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Daniel Bailey   ·   12 Feb 2025   ·   9 min read

How to cut costs for metrics and logs: a guide to lowering expenses in Grafana Cloud

Discover practical strategies to reduce your observability costs—and still maintain system visibility—by optimizing metrics and logs in Grafana Cloud.

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Manage log volumes, metrics cardinality, monthly bills: Explore Grafana Cloud cost management tools

Grafana Cloud brings you new and improved cost management features for your metrics, logs, and monthly bills.

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A complete guide to metrics cost management in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud offers a wide range of tools to help manage and control your metrics costs. Here is a breakdown of what they are and how they help.

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Managing Prometheus cardinality in Grafana Cloud: Adaptive Metrics FAQ

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Identify unused, costly metrics with Cardinality Management dashboards in Grafana Cloud

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