You can create a dashboard to visualize and monitor your Lightstep Observability usage. Usage metrics are available for the following usage types:
Create a Lightstep Observability billing dashboard
You’ll use the lightstep.billing.hourly_active_time_series
metric to monitor your active time series and the lightstep.billing.span_bytes
metric to monitor your span data.
These metrics report at the project level. You need to create this dashboard for each project you want to monitor
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From the navigation bar, click Dashboards.
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Click Create a dashboard.
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Click in the title to rename your dashboard to Lightstep Billing.
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To add a chart to monitor active time series, click Add a chart.
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Name the chart Active Time Series and enter
lightstep.billing.hourly_active_time_series
as the metric name.This metric is a gauge and measures the number of unique time series written to Lightstep Observability within an hour.
You need to enter the full metric name. Lightstep Observability will not auto-complete this metric.
The active time series metric is delayed by 12-24 hours. To see data in the chart, set the time picker to Last 1 week.
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Click Save.
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Repeat steps 5-7 to create a chart for span data usage, using the
lightstep.billing.span_bytes
metric.This metric is a delta and measures the number of span bytes ingested by Lightstep Observability.
You can group by
satellite_pool
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Click Save and close the chart.
The dashboard now displays both charts.
You can now create alerts to warn you when you are starting to reach your billing threshold.