AI AGENTS

Observability Cost Allocation Report

Monthly, an agent pulls Datadog and Honeycomb usage, allocates spend to teams and services by tags, writes the breakdown to Snowflake, and posts a chargeback summary to Slack.

CategoryAI Agents
EngineSim + Paperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerMonthly allocation schedule
  • ActionPull Datadog and Honeycomb usageDatadogDatadog
  • LogicMap and reconcile spend to teams
  • ActionAgent normalizes allocation tableOpenAI
  • ActionWrite allocation rows to SnowflakeSnowflakeSnowflake
  • OutputPost chargeback summary to SlackSlack

What it does

Builds a monthly observability chargeback report. The agent gathers usage and cost from both Datadog and Honeycomb, maps each slice of spend to a team or service using your tagging scheme, lands the structured allocation in Snowflake for finance to query, and posts a top-line summary of who spent what to Slack.

When to use it

Use it when observability is a shared cost center and engineering leadership wants per-team accountability. Ideal for FinOps and platform teams running monthly cost reviews who need an auditable, queryable record rather than a one-off screenshot.

How it works

  1. 1A monthly schedule starts the allocation run.
  2. 2The agent pulls per-service usage and cost from Datadog and event-volume cost from Honeycomb.
  3. 3A logic step maps untagged or ambiguous spend to an unallocated bucket and reconciles totals.
  4. 4The agent normalizes both sources into a single team-and-service allocation table.
  5. 5It writes the allocation rows to Snowflake for finance reporting.
  6. 6A chargeback summary with the biggest spenders posts to Slack.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  2. 2
    Connect HoneycombDistributed traces and queries.
  3. 3
    Connect SnowflakeWarehouses, queries, shares.
  4. 4
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  5. 5
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  6. 6
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  7. 7
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  8. 8
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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