Cost Meter in SigNoz helps you monitor and control your observability spend. Get real-time visibility into data ingestion across logs, traces, and metrics so you can understand cost drivers, spot unexpected spikes, and take action before bills grow.
Key capabilities
- Real-time cost dashboard: Track ingestion volumes and costs for logs, traces, and metrics with hourly granularity — broken down by record count, span count, datapoint count, and size.
- Meter Explorer: Query your usage data with filters and groupings to identify which services, teams, or attributes drive the most ingestion.
- Cost alerts: Set threshold alerts on ingestion volumes or costs and get notified before you exceed your budget.
Get Started
- Cost Meter Dashboard — Track ingestion volumes across logs, traces, and metrics, compare costs by signal, and spot usage spikes.
- Meter Explorer — Query raw usage data with filters, groupings, and custom time windows.
- Meter Alerts — Set up alerts for spend thresholds, per-signal limits, and ingestion quotas.
- Meter Explorer Query Guide — Example queries and saved view workflows.
- Alert Configuration Guide — Common cost alert scenarios.
Related modules
- Metrics — Reduce metrics costs with cardinality management.
- Logs Management — Drop unwanted logs to lower ingestion costs.
- APM & Distributed Tracing — Control trace volume at the collector level.
- Alerts — Set up general alert rules alongside cost alerts.
