https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627995#M1999 <P>There is no difference.</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:16:32 GMT richgalloway 2023-01-23T14:16:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627930#M1998 <P>Hello. We're trying to integrate our Golang application to splunk through APM by following this <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/gdi/get-data-in/application/go/instrumentation/instrument-go-application.html#send-data-directly-to-observability-cloud" target="_self">documentation</A>&nbsp;<BR />Is there any difference especially in terms of cost when sending the data directly to splunk compared to using the splunk collector?</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 04:06:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627930#M1998 bernasable 2023-01-23T04:06:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627995#M1999 <P>There is no difference.</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:16:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627995#M1999 richgalloway 2023-01-23T14:16:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627998#M2000 <P>Splunk license usage (apart from the rarely used "work-based license") is counted when the data is actually written to index on the indexer. It doesn't matter where the data comes from, or how it was processed "in transit" (for example - if you ingest 1GB of data from files/syslog/apps/whatever, then filter it and discard half of it so only 500MB gets written to indexes - only this 500MB counts against your license.</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:52:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/Splunk-Pricing-for-Sending-data/m-p/627998#M2000 PickleRick 2023-01-23T14:52:10Z