That's a really good point, I was guesstimating very quickly when I wrote that. Depending on what your doing for the alarm and how they measure reads it may wel

That's a really good point, I was guesstimating very quickly when I wrote that. Depending on what your doing for the alarm and how they measure reads it may well be a lot less. Let's say the read is 1MB instead of 1GB, that's now $1.44 a day and $525 a year. Query pricing becomes not so bad. From my own experience, the 100 metrics per server estimate I was giving above is pretty low, though. Once you factor in different combinations of tags closer to 1000 is more realistic. That potentially brings up the write pricing quite a bit.