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Is billed volume measured before or after a data processing pipeline?

  • Nov 13, 2026 12:42 PM UTC
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secops_maneesh
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Hi all,

I have WINEVTLOG arriving via the Ingestion API (Bindplane agents and gateways) into Google SecOps. I plan to add a data processing pipeline on that stream with a Transform processor that shortens each log.

The documentation says:

  • "View billed ingestion volume": billing is based on raw log bytes ingested, measured from ingestion metrics with component = "Ingestion API".
  • "Manage data processing pipelines": pipeline filters are applied after data has been received by the Chronicle Ingestion API.

So:

  1. Is billed volume based on the log size before the pipeline or after it?
  2. Does the same apply when a pipeline Filter drops a log entirely?

Thanks.

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cmorris
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  • Nov 13, 2026 12:59 PM UTC

Billed volume is measured after the pipeline. The component = "Ingestion API" byte count is recorded only after Filter/Transform/Redact have run and the log is stored, so a shortened WINEVTLOG is billed at its shortened raw size. A log dropped by a Filter will also not be included.