OCI Monitoring Calculator

Count the datapoints your OCI resources emit and price ingestion and retrieval above the generous free allowances.

About OCI Monitoring Calculator

Monitoring meters datapoints, not resources, so cost is driven by the product of resource count, metrics per resource and posting frequency. Moving from a 60-second to a 5-minute interval cuts the datapoint count by a factor of five, which is usually the cheapest lever available. The free allowances are large enough that most estates never pay for Monitoring at all, but a high-cardinality custom metric posted every minute across thousands of resources crosses the line quickly — and retrieval is metered too, so busy dashboards on wide time ranges count. Confirm the per-million prices and current allowances in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.

Formula

OCI Monitoring

datapoints = resources × metrics × (2,592,000 ÷ interval seconds); charge = max(0, datapoints − free allowance) × price per million, applied separately to ingestion and retrieval.

2,592,000: Seconds in a 30-day month, used to count posting intervals
free allowance: 500 million datapoints ingested and 1 billion retrieved, at no charge
series: Resources multiplied by metrics — each combination is one time series

Worked example

With the default values below, OCI Monitoring Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $4.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Monitored resourcesaccepts 1–1,000,000 resources: 200 resources
Metrics per resourceaccepts 1–500 metrics: 12 metrics
Posting intervalone of Every 60 seconds, Every 5 minutes, Every 10 minutes, Every hour: Every 60 seconds
Free ingestion allowanceaccepts 0–5,000 million datapoints: 500 million datapoints
Ingestion price per million datapointsaccepts 0–10 USD: 0.03 USD
Datapoints retrieved by queries and dashboardsaccepts 0–100,000 million: 1,400 million
Free retrieval allowanceaccepts 0–20,000 million datapoints: 1,000 million datapoints
Retrieval price per million datapointsaccepts 0–10 USD: 0.01 USD

Results

Monthly Cost: $4.00
Datapoints Ingested: 103.7 million/month
Billable Ingestion: 0.0 million
Ingestion Charge: $0.00
Billable Retrieval: 400.0 million
Retrieval Charge: $4.00
Datapoints per Minute: 2,400
Cost per Resource: $0.0200

Step by step

1Values used
2OCI Monitoring
3Monthly Cost= 4.00
4Datapoints Ingested= 103.7 million/month
5Billable Ingestion= 0.0 million
6Ingestion Charge= 0.00
7Billable Retrieval= 400.0 million
8Retrieval Charge= 4.00

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 Monitoring calculated?

datapoints = resources × metrics × (2,592,000 ÷ interval seconds); charge = max(0, datapoints − free allowance) × price per million, applied separately to ingestion and retrieval. Monitoring meters datapoints, not resources, so cost is driven by the product of resource count, metrics per resource and posting frequency. Moving from a 60-second to a 5-minute interval cuts the datapoint count by a factor of five, which is usually the cheapest lever available.

Why does OCI Monitoring matter?

The free allowances are large enough that most estates never pay for Monitoring at all, but a high-cardinality custom metric posted every minute across thousands of resources crosses the line quickly — and retrieval is metered too, so busy dashboards on wide time ranges count. Confirm the per-million prices and current allowances in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.

What values do I need to enter?

This calculator takes 8 inputs: Monitored resources, Metrics per resource, Posting interval, Free ingestion allowance, Ingestion price per million datapoints, Datapoints retrieved by queries and dashboards, Free retrieval allowance, Retrieval price per million datapoints. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.