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⇱ Cloud Cost Management

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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.

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.

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 the following permissions to control access to cost data and most CCM configurations:

  • cloud_cost_management_read
  • cloud_cost_management_write

For a detailed breakdown of requirements by page, see Permissions.

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.

Use AI for cost analysis

Use the Cloud Cost Skill in Bits Chat to investigate cost changes, identify likely owners, compare spend against budgets, correlate cost with observability metrics, and create handoff notebooks for engineering teams.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Create a Cloud Cost monitorDOCUMENTATION Learn about Tags in Cloud Cost ManagementDOCUMENTATION Use Cloud Cost skill in Bits ChatDOCUMENTATION Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementBLOG Driving AI ROI: How Datadog connects cost, performance, and infrastructure so you can scale responsiblyBLOG Understand your Kubernetes and ECS spend with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementBLOG Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with DatadogBLOG Quickly and comprehensively analyze the cloud and SaaS costs behind your servicesBLOG Key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs studyBLOG Monitor unit economics with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementBLOG How we've created a successful FinOps practice at DatadogBLOG How we saved $1.5 million per year with Cloud Cost ManagementBLOG Manage and optimize your OCI costs with Datadog Cloud Cost ManagementBLOG How Cambia Health Solutions saved $30,000 monthly with Cloud Cost Management and the Datadog Resource CatalogBLOG