Overview
Daily Datadog costs give you visibility into daily Datadog spending across dashboards, notebooks, cost monitors, and Cloud Cost Explorer, along with your entire organization’s cloud provider and SaaS costs.
You can view daily Datadog costs in Cloud Cost Management(CCM), and access additional Datadog cost capabilities like Cost Summary and Cost Chargebacks on the Plan & Usage page.
There is no additional charge for Datadog Costs, and it is available for both CCM and non-CCM customers with a direct contract through Datadog or an External Marketplace drawdown contract.
Required permissions
Datadog Costs requires different permissions depending on whether you’re enabling the feature or viewing the data:
To enable Datadog Costs (opt-in)
To activate Datadog Costs for your organization, you must have the following permissions:
| Permission | Description | Available Roles |
|---|
billing_read | Read access to billing information. | • Datadog Admin |
usage_read | Read access to usage data. | • Datadog Admin |
cloud_cost_management_read | Read access to Cloud Cost Management. | • Datadog Admin
• Datadog Read Only (default) |
To view Datadog Costs in Cloud Cost Management
After Datadog Costs is enabled, users need the following permission to view the data:
| Permission | Description | Available Roles |
|---|
cloud_cost_management_read | Read access to Cloud Cost Management. Required to view Datadog Costs data in Cloud Cost Management. | • Datadog Admin
• Datadog Read Only (default) |
Enabling Datadog Costs
To activate Datadog Costs, navigate to the Plan & Usage page and click Get Started in the modal to “View Datadog Costs in Cloud Cost Management”. Alternatively, you can contact your account representative or Datadog Support.
After opting in to Datadog Costs, a confirmation message appears and cost data starts populating in the CCM Explorer within 2-3 hours.
Data availability to sub-organizations
Datadog cost data is available at the parent organization level. Sub-organization access is available in limited availability. To request sub-organization access, contact your account representative or Datadog Support.
Visualize and break down costs
Costs in Cloud Cost Management may not match the estimated month-to-date (MTD) costs on the Plan & Usage page because Plan & Usage costs are cumulative and prorated monthly. Only Cloud Cost Management provides daily cost calculations.
Datadog cost data is available for the past 15 months and can be used in dashboards and notebooks under the Cloud Cost data source. Create dashboards to monitor daily costs, identify trends, and optimize resource usage.
You can use out-of-the-box tags to break down and allocate your Datadog cost data.
| Tag Name | Tag Description |
|---|
| organization | The name of the parent or sub-organization. |
| dimension_name / dimension | dimension_name is the name of the individual product being billed (for example, Indexed Logs (15 Day Retention)).dimension is the snake case version of the product name which is optimized for programmatic use and easier search (for example, logs_indexed_15day). |
| product_name / datadog_product | product_name is the high-level grouping name for Datadog products (for example, Logs).datadog_product is the snake case version of the product grouping name which is optimized for programmatic use and easier search (for example, logs). |
<Usage Attribution tags> | You can add up to three tag keys, configured in [Usage Attribution][9], with their associated values (for example, team or service). |
| cost_type | The type of charge covered by this item (for example, usage or adjustment). |
| pricing_category | The specific type of charge covered by this item (for example, committed or on-demand). |
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
