Query fair usage in Grafana Cloud: What it is and how it affects your logs observability practice

Grafana Cloud utilizes a “query fair usage” policy allowing users to query up to 100x their monthly ingested log volume without additional charges. The article explains how to monitor your query usage ratio through the billing dashboard and a dedicated Loki query fair usage dashboard to identify potential overages. It also provides best practices, like optimizing alerting rules and filtering queries, to stay within the policy and avoid unexpected costs.