OCI Logging Cost Calculator
Price OCI Logging and Logging Analytics from daily volume, retention and the free 10 GB of monthly log storage.
About OCI Logging Cost Calculator
Logging bills the standing volume you keep, which is daily ingest multiplied by retention rather than the daily figure alone — 40 GB a day at 30 days is 1.2 TB on the meter. Logging Analytics prices differently again, in units of 300 GB, so its cost steps up in blocks and a partially filled unit is billed in full. Retention is the multiplier nobody notices: doubling it doubles the bill without changing a single log line, and routing everything through Logging Analytics rather than a chosen subset is the fastest way to overspend. Confirm the per-GB and per-storage-unit prices in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
Formula
OCI Logging Cost
retained GB = daily GB × retention days; Logging charges max(0, plain GB − 10) × per-GB price, and Logging Analytics charges ceil(analytics GB ÷ 300) storage units.
- retained GB
- Standing volume implied by daily ingest and retention
- storage unit
- 300 GB of logs held during the month, the Logging Analytics billing unit
- free allowance
- First 10 GB of log storage each month, at no charge
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI Logging Cost Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $56.50. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Log volume per dayaccepts 0–100,000 GB/day
- 40 GB/day
- Retentionaccepts 1–365 days
- 30 days
- Log storage price per GB-monthaccepts 0–5 USD/GB-month
- 0.05 USD/GB-month
- Free log storage allowanceaccepts 0–1,000 GB/month
- 10 GB/month
- Send a share to Logging Analytics
- Yes
- Share sent to Logging Analyticsaccepts 0–100 %
- 25 %
- GB per Logging Analytics storage unitaccepts 1–10,000 GB
- 300 GB
- Price per Logging Analytics storage unitaccepts 0–1,000 USD/unit-month
- 12 USD/unit-month
Results
- Monthly Cost
- $56.50
- Log Volume Retained
- 1,200.0 GB
- Logging Storage Charge
- $44.50
- Logging Analytics Charge
- $12.00
- Logging Analytics Storage Units
- 1
- Retained Volume in Bytes
- 1 TiB
- Effective Cost per GB Retained
- 0.0471 USD/GB
- Annual Cost
- $678.00
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI Logging Cost
- 3Monthly Cost= 56.50
- 4Log Volume Retained= 1,200.0 GB
- 5Logging Storage Charge= 44.50
- 6Logging Analytics Charge= 12.00
- 7Logging Analytics Storage Units= 1
- 8Retained Volume in Bytes= 1,288,490,188,800
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 8 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 4 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is OCI Logging Cost calculated?
retained GB = daily GB × retention days; Logging charges max(0, plain GB − 10) × per-GB price, and Logging Analytics charges ceil(analytics GB ÷ 300) storage units. Logging bills the standing volume you keep, which is daily ingest multiplied by retention rather than the daily figure alone — 40 GB a day at 30 days is 1.2 TB on the meter. Logging Analytics prices differently again, in units of 300 GB, so its cost steps up in blocks and a partially filled unit is billed in full.
Why does OCI Logging Cost matter?
Retention is the multiplier nobody notices: doubling it doubles the bill without changing a single log line, and routing everything through Logging Analytics rather than a chosen subset is the fastest way to overspend. Confirm the per-GB and per-storage-unit prices in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 8 inputs: Log volume per day, Retention, Log storage price per GB-month, Free log storage allowance, Send a share to Logging Analytics, Share sent to Logging Analytics, GB per Logging Analytics storage unit, Price per Logging Analytics storage unit. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.