Documentation Grafana Cloud Observe and act Monitor applications Database Observability Host hours pricing

Host hours pricing

Database Observability billing has three components: a per-host hourly fee for each connected database instance, metrics usage, and logs usage.

For the full pricing model — what counts as a host, how connection-based billing works, what drives telemetry volume, retention, and how charges appear on your bill — refer to Database Observability pricing. For current rates, refer to the Grafana Cloud pricing page.

Reduce your costs

To reduce host hours or telemetry volume, refer to Reduce Database Observability costs.

For environment-specific collection settings, including high-volume and low-resource presets, refer to Tune Alloy collection.

Related documentation

• Host hours billing: How host hours billing works across Grafana Cloud products.
• Telemetry reference: Full list of collected metrics and logs.
• Labels: How labels affect series cardinality.