Price a Retention Policy Before Thirty Days of Logs Become Ninety

How to Use This Tool

Estimate stored log volume after retention, replication and compression. The calculator starts with logs ingested gb per day and combines it with retention days, copies or replicas and stored-size ratio. Every field is editable because a benchmark borrowed from another account is not evidence about your own economics.

The operational pain this solves

Replication protects availability but multiplies storage; compression reduces bytes, not the number of retained events. This is the detail that makes the tool decision-oriented rather than a decorative calculator. Enter a recent, representative period and keep the units consistent. If one input is a monthly figure, every other recurring input must describe that same month.

How to use the answer

Treat the result as a threshold for a decision, not as an accounting record or platform guarantee. First reconcile the baseline against a real statement, analytics export or invoice. Then test a conservative case and an optimistic case. If a small input change reverses the decision, the right next step is better data or a safety margin, not more decimal places.

Model boundary

The page calculates only the four factors shown above. Tax, refunds, timing, minimum charges, tiered pricing and regional rules may sit outside that boundary. Platform terms also change. The verification date tells you when the official reference was last reviewed; current account documentation remains authoritative.