Price Log Analytics ingestion across pay-as-you-go and commitment tiers, with basic logs and extended retention.
A commitment tier is a daily minimum, not a cap: you pay for the full tier every day even if you ingest less, and anything above it bills at the same discounted rate. Routing verbose, rarely-queried tables to the basic logs plan cuts their ingestion price substantially, and retention beyond the included 31 days is charged per GB-month on everything you keep. Log Analytics ingestion is frequently the second- or third-largest Azure line item, and the two levers that actually work are table-level plan selection and a commitment tier sized just below your steady-state volume — verify the current per-GB prices and tier discounts in the Azure pricing calculator for your region.
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commitment tiers bill the whole tier every day at a discounted rate and charge overage at that same rate: cost = (tier GB × tier rate + overage GB × tier rate + basic GB × basic rate) × days + retention beyond 31 days.
commitment tiers bill the whole tier every day at a discounted rate and charge overage at that same rate: cost = (tier GB × tier rate + overage GB × tier rate + basic GB × basic rate) × days + retention beyond 31 days. A commitment tier is a daily minimum, not a cap: you pay for the full tier every day even if you ingest less, and anything above it bills at the same discounted rate. Routing verbose, rarely-queried tables to the basic logs plan cuts their ingestion price substantially, and retention beyond the included 31 days is charged per GB-month on everything you keep.
Log Analytics ingestion is frequently the second- or third-largest Azure line item, and the two levers that actually work are table-level plan selection and a commitment tier sized just below your steady-state volume — verify the current per-GB prices and tier discounts in the Azure pricing calculator for your region.
This calculator takes 8 inputs: Data ingested per day, Share routed to the basic logs plan, Pay-as-you-go price per GB, Basic logs price per GB, Commitment tier, Interactive retention, Retention price per GB, Days per billing month. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.