Navigate to the billing dashboard
The Grafana Cloud billing dashboard is your central hub for understanding usage and costs across all stacks. The billing dashboard shows cost estimates on stat panels, explanatory text panels describing billing calculations, and time series panels displaying billable usage for the current month. You can expand rows for each product type to see more detailed information.
To navigate to the billing dashboard, complete the following steps:
Sign in to your Grafana Cloud environment, for example
mystack.grafana.net.On the Grafana Cloud home page, open the navigation menu on the left side of the screen and click Dashboards.
In the dashboards browser, open the GrafanaCloud folder.
Click the Billing/Usage dashboard.
The dashboard opens displaying your current month’s usage and cost information in the Billing Usage Overview row.
- The first dashboard panel shows the total billable usage that’s estimated for the month.
- The second dashboard panel provides a breakdown of the projected cost per product.
- The third dashboard panel provides links to documentation and FAQs that help you to better understand billable usage costs.
Did you know?
The dashboard duration is set to
This month so farby default. You can use the time picker at the top right to select different time ranges, though selectingPrevious monthis often more useful thanlast 30 daysto align with billing cycles.
In the next milestone, you’ll learn how to identify which services contribute most to your monthly costs.
At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths: