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title: "Host hours pricing | Database Observability documentation"
description: "How Database Observability billing works and where to find pricing details."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Host hours pricing

Database Observability billing has three components: a per-host hourly fee for each connected database instance, metrics usage, and logs usage.

For the full pricing model — what counts as a host, how connection-based billing works, what drives telemetry volume, retention, and how charges appear on your bill — refer to [Database Observability pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/database-observability/). For current rates, refer to the [Grafana Cloud pricing page](/pricing/#database-observability).

## Reduce your costs

To reduce host hours or telemetry volume, refer to [Reduce Database Observability costs](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/analyze-costs/reduce-costs/database-observability-costs/).

For environment-specific collection settings, including high-volume and low-resource presets, refer to [Tune Alloy collection](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/configure/tune-alloy-collection/).

## Related documentation

- [Host hours billing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/host-hours/): How host hours billing works across Grafana Cloud products.
- [Telemetry reference](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/reference/telemetry-reference/): Full list of collected metrics and logs.
- [Labels](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/reference/labels/): How labels affect series cardinality.