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DPU Usage: Understanding Your Consumption

Learn what DPUs (Data Processing Units) are, how to monitor your consumption and storage usage, and tips to optimize your plan limits.

DPU (Data Processing Units) track your platform consumption. Monitor your usage to stay within your plan limits.

Check Your Current Usage

  1. Look at the lower-left corner of the sidebar
  2. You will see:
    • Current DPU consumption vs your plan limit
    • Storage used vs capacity (in GB)
    • Days remaining in the billing cycle
  3. Usage data refreshes daily

Understand What Consumes DPUs

Core Operations

  • Pipeline triggers: Every time a pipeline runs (manually or on schedule)
  • Data ingestion: Syncing data from external sources
  • Dataset refreshes: Computing updated results in the Warehouse
  • Flows: Running reverse ETL to external tools

Infrastructure and Add-ons

  • VPN connections to on-premises data sources
  • Data Migration Services
  • Bastion hosts for secure network access
  • Data gateways for firewall-protected data

Optimize If Needed

  1. Review schedules: Not every dataset needs to refresh daily. Match the schedule to how often the source data changes.
  2. Consolidate loads: Combine smaller data loads into single jobs where possible
  3. Check downstream triggers: Review if all automatic cascading refreshes are necessary
  4. Pause unused connections: Pausing connections that are not actively needed reduces consumption
  5. Evaluate infrastructure: Review whether all VPN tunnels and gateways are still required

Billing Models

  1. Pay-As-You-Go: Charges based on actual DPU consumption
  2. Monthly Included DPUs: Fixed monthly credits with overage charges for usage beyond the included amount

For questions about your plan or usage, contact [email protected].

Updated 4 days ago