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LABINTERMEDIATE

Cost Tracking Dashboard

Implement token usage tracking, cost attribution, and create a Grafana dashboard for LLM spend visibility.

45 minutes
ai-infrastructure/cost-optimization
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to build cost tracking for LLM applications.

You'll learn to:

  • Track token usage per request
  • Calculate costs based on provider pricing
  • Attribute costs to teams and applications
  • Export metrics to Prometheus
  • Create Grafana dashboards for cost visibility

What You'll Learn

Track LLM token usage per request and calculate costs based on provider pricing models

Attribute costs to teams and applications using labels and metadata

Export cost and token metrics to Prometheus using a custom Python exporter

Build a Grafana dashboard to visualize LLM spend trends and per-team attribution

Identify cost optimization opportunities by analyzing usage patterns across providers

Prerequisites

basic-metrics-concepts

kubernetes-basics

Technologies Covered

llmprometheusgrafanacost-managementmetrics

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This lab is part of the LLM Integration and API Patterns course

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