Elastic Cloud Cost Optimization
Cut your Elastic Cloud bill. OhChimp reads per-deployment costs, flags heavy data transfer, and tiers hot-only storage to cheaper warm, cold, and frozen.
What OhChimp optimizes for Elastic Cloud
Some of the cost levers OhChimp checks for Elastic Cloud. Each one becomes a reviewable plan you approve before anything changes.
Per-deployment cost breakdown
Your organization bill collapses many deployments into one number. OhChimp reads month-to-date billed dollars per deployment and splits each one into capacity, data transfer, and storage, sorted by cost. The expensive deployments and their cost drivers surface before you plan a fix.
Organization-wide dimension split
OhChimp sums every deployment into an organization-level view of where the money goes: how much of the bill is capacity, how much is data transfer, and how much is storage. That tells you which lever moves the bill most before you touch a single deployment.
Data transfer eating the bill
OhChimp flags any deployment where data transfer (ingress, egress, and inter-node traffic) runs at 20% or more of its month-to-date bill. The plan points at cross-zone replication and client traffic: co-locate clients in the deployment's region, prefer a single availability zone for non-HA workloads, and cache or compress responses to cut egress.
Hot-only storage that should tier
OhChimp inspects deployment topology and flags clusters running a large hot tier (64 GB or more of hot nodes) with no warm, cold, or frozen tier configured. The plan uses index lifecycle management to roll older, rarely-queried indices onto cheaper, higher-density hardware, with frozen serving from object storage, while keeping the data searchable.
Worked example
For example, say OhChimp reads your organization costs and finds one deployment running 90 GB of hot-tier nodes with no warm, cold, or frozen tier, plus a second deployment spending 28% of its month-to-date bill on data transfer.
It drafts an ILM tiering plan for the hot-heavy deployment and a transfer-review plan for the second, each with a confidence score and rollback steps. You press apply. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single Elastic Cloud plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED. The saving stays an estimate, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive."
Elastic Cloud cost optimization FAQ
How does OhChimp connect to Elastic Cloud?
With an organization-level Elastic Cloud API key that has the billing admin role. OhChimp sends it over Elastic's ApiKey authorization scheme and makes read-only GET calls to the Billing Costs Analysis API and the deployment inventory and topology endpoints. It never stores application data, secrets, or workload contents.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my data?
No. OhChimp uses a read-only organization API key and reads billed costs and deployment configuration only. It reads dollar amounts per deployment and the node topology, never your indices, documents, secrets, or workload contents.
What Elastic Cloud costs can OhChimp actually reduce?
It reads a per-deployment cost breakdown split into capacity, data transfer, and storage, rolls that up into an organization-wide dimension split, flags deployments where data transfer runs at 20% or more of the bill, and flags deployments running a large hot tier with no warm, cold, or frozen tier, where index lifecycle management can move cold data to cheaper hardware.
What is an Elastic Consumption Unit (ECU), and how does OhChimp read them?
Elastic Cloud meters all usage in Elastic Consumption Units (ECUs), and one ECU has a nominal value of $1.00. Each ECU rolls up the same dimensions OhChimp already splits your bill into: capacity (RAM-hours), data transfer (inter-node traffic and data out), and snapshot storage. OhChimp reads your billed costs per deployment through Elastic's Billing Costs Analysis API, breaks them back into those dimensions, and raises plans against the specific levers it covers: data transfer that runs 20% or more of a deployment's bill, and a large hot tier with no warm, cold, or frozen tier to fall back on. Each plan estimates its saving in the same units your Elastic Cloud invoice already reports.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Each fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing changes until you click apply, and OhChimp applies the matching code and infrastructure changes together.
How are the savings verified, and how is OhChimp priced?
Today Elastic Cloud savings stay estimates. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single Elastic Cloud plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED, and when the 30 days of monitoring end the result reads "Inconclusive." The only savings OhChimp measures today come from lowering the CPU and memory requests of a Kubernetes Deployment, StatefulSet, or DaemonSet. Pricing is a flat monthly fee with no cut of your savings, plus a year-one ROI guarantee that lets you request a refund of your first 12 months of subscription fees if the verified savings on your Costs tab fall short of them. Estimated savings do not count.
Related integrations
Teams running Elastic Cloud usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and drafts every fix as a plan you approve.
ClickHouse Cloud
Idle scaling, compute, and storage tiers
Redis Cloud
Plan tier, memory, and throughput fit
MongoDB Atlas
Cluster tier, storage, and idle compute