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Billing and usage management

Temporal Cloud provides billing and costs information for your account. Use this information to assess your spending patterns, inspect your credit ledger, check your invoice histories, update payment details, and manage your current plan as needed.

For more information on current Temporal Cloud pricing for Actions, storage, and services/support, please visit our Pricing page.

Usage on Temporal is measured in Actions and Storage. This can help understand your bills, forecast usage, optimize Workflows, and troubleshoot errors. You can view your Action usage in multiple ways. The following tools are available for measuring Usage and Billing:

  • Billing Center: Allows you to see summary invoices and credits, manage plans, and delete your accounts.

    • Viewable by Account Owners and Finance Admin

  • Billing API: Allows you to access billing information on a Namespace basis down to an hourly granularity, enriched with Tags and Projects. The Billing API provides a FOCUS-guided data format that can be ingested into your cloud cost management platform or analytics tooling.

    • Viewable by Account Owners and Finance Admin
Support, stability, and dependency info

The Temporal Cloud Billing API is in Pre-release.

  • Usage Dashboards: Aggregate Actions on a Namespace level and includes Action categories that groups similar types of Actions as seen in Actions. Available in the Cloud UI in the usage dashboard and Namespace overview pages.

    • Viewable by Account Owners, Finance Admin, Global Admin on an account level. Namespace level usage is visible on the Namespace pages to those with access.

  • Actions in Workflow History: Highlights Actions in a given Workflow History via the Temporal Cloud UI. Note that some Actions are not measured in Workflow histories.

    • Viewable by Account Owners, Global Admin and Namespace Admin, Developers and Read-only

  • Actions Metrics: A high cardinality billable action metric that include labels for Category, Action Type, Workflow Type and Namespace down to minute granularity.

    • Viewable by creating a service account with the "Metrics Read-Only" role. See the OpenMetrics page for more information.
Support, stability, and dependency info

Temporal Cloud Action Metrics is in Public Preview.