Usage and costs
Settings › Usage & Costs shows how much Polaris is used and what it costs. Admins see everything. Context admins can use Chats replay.
Filters
Section titled “Filters”Filter every chart and table by:
- Period: last 24 hours, last 15 days, last 6 months, or a custom period. Create custom periods with Create period filter: a number of days and an hourly, daily or monthly grouping.
- Provider, Users, Source, Votes and Tool state.
- Split per user, to show one series per person.
Messages
Section titled “Messages”The messages chart shows the number of messages by source or by user, with Total messages and Unique users. Sources include Web, Slack, MCP, Admin mode and Tests.
Tokens and cost
Section titled “Tokens and cost”Switch between Show in tokens and Show in dollars. Tokens are split into input, output, cache read and cache write.
Costs are estimates: Polaris multiplies the tokens of each type by the model’s price per million tokens. They include background work such as memory, chat titles, summaries and subagents. For prices, see Models.
Chats replay
Section titled “Chats replay”Chats replay lists chats with their last update, title, user, source, number of messages, tokens, cost, votes and tool state. Search with “Search conversations…”. Select Expand replay to hide the charts and see more rows.
Open a chat to replay it step by step: every message, tool call, query and result. Subagent runs can be opened from their cards.
Review feedback
Section titled “Review feedback”Filter Votes by Upvotes or Downvotes to review rated answers. Admins also get a notification for each rating, with a Review in replay link that opens the chat here.
A bad rating usually points to missing or wrong context. Turn each one into a test and a context fix. See Context engineering.
Budgets
Section titled “Budgets”Set spending limits in Settings › Budget. See Models › Budgets.