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Metrics from all official integrations (including host metrics) are included in the $15/month/host flat pricing. Of course, them being sent will trigger that pe
by xvello 4y ago
Metrics from all official integrations (including host metrics) are included in the $15/month/host flat pricing. Of course, them being sent will trigger that per-host billing, but that's an expected consequence of installing the agent on a host. The only caveats I know of are:
- some integrations have options to collect more timeseries. If the volume is too high, these will be marked in the documentation as billed as custom metrics
- custom integrations (including custom prometheus/openmetrics instances) are billed as custom metrics, as if they were sent through statsd
- container monitoring (enabled by default in the docker image, but not the other agent installations) is included up to 10 concurrent containers per host ; additional containers are billed on-demand
- alphabettsy 4y ago> but that's an expected consequence of installing the agent on a host When installing for logging purposes this is not expected or desired. It wasn’t at the point that I encountered it, but I don’t believe the documentation notes this anywhere still.
- xvello 4y agoInteresting, I didn't think about this! Although it can work, using logs or APM without infrastructure monitoring was not a design goal for the agent. For this use case, I'd investigate using https://vector.dev/ https://vector.dev/ instead of the full agent.
- alphabettsy 4y agoEnded up using something similar. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue and would be more cautious in production, but was using the Agent on some Dev machines to ship logs and was surprised to see Host metrics from them unintentionally along with the bill.