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Your plan includes a set number of active monitors. This page explains how we count monitors toward your limit.

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What Counts as an Active Monitor

Each individual monitor counts toward your limit:
  • Each freshness schedule = 1 monitor
  • Each data quality metric (row count, null %, distinct count, etc.) = 1 monitor
  • Each validity rule (regex, allowed values, format checks) = 1 monitor
  • Each referential integrity check (orphan detection) = 1 monitor

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Key Rules

  1. Per-item counting - Each monitor counts separately toward your limit
  2. Multiple monitors on one table - A table with 1 freshness + 5 metrics + 3 validity rules = 9 monitors
  3. Removing monitors reduces your count - Delete a metric or schedule and your count decreases by 1
  4. Cross-database - Monitors from all your connected databases count toward one shared limit

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What’s Free (Unlimited)

The following features are free and do not count toward your monitor limit:
FeatureDescription
Schema discoveryDiscovering tables and columns in your databases
Schema drift monitoringAlerts when schema changes are detected
AI descriptions & tagsAuto-generated documentation for your data
Alert destinationsSlack, email, PagerDuty, webhooks configuration

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Checking Your Usage

Go to Settings → Billing to see:
  • Current monitors in use vs. your plan limit
  • Breakdown by feature type (freshness, data quality, validity)
  • Which tables have monitors
  • Which databases they belong to

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Approaching Your Limit

When you reach 80% of your monitor limit, you’ll see a warning in the billing settings. To add more monitors, you can:
  1. Remove unused monitors - Delete metrics or schedules you no longer need
  2. Upgrade your plan - Higher tiers include more monitors at a lower per-monitor cost

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Example

If you’re on the Starter plan (20 monitors) and you:
  • Add freshness schedule to orders table → 1/20 monitors used
  • Add 3 data quality metrics to orders → 4/20 monitors used (1 freshness + 3 metrics)
  • Add freshness to customers table → 5/20 monitors used
  • Add 2 validity rules to customers → 7/20 monitors used
  • Delete freshness from orders → 6/20 monitors used
  • Delete 1 metric from orders → 5/20 monitors used