# cost-management

> Claude/Codex skill by [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md) · 286 stars · Updated 2026-10-17

Cut your Grafana Cloud bill by attributing spend to teams and reducing telemetry volume. Covers FOCUS-compliant billing dashboards, cost-attribution labels in Alloy, Adaptive Metrics (cardinality reduction), Adaptive Logs (drop/sample), Adaptive Traces (tail sampling), usage alerts, and an optimization checklist. Use when investigating a high Grafana Cloud bill, attributing observability cost to a team or service, reducing active series / log bytes / trace spans, or setting up usage / quota alerts — even when the user says "our Grafana bill is too high", "who's burning the most metrics", "drop debug logs", "sample our traces", or "alert me before we hit quota" without naming Cost Management.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/grafana/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/grafana-cloud/cost-management ~/.claude/skills/cost-management
```

## From README

Grafana Cloud Cost Management Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/ Reduce metric / log / trace spend with Adaptive signals + cost-attribution labels. Prerequisites A Grafana Cloud stack with Adaptive Metrics / Logs / Traces enabled (visible under Cost Management) Alloy (or Grafana Agent) ingesting telemetry, with API key in scope metrics:write + logs:write (+ traces:write) Admin access to the stack to apply Adaptive recommendations Common Workflows Attribute cost to a team / service See references/adaptive-signals.md for the full Alloy snippet. Cut metric cardinality with Adaptive Metrics Drop noisy logs in Alloy Set a alert before you hit quota See references/alerts-and-queries.md for ready-to-paste rules (MetricsUsageHigh, LogsIngestionHigh).

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/skills/cost-management/
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/skills
- Author: [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md)

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