Data ingest: Billing and rules

For organizations on our usage-based pricing model, the data ingested and stored to your New Relic organization is one billing factor.

View data ingest in the UI

For how to find billing and usage information in the UI, see Billing-related UI.

Data options: Data Plus and original

Your organization's price per GB of ingested data varies depending on which data option you have:

The Data Plus data option gives you a more powerful set of features and query limits.

The cost for ingested Data Plus data above the free allowance of 100 GBs per month depends on your data center region:

US: $0.50 per GB
EU: $0.55 per GB

Data Plus requires an organization with:

Pro or Enterprise edition, and
The core version of our usage-based pricing

To upgrade to Data Plus, you'll go to the Data retention UI and click Edit data retention. If you meet the requirements and don't see the upgrade option, talk to your New Relic account representative.

Here are details about Data Plus features and availability:

Increased query limits, upon enablement, of up to one trillion data points per 30 minutes and 100 billion data points per minute (compared to lower limits like 300 billion data points per 30 minutes for our original data option).
Increased max query duration of two minutes for a regular query and 10 minutes for an asynchronous query.
Increased retention of several important data types (learn more).
Our log obfuscation UI.
Streaming data export, which lets you stream ingested data to AWS Kinesis.
With Enterprise edition: FedRAMP and HIPAA-compliant data security, for eligible customers. (Enterprise edition not yet available for Azure Native New Relic Service.)
Historical data export, which lets you run larger queries with no timeout. (Not yet available for Azure Native New Relic Service.)
Vulnerability Management. (Not yet available for Azure Native New Relic Service.)
More features will be added (learn more).

To see a side-by-side comparison of Data Plus and our original data option, see our Data Plus blog post. For an overview of our pricing options, see the pricing page.

Want to get Data Plus? Talk to your account representative.

Our original data option lacks the higher performance and other features that come with the Data Plus option.

The cost for ingested data above the free allowance of 100 GBs per month depends on your data center region:

US: $0.30 per GB
EU: $0.35 per GB

If you're not sure what your data costs, see your invoices in the Manage your plan UI.

To see a side-by-side comparison of Data Plus and our original data option, see our Data Plus blog post.

Want to upgrade to Data Plus? Talk to your account representative.

What counts as billable ingested data?

For our usage-based pricing model, “ingested data” refers to the data saved to New Relic by your organization after we apply various data trimming and data transformation rules. In other words, it's not the amount of raw data sent to New Relic, but the size of the data that actually ends up being stored.

Here are some notes about New Relic features and data that do not count towards ingest and billing:

Basic alerting functionality doesn't count towards billing.
Applied intelligence data reported from third-party services counts towards billing but internally generated data (for example, NrIncidentEvent data) does not.
Golden metrics don't count towards billing. (For details about how those are defined, see our entity definitions).
Synthetic monitor checks don't count towards billable ingested data. For details on synthetics billing, see Synthetics limits and pricing.
Usage-tracking data (for example, NrUsage, NrMTDConsumption, NrConsumption) doesn't count towards billing.
Data related to organization and account administration (for example, NrIntegrationError, NrAuditEvent) doesn't count towards billing.

To understand your usage, see the usage UI.

Other calculation details

In the context of our usage-based pricing model, a GB is defined as 1 billion bytes.
Monthly data ingested is rounded down to the nearest integer. For example, if your account uses 100.9 GBs during a month, that's counted as 100 GBs.

Other usage-related billing factors

Besides ingested data, there can be other platform-usage options that affect billing:

For more on how data is ingested, see Manage data ingest.
For how to estimate data ingest and cost, see Data ingest estimator.
For how to query usage, see Query and alert on usage.

Free tier data ingest limits

If your organization is on our free tier and your data ingest exceeds 100 GBs in a calendar month, your data ingest is disabled until the beginning of the next month. Note that when ingest is disabled, the re-enabling of ingest at the start of the following month may take up to 24 hours.