# Metricbeat AWS Module estimated costs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 7, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863 "2020-12-07T14:08:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jurilz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jurilz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jurilz)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863/1 "2020-12-07T14:08:03Z")

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Good day,

I'm thinking about the using metricbeats AWS module to collect and display metrics of one or several EC2 instances. And therefore I have to estimate the costs of AWS charges on CloudWatch API requests.

Let's say I use only the ec2 metricset with a collection period of 300 seconds (5 minutes). That makes 12 calls per hour, 288 calls per day and 8.784 calls per month. Suppose I get 25 metrics per call ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-aws-ec2.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-aws-ec2.html)).

This gives 219.600 metrics per month. According to this pricing table ([https://aws.amazon.com/de/cloudwatch/pricing/](https://aws.amazon.com/de/cloudwatch/pricing/)), this results in monthly costs of 23.960 USD.

Probably I made a mistake in my calculation. Maybe someone can fill me in.

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863/2 "2020-12-08T20:30:25Z")

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Hi! So it would be 219,600 metrics per month and for GetMetricData API, it is $0.01 per 1000 metrics so it would be $2.196 per month. The list of metrics you linked [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-aws-ec2.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-aws-ec2.html) are not all from CloudWatch. For example `instance.core.count`, `instance.image.id` and etc.

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**Author:** ![Jurilz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jurilz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jurilz)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863/3 "2020-12-16T10:43:53Z")

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Thank you @Kaiyan_Sheng.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-aws-module-estimated-costs/257863/4 "2021-01-13T12:44:03Z")

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