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.
Reduce your ingestion volume
Cost Meter shows what you spend. The Cost Control guides show how to reduce it, in three phases: analysis, execution, and validation.
- Cost Control: The full optimization flow, from analysis to validation.
- Analyze Ingestion Volume: Find which signal, service, and environment drives your volume.
- Optimize Metrics: Drop unused metrics and aggregate high-cardinality labels.
- Optimize Traces: Reduce trace volume with head-based or tail-based sampling.
- Optimize Logs: Filter verbose log records at the Collector.
- Attribute Ingestion Volume: Split volume across teams, services, and environments.
- Ingestion Limits: Set hard per-signal caps on an ingestion key.
Related modules
- Metrics: Query, explore, and manage your metrics.
- Logs Management: Send, parse, and query your logs.
- APM & Distributed Tracing: Monitor service performance and trace requests.
- Alerts: Set up general alert rules alongside cost alerts.
