# Telemetry

In Finout, **telemetry** refers to the **data points you want to bring into the platform** to improve insights, monitoring, and cost management. Finout imports telemetry **daily**, and you can use it for things like **unit economics**, **shared cost breakdowns**, and **telemetry-based widgets**<br>

The Telemetry managment tab enables you to view and manage how telemetry data is used across Finout, providing a centralized view of all ingested telemetry. From here, you can track which telemetry is active, see its source, and quickly find specific telemetry using free-text search. This makes it easier to control which data points are used in unit economics, shared cost breakdowns, and telemetry-based widgets, ensuring your insights are accurate, relevant, and easy to maintain.

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1. **Telemetry Status**: Choose to filter by active (default status) or inactive (result of deactivation).
2. **Telemetry Source**: Choose to filter by the source of the telemetry.
3. **Telemetry Search**: Free-text search of the telemetry table.
4. **Deactivate Telemetry**: Deactivating telemetry pauses data ingestion, but prior data remains available.

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   1. Navigate to **Settings** > **Cost Centers**.
   2. Click ![](https://3858159242-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FWqjB2puKXPDR7L86FX2e%2Fuploads%2F2TS42AWLee4r5A6Lh9zW%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=a7a03f10-1b56-4b86-9954-73725460f5b1) and then click **Deactivate Cost Center**.<br>

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   3. Click **Deactivate**.\
      The cost center is deactivated. It stays in the cost center management page as *Inactive*.
5. **Telemetry Table**: A table displaying all the telemetry that you have in Finout, with all their data.
6. **Add Telemetry** (Alpha): Add one of the following telemetry sources:
   * MegaBill View (Alpha) - Transform internal cost and usage data into telemetry.
   * S3 (Coming Soon) - Integrate telemetry data from an S3 bucket.
   * Datadog (Coming Soon) - Set up metrics from Datadog.