Manage metrics & logging costs with Grafana Cloud + Log Volume Explorer demo | ObservabilityCON

Manage metrics & logging costs with Grafana Cloud + Log Volume Explorer demo | ObservabilityCON

Nov 20, 2023

Are your SRE and platform teams under pressure to ingest fewer metrics and logs in the name of cost savings?

Reducing costs does not have to mean reduced observability.

This recording walks through the cost management features in Grafana Cloud that allow you to analyze, attribute, monitor, and optimize your metrics and logs usage – and lower costs – without compromising your observability strategy.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:53 What's the point of cost management?

4:37 How Grafana thinks about cost management

5:44 Grafana's Cost Management Hub

6:18 Overview of Adaptive Metrics (GA)

7:01 Analyzing metrics and usage with Adaptive Metrics (including UI preview)

9:40 Aggregating series with Adaptive Metrics (how it works)

12:19 A practical example of aggregating series

15:16 Advanced use cases of Adaptive Metrics

17:14 Introducing the Log Volume Explorer (demo)

22:57 The future of the Cost Management /hub

Learn more about the Log Volume Explorer:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/analyze-costs/logs-costs/analyze-log-ingestion-log-volume-explorer/