# Monitor Secrets Manager costs
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You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor estimated AWS Secrets Manager charges. For more information, see [Creating a billing alarm to monitor your estimated AWS charges](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html) in the *CloudWatch User Guide*.

Another option for monitoring your costs is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. For more information, see [Detecting unusual spend with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/manage-ad.html) in the *AWS Cost Management User Guide*.

For information about monitoring your Secrets Manager usage, see [Monitor AWS Secrets Manager with Amazon CloudWatch](monitoring-cloudwatch.md) and [Log AWS Secrets Manager events with AWS CloudTrail](monitoring-cloudtrail.md).

For information about AWS Secrets Manager pricing, see [Pricing](intro.md#asm_pricing).