Observability Platform licensing

To track your telemetry usage against your licensing dimensions, use License Overview. Chronosphere provides this overview to monitor data usage against your licensing dimensions. Use the overview charts to help identify usage trends across data types and proactively manage data usage to avoid exceeding your organization’s licensing limits. The License Overview is available in your Observability Platform tenant. In the navigation menu, click Go to Admin and then select License Overview. The License Overview page consists of two main sections, Consumption and Contract, selectable by tab.

Consumption tracking

The Consumption tab captures the current consumption rates across all license dimensions, compared to your license limits. These statistics display across two selectable tabs for Snapshot and overall Trends:

Snapshot is an overview of your current license usage. When selected, this page displays each licensing statistic as a percentage of your contract limit, along with a graph for that statistic over a pre-selected time period.
Trends explains how your license usage has changed over the selected time period, grouped and graphed by telemetry type.

License dimensions currently exceeding capacity highlight in red, and licenses close to exceeding capacity are orange.

Metrics consumption

Use the License Overview to track trace consumption against your metrics license dimensions:

On the Snapshot page, the Metrics consumption section displays aspects of processed, persisted, and matched metrics data, measured in bytes. Panels also display this information for histogram data. These panels include:
- Current percentage gauges for persisted writes, matched writes, and persisted cardinality that display consumption versus capacity.
- Seven-day trend lines that plot consumption against capacity so you can spot trends from week to week.
For most users, the processed and persisted consumption rates are for the current month. If your organization uses consumption-based pricing, then the processed and persisted bytes are measured against your contract to date.
On the Trends page, you can view metrics consumption trends in higher resolution. If your organization uses consumption-based pricing, click the link to view consumption trends in the Consumption page.

Tracing consumption

Use the License Overview to track trace consumption against your tracing license dimensions:

On the Snapshot page, the Traces consumption section displays aspects of processed and persisted tracing data, measured in bytes. These include:
- Daily average rates per second
- Month-to-date cumulative trends
For most users, the processed and persisted consumption rates are for the current month. If your organization uses consumption-based pricing, then the processed and persisted bytes are measured against your contract to date. To help control costs and maximize the usefulness of your tracing data, click Go to Trace Control Plane to sample your traces.
On the Trends page, you can view trace consumption trends in higher resolution. If your organization uses consumption-based pricing, click the link to view consumption trends in the Consumption page.

Logs consumption

Use the License Overview page to track log consumption against your logs license dimensions:

On the Snapshot page, the Logging consumption section displays the following panels and graphs:
- Percentage of persisted writes and processed writes consumed against your full licensing contract.
- Elapsed time against your full contract. Compare the percentage of persisted writes and processed writes consumption against the time elapsed to understand your true consumption rate.
- Daily persisted and processed log data over the past 30 days.
- Cumulative trend of persisted data and processed data against the license limit, over the life of your licensing contract.
To view log license information, click Go to Consumption, which opens the Consumption page.
On the Trends page, you can view log consumption trends in higher resolution. Trends display for the last seven days by default. The Persisted limit displays the number of logs that can persist per minute in your tenant. If your organization uses consumption-based pricing, click the link to view consumption trends in the Consumption page.

Events consumption

Use the License Overview to track events consumption against your change events license dimensions:

On the Snapshot page, the Events consumption graph for Persisted Capacity displays the percentage of events consumed against your events license capacity. To filter change events by different attributes, click Go to Changes Explorer to open the Changes Explorer page.
On the Trends page, you can view event consumption trends in higher resolution. The Persisted capacity limit displays the number of events that can persist per minute in your tenant. This limit is enforced and can incur penalties if exceeded. In certain circumstances, this limit can exceed the license limit temporarily. The Capacity limit displays the number of events that can persist per minute, as defined by your the license in your contract with Chronosphere. The current consumption percentage displays a decimal ratio of persisted data against your per-minute license limit for the selected time period. This value is calculated by dividing the persisted events per minute by the number of events that can persist per minute, defined by the license limit. Use this information to understand the relationship between your persisted data consumption and the defined license limit.

Credits consumption

This feature isn’t available to all Chronosphere Observability Platform users and might not be visible in your app. For information about enabling this feature in your environment, contact Chronosphere Support.

To pay for telemetry data usage across the Chronosphere ecosystem, use credits. Credits are a flexible, fungible unit of currency that you can spend on any telemetry type. Instead of buying specific capacities, such as for metrics or logs separately, you purchase a total pool of credits over a defined contract period and choose how to spend them across any product on the platform. On the Snapshot page, the Credit consumption section includes:

Credit consumption (full contract): The percentage of total contracted credits consumed to date.
Elapsed time in contract: The percentage of the contract period that has elapsed. Compare this against credit consumption to gauge spend rate.
Credits cumulative trend: A stacked line chart of cumulative credit usage over the life of the contract.
Credit monthly consumption: A bar chart of credits consumed per month.

The Credit consumption section displays for any of your telemetry types that use consumption pricing and credits. For any telemetry data that uses capacity pricing, or consumption pricing without credits where you purchase bytes, this section doesn’t display. If a credit contract has expired or is no longer active, a message directs you to the Consumption page instead.

To view the total number of credits available in your license for the defined contract period, click the Contract tab. The Credits license panel group includes a pricing table that lists the products enabled in your tenant, the resources included in your license, and the unit price for each resource. The pricing table lists the following resources, grouped by product:

Metrics

Resource	Unit	Description
Persisted series	Million time series	A time series, defined as a combination of metric name and labels, that is persisted to storage. One persisted series is incurred for a time series if no identical time series have been persisted in the last 48 hours. Pricing varies by storage retention.
Persisted datapoints	Billion datapoints	An individual, timestamped datapoint that is persisted to storage. Pricing varies by effective datapoint resolution, which is the average time between consecutive persisted datapoints of a time series.
Matched datapoints	Billion datapoints	A datapoint matched for aggregation. One matched datapoint is incurred for each aggregation rule matched for each datapoint.
Persisted histogram datapoint buckets	Billion buckets	A bucket within a histogram datapoint that is persisted to storage. One persisted histogram datapoint bucket is incurred for each non-zero bucket within a persisted histogram datapoint.
Matched histogram datapoint buckets	Billion buckets	A bucket within a histogram datapoint matched for aggregation. One matched histogram datapoint bucket is incurred for each non-zero bucket within a matched histogram datapoint.

Logs

Resource	Unit	Description
Persisted bytes	Gigabyte	Log bytes stored in the database.
Processed bytes	Gigabyte	Log bytes matched for transformation and reshaping.

Traces

Resource	Unit	Description
Persisted bytes	Gigabyte	Trace bytes stored in the database.
Processed bytes	Gigabyte	Trace bytes matched for transformation and reshaping.

Because credits are fungible, your organization isn’t locked into fixed capacities for individual features. Spend your credit balance interchangeably across any of the eligible resources as operational needs change. Usage can scale to accommodate short-term demand without triggering budget controls unless your organization configures them to do so. To delegate spend across teams and ensure maximum value from your credit pool, create budgets within consumption partitions. Budgets let each team operate within a defined allocation while preserving overall flexibility. If your organization completely exhausts all credits before the end of the defined contract period, further usage incurs additional charges per your contract terms. To ensure that your organization doesn’t spend credits before the end of the contract period, use the included control capabilities to manage consumption. To analyze consumption across partitions to detect unwanted spikes and understand what’s driving growth, click Go to Consumption, which opens the Consumption page.

Contract details

The Contract tab is a view of your license limits, which are defined in your contract with Chronosphere. This tab displays your licenses by limit type, with graphs for your license versus your capacity. This page also shows your ingestion limits and retention policies. Retention policies define the amount of time Observability Platform retains telemetry data. Contact Chronosphere Support to configure the intervals used for your system. These policies might be based on your contract or license. Ingestion limits define the amount of raw data Observability Platform can ingest. View retention policies for all of your telemetry data in the Contract tab of the License Overview page.