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adutta-newrelic committed Dec 3, 2025
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As organizations scale their observability practices, managing data ingestion becomes critical for cost optimization and predictable spending. Data ingest budgets help you shift from reactive to proactive cost management by tracking how much data your organization sends to New Relic, setting spending limits based on gigabytes (GB) ingested, and configuring alert thresholds to prevent unexpected charges.
As organizations scale their observability practices, managing data ingestion becomes critical for cost optimization and predictable spending. Data ingest budgets help you shift from reactive to proactive cost management by tracking how much data your organization ingests, setting spending limits based on gigabytes (GB) ingested, and configuring alert thresholds to prevent unexpected charges.

Building upon the success of Compute Budgets, this feature addresses common challenges:
This feature addresses common challenges:

- **Unpredictable costs**: Forecast your monthly bills despite fluctuating data volumes
- **Limited control**: Set budgets for specific accounts, teams, or applications
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## Who uses data ingest budgets

Data ingest budgets serve different roles within your organization, each with specific responsibilities:
Different roles in your organization use data ingest budgets for specific purposes:

### Organization managers

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### Team leads

If you manage a team or department, you can:
As a team lead, you can:

- **Monitor team budgets**: Track your team's data ingestion to ensure it stays within allocated limits
- **Request budget adjustments**: Submit requests for budget increases when needed for high-priority tasks or unexpected usage spikes
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### General users

As a general user working with New Relic, you can:
As a general user, you can:

- **Track project usage**: Monitor data ingestion for projects you're responsible for
- **Respond to warnings**: Take action when budget alerts are triggered, such as optimizing resource usage
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By default, we configure this based on your monthly contract commitments.
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2. You can increase or decrease the budget amount based on your realistic usage. For example, if you expect to utilize 250 GB in a month, update the value accordingly.
2. You can increase or decrease the budget amount based on your expected usage. For example, if you anticipate using 250 GB in a month, update the value accordingly.
3. Click **Next**.
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