How to get cost of query in appinsights?

Question

I am trying to run a query and would need to reduce the cost by using different operations. how can we get a cost of query in Application Insights logs?

Answer 1

By default, costs of queries are free (with a standard tier of Log Analytics workspace behind the scense)

But if you change the supported table "AppTraces" to basic logs (which are cheaper than standard), a query to the particular table will cost you

Basic Log search $0.007 per GB of data scanned

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/basic-logs-configure?tabs=portal-1%2Cportal-2#which-tables-support-basic-logs