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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
Two permissions are available:
- Cloud Cost Management Read (
cloud_cost_management_read) - Cloud Cost Management Write (
cloud_cost_management_write)
The table below describes the impact of these permissions in both Cloud Cost Management and related pages.
| Page/Functionality | Cloud Cost Management Read Permission | Cloud Cost Management Write Permission |
|---|
| CCM Summary Page | Permission Required | N/A |
| CCM Containers Page | Permission Required | N/A |
| CCM Recommendations Page | Permission Required | N/A |
| CCM Explorer Page | Permission Required | N/A |
| CCM Plan Page | Permission Required | Permission Required to modify or create Budgets |
| CCM Settings Page - Custom Costs | Permission Required | Permission Required to upload custom costs |
| CCM Settings Page - Tag Pipelines | Permission Required | Permission Required to create tag pipelines |
| CCM Settings Page - SaaS Integrations | Permission Required | Permission Required to enable integration for CCM |
| CCM Settings Page - Accounts | Permission Required | Permission Required to modify or create accounts |
| CCM Settings Page - Configure Recommendations | Permission Required | Permission Required to customize recommendations |
| Dashboards/Notebooks (external) | Permission Required to create and view data | N/A |
| Monitors (external) | Permission Required to create CCM monitors | N/A |
| Service Catalog (external) | Permission Required to view cost data | N/A |
| Resource Catalog (external) | Permission Required to view cost data | N/A |
| API Queries for Cost Data | Permission Required | N/A |
Data access control preview
More granular tag-level restrictions are available as part of the Data Access Control Preview. To request preview access, fill out this form.
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
