Create billing dashboards

Use dashboards to visualize and monitor your Cloud Observability usage.

This page shows how to create a dashboard tracking Active Time Series (ATS), log, and span usage metrics. The content is intended for Organization Billing Admin users looking to monitor and control Cloud Observability costs.

Create a billing dashboard

Follow these steps to create a billing dashboard for a project:

In Cloud Observability, click Project and select the project you want to monitor.
Next, click Dashboards > Create a custom dashboard.
Click Name Dashboard to name your dashboard Cloud Observability billing.
To monitor ATS usage:
1. Click Add a chart and name the chart ATS.
2. Enter lightstep.billing.hourly_active_time_series as the metric name.
3. Set the time picker to Last 1 week. The metric reports data with a 12-hour delay.
4. Click Save to save your chart and return to your billing dashboard.
To monitor log usage:
1. Click Add a chart and name the chart Logs.
2. Click All telemetry > Metric and enter lightstep.billing.log_bytes,lightstep.billing.log_storage_cold,or lightstep.billing.log_storage_hot as the metric name.
3. Set the time picker to Last 1 week.
4. Click Save to save your chart and return to your dashboard.
To monitor span usage:
1. Click + Add > Chart and name the chart Spans.
2. Enter lightstep.billing.span_bytes as the metric name.
3. Click Save to save your chart and return to your billing dashboard.

You now have a billing dashboard with three charts for ATS, log, and span usage.

Next steps

To get more data insights, consider adding group_by to your charts to display data by metric or service name. Visit the links below to learn more about Cloud Observability billing and create billing alerts.

Create billing dashboards

Create a billing dashboard

Next steps

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