import Prerequisites from "/snippets/standard-prerequisites.mdx" import SkillsCredentials from "/snippets/skills-credentials.mdx"
The Control costs skill helps AI agents optimize Axiom usage and reduce costs:
- Waste identification: Find unused columns, never-queried datasets, and high-volume low-value data
- Query analysis: Analyze query patterns to identify optimization opportunities
- Dashboard deployment: Deploy cost control dashboards with ingest trends, burn rate, and projections
- Monitor creation: Set up monitors for contract limits, spike detection, and reduction glidepaths
- Analysis workflow: Systematic approach to prioritize and analyze datasets by impact
Use Control costs skill
The Control costs skill activates automatically when you ask your AI agent to:
- Reduce Axiom costs or find waste
- Set up cost control dashboards and monitors
- Analyze query coverage and unused data
- Track ingest spend and burn rate
Example prompts:
- "Help reduce Axiom costs"
- "Find unused columns in the datasets"
- "Set up cost control monitoring for the organization"
- "Which datasets are being paid for but never queried?"
Cost control workflow
The Control costs skill follows a phased approach:
| Phase | Description |
|---|---|
| Discovery | Capture baseline ingest statistics and build analysis queue |
| Dashboard | Deploy cost control dashboard with trends and projections |
| Monitors | Create monitors for contract limits and spike detection |
| Optimization | Analyze datasets to find waste and recommend actions |
| Glidepath | Track reduction progress with weekly threshold updates |