billing calculations apply:

logs billable gb = max(written gb, queried gb / fair use query ratio)

This calculation is performed on a per-stack level.

View your billing and usage dashboards

To understand how query usage affects your bill, see the Grafana Cloud Billing/Usage Dashboard.