Estimates your total monthly cost based on real usage across metrics, logs, and traces.
Calculate your total cost based on active series, log ingestion, and trace volume.
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Logs
Monthly ingestion
Traces
Monthly ingestion
Cost Breakdown
Total Cost of Ownership
$19/month platform fee
$0.00145/series · 100K active series
$0.3/GB · 100 GB/month
$0.3/GB · 50 GB/month
Total Cost
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Estimates are indicative. Actual costs may vary based on usage patterns.
Prometheus-style metrics cost usually grows with active time series. Kubernetes labels, tenants, services, and dynamic infrastructure can multiply series count quickly.
Log and trace cost depends on monthly ingestion volume. Use the sliders to model what happens when teams keep more detailed telemetry instead of dropping it too early.
The calculator gives you a simple baseline before comparing Datadog alternatives, managed observability services, or Prometheus backend options.
Start with active metrics series, monthly log ingestion, monthly trace ingestion, and any base platform fee. Then compare the result against retention and operational requirements.
The main drivers are metrics cardinality, log volume, trace volume, retention period, query demand, and the engineering time required to operate backend infrastructure.
Broad observability suites can become expensive when high-volume telemetry grows across several product areas. Teams with backend-heavy metrics, logs, and traces should model volume before migrating.
The cheapest useful option is usually the one that preserves needed queries and retention while reducing backend operations and high-cardinality storage cost.