Pricing & Limits

Plans

Pick a plan that fits your needs. Both plans include all features — the difference is data volume and retention.

All plans include:

• Unlimited projects and environments
• Unlimited team members
• Unlimited uptime monitors
• Monocle Studio (local DevTools)
• All features (tracing, logs, metrics, exceptions, AI monitoring, etc.)

How Usage Is Calculated

Usage is measured by the total size of data ingested (in GB) during your billing period. This includes all telemetry signals:

• Traces — spans from distributed tracing
• Logs — log events
• Metrics — data points (counters, gauges, histograms)

The total size is the sum of estimated bytes across all signals, converted to GB. See Tracking your usage to find what sends the most data.

Billing Period

Your billing period is tied to your subscription start date. For example, if you subscribed on March 15, your billing period runs from the 15th of each month to the 15th of the next month. Usage resets at the start of each billing period.

Overages

Paid plans (Starter and Business) use soft limits — your data ingestion is never blocked when you exceed your plan's included data.

When you go over your plan's data limit:

1. Monocle continues to ingest all your data normally
2. The overage amount is calculated as the difference between your actual usage and your plan's included data, rounded up to the nearest GB
3. Overage charges are reported daily and billed automatically at the end of your billing period

Usage Alerts

Monocle sends email notifications to all organization members when your usage reaches certain thresholds:

These alerts are sent once per billing period per threshold, so you won't be spammed.

Data Retention

Data retention determines how long your telemetry data is stored and queryable in Monocle:

After the retention period, data is automatically deleted. This applies to all signal types (traces, logs, metrics).

Tracking Your Usage

Open Settings → Usage to see what you send, per billing period. Every member of the organization can open it. Service details only cover the projects you have access to.

• The summary shows the volume billed in the period, its share of your plan, the volume projected by the end of the period, and the comparison with the previous period. Tiles split it into traces, logs, and metrics.
• Daily usage charts the volume of each day. Under By, split it by Signal, Project, Environment, or Service, and switch between Size and Events.
• The table below lists each project, environment, or service with its volume per signal, its total, and its share, heaviest first. Unknown service groups telemetry sent without a service name, or received before Monocle tracked usage per service.
• Click a project to see its services, or an environment to see the services of that environment. Remove the filter to go back to every project.
• Use the arrows next to the period to see the previous 24 billing periods.

To cut your volume, click Ask your agent. Monocle copies a prompt with the usage of the period, the heaviest services, operations, logs, metrics, and exceptions. Paste it in your coding agent from your repository, or open it in a coding tool from the menu next to the button. The agent proposes the 3 to 5 changes that save the most data, such as sampling or ignored URLs, and waits for you to pick them before it changes any code.

Managing Your Subscription

From Settings → Billing, organization admins can:

• Upgrade or downgrade your plan
• Update your payment method
• Access your invoices through the Stripe billing portal

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