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**Total:** €6.670 per month with volume discounts instead of €7.800 without volume discounts.

Refer to our [documentation on understanding Cockpit usage and pricing](/cockpit/reference-content/understanding-cockpit-usage/) for more information on how to reduce extra costs when ingesting custom data.

Refer to our [documentation on understanding and managing Cockpit ingestion to reduce costs](/cockpit/reference-content/understanding-cockpit-usage/) for more information on how to reduce extra costs when ingesting custom data.

## How am I billed for increasing data retention period?

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meta:
title: Understanding Cockpit usage and pricing
description: Explore Cockpit's usage and pricing details, including how to manage and optimize costs by controlling the amount of metrics ingested. Learn to adjust scrape intervals and filter metrics effectively, ensuring efficient resource monitoring without unnecessary expenses.
title: Understanding and managing Cockpit ingestion to reduce costs
description: Explore how to control Cockpit usage and pricing, including how to manage and optimize costs by controlling the amount of metrics ingested. Learn to adjust scrape intervals and filter metrics for efficient resource monitoring without unnecessary expenses.
content:
h1: Understanding Cockpit usage and pricing
paragraph: Explore Cockpit's usage and pricing details, including how to manage and optimize costs by controlling the amount of metrics ingested. Learn to adjust scrape intervals and filter metrics effectively, ensuring efficient resource monitoring without unnecessary expenses.
h1: Understanding and managing Cockpit ingestion to reduce costs
paragraph: Explore how to control Cockpit ingestion usage and pricing, including how to manage and optimize costs by controlling the amount of metrics ingested. Learn to adjust scrape intervals and filter metrics for efficient resource monitoring without unnecessary expenses.
tags: observability cockpit retention metrics logs
dates:
validation: 2024-11-04
validation: 2025-05-05
posted: 2023-06-07
categories:
- observability
---

This page explains how you can control your usage of Cockpit, primarily by managing your ingestion rate, to help you avoid unnecessary costs.

Cockpit allows you to [push custom metrics](/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-logs-to-cockpit/) for various resources. The pricing of our service is based on the number of samples that are ingested per month.
Using Cockpit costs €0.15 per million samples ingested per month.
For more information about how Cockpit is billed, refer to the [Cockpit FAQ](/cockpit/faq/#how-am-i-billed-for-using-cockpit-with-my-scaleway-data).

Cockpit allows you to [push custom metrics](/cockpit/how-to/send-metrics-logs-to-cockpit/) for various resources. Since pricing is based on the number of ingested samples per month, optimizing your ingestion can directly impact your invoice.

## Importance of controlling the rate

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