Consumption-Based Model

Logz.io offers a consumption-based pricing plan that lets you set a budget to cover all of your data monitoring needs, including logs, metrics, traces, and SIEM.

With a Logz.io consumption plan, you control spending based on actual usage, rather than committing to a fixed data allocation. You set your budget in advance, and charges apply based on your data volume (GB) and Unique Metrics (UTM) consumed. You can set ingestion caps to control how much data is ingested per telemetry type (logs, metrics, traces, and SIEM).

Getting started with a consumption-based plan

To activate a consumption plan, you can either:

Contact your account manager
Purchase an account via AWS

Managing consumption limits

Consumption-based plans use budgets instead of reserved volumes. Your account includes a monthly or yearly budget and associated ingestion limits (GB/UTM). Limits help prevent unexpected overages.

There are two types of ingestion limits in your account:

Soft Cap (Sub-Account Limit) - Each sub-account has a daily ingestion limit (GB/UTM) that can be adjusted by account admins on the Manage Accounts page. If a sub-account reaches this soft cap, data ingestion pauses for that sub-account until the limit is increased or at the end of the day.
Hard Cap (Overall Product Limit) - The hard cap is the total daily ingestion limit (GB/UTM) for each telemetry type across all sub-accounts combined. The sum of all sub-account soft caps cannot exceed this hard cap. Once the hard cap is reached, further ingestion for that telemetry type stops until the limit is adjusted or at the end of the day.

For example, if your Logs Hard Cap is set to 100 GB and you have three sub-accounts sending log data, the combined ingestion from these sub-accounts cannot exceed 100 GB.

The default Hard Cap is 300 GB for logs, 300,000 UTMs for metrics, and 150GB for tracing data. To request an increase, contact Logz.io Support.

Administrators can track the budget and ingestion usage from the Plan and Usage > Usage and Info page. This dashboard provides:

Current budget consumption (dollars spent)
Data ingestion amounts (GB/UTM used)
Information about overages beyond your defined plan limits

Usage data is updated daily.

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On-demand charges apply only after your entire allocated budget has been consumed. They are not relevant for Pay As You Go plans.

Manage accounts overview

Account admins can monitor and configure account-specific settings via the Manage Accounts page.

manage consumption account

At the top of the page, you'll find a graph displaying your current usage alongside key details:

Total budget consumption breakdown
Estimated daily maximum cost if usage reaches the limit (Soft Cap)
Contract start and end dates

The second half of the page includes a table that provides an overview of all accounts, including:

Account name
Account ID
Telemetry data type
Usage limit – The maximum amount of telemetry data you can ingest per account
Unit price (per GB/UTM)
Daily max price – The highest possible charge if usage reaches the limit (Soft Cap)
Retention period per account
Advanced settings – Indicates whether the account can access shared assets, have account utilization metrics, present log size, and more

To create a new account, click Create New Account, then select the telemetry type, name, usage limit, retention, and any other required settings.

To edit an account, click the ⋮ menu next to it. You can modify all settings except the telemetry type.