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Author: bwren

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 # Cost optimization and Azure Monitor
-
-To understand how [Azure Monitor](overview.md) supports cost optimization, start by understanding the different ways that Azure Monitor charges and how to view your monthly bill. See [Azure Monitor cost and usage](usage-estimated-costs.md) for a complete description of how Azure Monitor is billed and the different tools available to analyze your charges.
+You can significantly reduce your cost for Azure Monitor by understanding your different configuration options and opportunities to reduce the amount of data that it collects. Before you use this article, you should see [Azure Monitor cost and usage](usage-estimated-costs.md) tounderstand the different ways that Azure Monitor charges and how to view your monthly bill.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > This article describes **Cost optimization** for Azure Monitor as part of the [Azure Well-Architected Framework](/azure/architecture/framework/). This is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload. The framework consists of five pillars of architectural excellence:

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   items:
   - name: What is Azure Monitor?
     href: overview.md
+  - name: What is observability?
+    href: observability-data.md  
   - name: What can you monitor?
     href: monitor-reference.md
-  - name: What is observability?
-    href: observability-data.md    
   - name: What's new?
     href: whats-new.md
   - name: View and estimate charges
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       href: essentials/activity-log.md
     - name: Resource logs
       href: essentials/resource-logs.md
-    - name: Logs ingestion API
-      items:
-      - name: Overview
-        displayName: data ingestion
-        href: logs/logs-ingestion-api-overview.md
-      - name: Migrate from Data Collector API
-        href: logs/custom-logs-migrate.md
-      - name: Tutorials
-        items:
-        - name: Send data to Azure Monitor Logs using REST API
-          href: logs/tutorial-logs-ingestion-portal.md
-        - name: Send data to Azure Monitor Logs with ARM templates
-          href: logs/tutorial-logs-ingestion-api.md        
-      - name: Data collector API
-        items:
-        - name: Overview
-          href: logs/data-collector-api.md
-        - name: Log Analytics Data collector API
-          href: logs/data-collector-api.md
-        - name: Log Analytics Data Collector API Pipeline example
-          href: logs/create-pipeline-datacollector-api.md
-    - name: Data security
-      items:
-        - name: Roles permissions and security
-          href: roles-permissions-security.md
-        - name: Log data
-          href: logs/data-security.md
-        - name: Customer-managed keys
-          href: logs/customer-managed-keys.md
-        - name: Private storage
-          href: logs/private-storage.md
-        - name: Personal log data handling
-          href: logs/personal-data-mgmt.md
-        - name: Application data collection, retention, and storage
-          href: app/data-retention-privacy.md
     - name: Log Analytics workspaces
       items:
         - name: Overview
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           - name: Resource Manager templates
             displayName: Workspace transformations
             href: logs/tutorial-workspace-transformations-api.md
+    - name: Data security
+      items:
+        - name: Roles permissions and security
+          href: roles-permissions-security.md
+        - name: Log data
+          href: logs/data-security.md
+        - name: Customer-managed keys
+          href: logs/customer-managed-keys.md
+        - name: Private storage
+          href: logs/private-storage.md
+        - name: Personal log data handling
+          href: logs/personal-data-mgmt.md
+        - name: Application data collection, retention, and storage
+          href: app/data-retention-privacy.md
+    - name: Logs ingestion API
+      items:
+      - name: Overview
+        displayName: data ingestion
+        href: logs/logs-ingestion-api-overview.md
+      - name: Migrate from Data Collector API
+        href: logs/custom-logs-migrate.md
+      - name: Tutorials
+        items:
+        - name: Send data to Azure Monitor Logs using REST API
+          href: logs/tutorial-logs-ingestion-portal.md
+        - name: Send data to Azure Monitor Logs with ARM templates
+          href: logs/tutorial-logs-ingestion-api.md        
+      - name: Data collector API
+        items:
+        - name: Overview
+          href: logs/data-collector-api.md
+        - name: Log Analytics Data collector API
+          href: logs/data-collector-api.md
+        - name: Log Analytics Data Collector API Pipeline example
+          href: logs/create-pipeline-datacollector-api.md
     - name: Integrate with Logic Apps
       items:
         - name: Azure Monitor Logs connector