Knowledge graph pricing
Pricing for the knowledge graph is an extension of Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring host-hours pricing.
The knowledge graph is unlocked through Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring. It doesn’t have a separate pricing model, but it does generate additional metrics that are billed through your regular metrics usage.
Existing users
If you are a current Application Observability or Kubernetes Monitoring user, you gain access to the knowledge graph upon activation.
Application Observability users
After you activate the knowledge graph:
- You incur an incremental storage cost of 5% to 10% for the generated knowledge graph metrics
- Your bill is based on host-hours
Kubernetes Monitoring users
After you activate the knowledge graph:
- You incur an incremental storage cost of 5% to 10% for the generated knowledge graph metrics
- Your bill is based on host-hours and container-hours
New users
If you are a new user, the knowledge graph becomes available and activated by default, depending upon your stack.
- You incur an incremental storage cost of 5% to 10% for the generated knowledge graph metrics
- Your bill is based on host-hours or container-hours depending on whether you activated Application Observability or Kubernetes Monitoring
Understand cost impact
- Activating the knowledge graph - Expect a modest incremental cost for the generated knowledge graph metrics.
- Deactivating only the knowledge graph - Cost impact is usually limited because the base observability products remain active.
- Deactivating the base products - This is where you see the largest cost change, because host-hours or container-hours stop accumulating for those products.
In practice, the knowledge graph typically adds 5% to 10% more active series on top of the metrics you were already sending before activation.
