What shipping and retaining logs costs per month.
Logging charges when data lands and every month it lingers. Sample the noise and tier old data to archive. For raw archive pricing see the egress and storage calculators.
Free log ingestion cost calculator — log volume, ingest and retention price to your monthly logging bill.
Two meters: a per-GB ingest charge when logs arrive, and a per-GB-per-month retention charge for keeping them. Long retention on high-volume logs multiplies quickly — retention often costs more than ingest over time.
Sample or drop noisy debug logs, set sensible retention (hot for days, cold archive for the rest), and avoid logging full payloads. Most teams ingest far more than they ever query — that gap is pure waste.
Cost at different volumes:
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