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Not all cost increases are a problem. More customers, higher traffic, or new workloads will naturally increase cloud spend. But when finance reviews the bill, that nuance is usually lost.
Engineering needs a way to link cost increases to business growth and defend scaling decisions.

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How Costory Helps

Costory allows you to ingest business or usage metrics into the same interface as your cloud cost data.

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Supported Sources

Datadog

Import metrics directly from your monitoring stack

Data Warehouses

BigQuery, Parquet, CSV imports

Custom Sources

Spreadsheets or APIs for business metrics
Unit Economics

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Define Unit Economics

Once metrics are imported, teams can define unit economics like:

Cost per Active Customer

Track infrastructure efficiency per user

Storage Cost per Document

Monitor storage efficiency at the resource level

Lambda Cost per OCR Job

Measure serverless cost per operation

Custom KPIs

Define metrics specific to your business
These metrics can be visualized over time and scoped by team, product, or region.

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Benefits

Quantify Efficiency

Track infra efficiency with unit KPIs

Better Finance Communication

Enable clearer ROI discussions with finance

Validate Investments

Prove the value of performance and architecture work

Defend Scaling Costs

Justify growth-related cost increases with data

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Next Steps

Connect Usage Metrics

Set up your metric sources.

Cost Explorer

Visualize unit economics over time.