Cloud Cost Management

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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.

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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.

Gain insights into all of your cloud provider's cost and usage on the Cloud Costs Summary page in Datadog

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


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.

Cloud Cost available as a data source in dashboard widget creation

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.

Datadog costs as an option for the Cloud Cost data source in a dashboard

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.

Create a Cloud Cost monitor that alerts on cost changes

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:

  1. Cloud Cost Management Read (cloud_cost_management_read)
  2. 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/FunctionalityCloud Cost Management Read PermissionCloud Cost Management Write Permission
CCM Summary PagePermission RequiredN/A
CCM Containers PagePermission RequiredN/A
CCM Recommendations PagePermission RequiredN/A
CCM Explorer PagePermission RequiredN/A
CCM Plan PagePermission RequiredPermission Required to view Budgets
CCM Settings Page - Custom CostsPermission RequiredPermission Required to upload custom costs
CCM Settings Page - Tag PipelinesPermission RequiredPermission Required to create tag pipelines
CCM Settings Page - SaaS IntegrationsPermission RequiredPermission Required to enable integration for CCM
CCM Settings Page - AccountsPermission RequiredPermission Required to modify or create accounts
CCM Settings Page - Configure RecommendationsPermission RequiredPermission Required to customize recommendations
Dashboards/Notebooks (external)Permission Required to create and view dataN/A
Monitors (external)Permission Required to create CCM monitorsN/A
Service Catalog (external)Permission Required to view cost dataN/A
Resource Catalog (external)Permission Required to view cost dataN/A
API Queries for Cost DataPermission RequiredN/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.

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