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name: monitoring-service_plans
title: Service plans
description: This topic includes information about the IBM Cloud Monitoring service plans.
last-updated: 2024-11-14
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# Service plans
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This topic includes information about the IBM Cloud Monitoring service plans.
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When you provision an instance of the Monitoring service, you can choose any of the following service plans:

| Plans                                      | Plan ID                                | Plan Name                   |
|--------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| `Lite`                                     | `367a3918-9efc-43c5-bef9-20553051b7af` | `lite`                      |
| `Graduated Tier`                           | `231bb072-1b2f-4d7e-ae9e-9574d382be32` | `graduated-tier`            |
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You can provision a Monitoring instance with the `Lite` service plan to try out the Monitoring service for free for 30 days.

The `Graduated tier` service plan includes features that you can use to gain operational visibility into the performance and health of your applications, services, and platforms. It offers administrators, DevOps teams and developers full-stack telemetry with advanced features to monitor and troubleshoot, define alerts, and design custom dashboards.