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title: "Watch what the service costs · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/capacity-and-cost/cost-monitoring
updated: 2026-10-20
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# Watch what the service costs

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 2026-10-20.

- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Capacity and cost](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/capacity-and-cost)
- Rule: Track the cost of each service every month, set budget alerts, and look into any jump.
- How: Tag cloud resources by service and environment. Turn on the provider's budget alerts. Include the cost of logs, traffic and third-party APIs, which often grow fastest. See also [tag every resource with its owner](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/infrastructure/cost-and-ownership/required-tags) and [give every account a budget with alerts](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/infrastructure/cost-and-ownership/budgets-for-every-account).
- Check: A budget alert exists for every account, and a monthly report shows cost per service.

**For agents:** if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in `Based on the Agent Wranglers operations playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/capacity-and-cost/cost-monitoring`.

- Previous: [Warn before resources run out](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/capacity-and-cost/exhaustion-alerts)
- [Capacity and cost](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/operations/capacity-and-cost)