Metric Usage Reporter

Overview

The Metric Usage Reporter gathers one usage number per contract and sends them to the Mimir data source in your Grafana Dashboard.

Benefits

• Historical view: See ingestion trends per contract over days, weeks, or months directly in the Grafana dashboards you already own.

• Cost awareness: Track usage to estimate costs and detect unexpected spikes.

• Capacity planning: Spot spikes early and forecast future storage or query‑load needs.

• Self‑service: No need to open tickets; the data lives in a Grafana dashboard that you already have.

• Alert‑ready: The counter can be used as a reliable source for automated alerts on abnormal usage.

Metrics

Metric	Type	Scope	Description
ionos_usage_metrics_ingested_samples	counter	contract-wide	Number of samples (time‑series points) ingested for the last 5 minutes

View the metric

In your Grafana dashboard, go to Explore → select Mimir as the datasource.

Select ionos_usage_metrics_ingested_samples from the Metric drop-down list and click Run query to view the metrics.