# Viewing your CloudTrail cost and usage with Amazon Cost Explorer
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This section describes how you can view your CloudTrail costs and usage using [Amazon Cost Explorer](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-what-is.html). Cost Explorer gives you the ability to visualize, understand, and manage your Amazon costs and usage over time.

For details about CloudTrail pricing, see [Amazon CloudTrail Pricing](https://www.amazonaws.cn/cloudtrail/pricing/).

**To view CloudTrail cost and usage with Cost Explorer**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Cost Explorer console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/cost-management/home\#/custom](https://console.amazonaws.cn/cost-management/home#/custom).

1. Under **Time**, choose the date range you want to analyze.

1. Under **Group by**, for **Dimension**, choose **Usage type**.

1. Under **Filters**, for **Service**, choose **CloudTrail**.

The following image shows an example of a cost report filtered for CloudTrail and grouped by **Usage type**.

Review the **Usage type** to see which CloudTrail features generated the most cost. Each **Usage type** begins with the code for the Amazon Web Services Region where the charge was incurred.

The following table describes the CloudTrail usage types for each CloudTrail feature.


| CloudTrail feature | Usage type | Description | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| CloudTrail trails | `{{region}}-FreeEventsRecorded` | The first copy of management events delivered free of charge to an Amazon Web Services Region.  | 
| CloudTrail trails | `{{region}}-PaidEventsRecorded` | The charge for additional copies of management events delivered to an Amazon Web Services Region. | 
| CloudTrail trails | `{{region}}-DataEventsRecorded` | The charge for delivery of data events to an Amazon Web Services Region. Data events always incur charges. | 
| CloudTrail trails | `{{region}}-NetworkEventsRecorded` | The charge for delivery of network activity events to an Amazon Web Services Region. Network activity events always incur charges. | 
| CloudTrail Lake | `{{region}}-Ingestion-Bytes` | The charge for ingesting events into a CloudTrail Lake event data store using the **Seven-year retention pricing** option. Ingestion pricing is based on the volume of data ingested and is the same for all event types. | 
| CloudTrail Lake | `{{region}}-Ingestion-Bytes-1yearstore-Live-CloudTrail-Logs` | The charge for ingesting CloudTrail data events, network activity events, and management events into a CloudTrail Lake event data store using the **One-year extendable retention pricing** option. | 
| CloudTrail Lake | `{{region}}-Ingestion-Bytes-1yearstore-Other-data-sources` | The charge for ingesting other event sources into a CloudTrail Lake event data store using the **One-year extendable retention pricing** option. This includes CloudTrail Insights events, configuration items from Amazon Config, evidence from Amazon Audit Manager, (uncompressed) historical CloudTrail logs imported from S3, and events outside of Amazon. | 
| CloudTrail Lake | `{{region}}-QueryScanned-Bytes` | The charge for running CloudTrail Lake queries. When you run queries in CloudTrail Lake, you incur charges based on the amount of optimized and compressed data scanned. | 
| CloudTrail Insights | `{{region}}-InsightsEvents` | The charge for CloudTrail Insights events. For Insights events, you incur charges based on the number of management events analyzed per Insight type. For more information, see [Costs for Insights events](insights-events-costs.md). |