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Explore your cloud provider costs and correlate them with real-time telemetry data. Gain actionable insights and alerts on where your cloud costs are coming from, how they are changing, and where to find potential optimizations.
Overview
Cloud Cost Management provides insights for engineering and finance teams to understand how infrastructure changes impact costs, allocate spend across your organization, and identify inefficiencies.
Datadog ingests your cloud cost data and transforms it into metrics you can use in a search query on the Explorer page. If costs rise, you can correlate the increase with usage metrics to determine the root cause.
Setup
To start managing your cloud costs with Cloud Cost Management, see the following documentation.
Use cloud cost data
Visualize infrastructure spend alongside related utilization metrics with a retention period of 15 months to spot potential inefficiencies and savings opportunities.
When creating a dashboard, select Cloud Cost as the data source for your search query.
Optionally, you can programmatically export a timeseries graph of your cloud cost data by using the Metrics API.
Use daily Datadog cost data
Visualize daily Datadog spending alongside related utilization metrics with a retention period of 15 months to spot potential inefficiencies and savings opportunities. Learn more about Datadog Costs.
When creating a dashboard, select Cloud Cost as the data source, then choose Datadog from the available cost types.
Optionally, you can programmatically export a timeseries graph of your Datadog cost data by using the Metrics API.
Tagging and cost allocation
Learn how tags are sourced, enriched, and managed in Cloud Cost Management by reading the Tags documentation.
You can create tag rules to correct missing or incorrect tags, and add inferred tags that align with your organization’s business logic.
Create a cost monitor
Proactively manage and optimize your cloud spending by creating a Cloud Cost Monitor. You can choose Cost Changes or Cost Threshold to monitor your cloud expenses.
Allocate costs
Use Container Cost Allocation metrics to discover costs associated with clusters and workloads across Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You can gain visibility into pod-level costs, identify idle resource costs, and analyze costs by resource type.
Permissions
Cloud Cost Management uses two permissions to control access: cloud_cost_management_read for viewing cost data and cloud_cost_management_write for modifying configurations. See the Permissions documentation for a detailed breakdown of requirements by page.
Review data history
Monitor the freshness and processing status of your cloud cost data on the Cloud Cost > Settings > Data History page.
- Last Bill Received: When your cloud or SaaS provider generated the billing data visible in CCM.
- Last Processed: When Datadog last processed billing data from your cloud provider, including:
- Tag pipeline rules (retroactively processes up to 3 months of historical data by default)
- Cost allocation rules (retroactively processes up to 1 month of historical data by default)
Use this page to troubleshoot data delays or confirm that recent tag pipelines and cost allocation changes have taken effect.
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
