Connect your MAU stream to ZopNight Unit Economics with CSV upload, Pull API, or Push API. Get cost per MAU on the dashboard within an hour.
This is the practical version, the one you can follow in a single sitting. It starts read-only, touches no production resource by default, and every step is reversible, so there is no point at which you are committed to something you cannot undo. Budget about 45 minutes. Before you start you will want: A ZopNight account on a plan that includes Unit Economics; A monthly MAU number from your product analytics platform; At least one cloud account connected.
The steps
- Pick the ingestion mode.
- Define the metric.
- Upload the first MAU snapshot.
- Add real-time events (optional).
- Confirm the metric on the dashboard.
- Rank recommendations by impact.
Why this is safe to do today
The reason this is a low-stakes change is that nothing here is destructive. Scheduling stops and starts resources; it never deletes them, and your data persists across a stop exactly as it does across a normal reboot. Production is excluded by default, actions run in dependency order, and every state change is logged with what triggered it.
If you want the fuller context behind this task, the FinOps guide covers where it fits, and the AWS EC2 scheduling page shows the same loop applied to a specific resource.
Getting started
Getting started is intentionally low-stakes:
- Connect your cloud provider with a read-only role. Nothing is scheduled or changed at this stage.
- Let ZopNight discover your non-production resources and review exactly what it found, filtered by account, region, and status.
- Create a schedule in your timezone and attach the non-production resources or groups you want it to cover.
- Watch the first cycle run, with Slack, Teams, or Google Chat notifications on every start, stop, and failure, then layer in idle cleanup and guided rightsizing.
Production stays excluded by default throughout, and because discovery and recommendations are read-only, you can prove the value before you enable a single action.
Questions we get a lot.
If yours isn't here, email us and we'll answer directly.
Do I need a real-time pipeline?
No. Cost per MAU is naturally a monthly metric. CSV upload works fine for most teams. Real-time pipelines are valuable when you need cost per request or cost per signup at sub-hour cadence.
Can I track multiple unit metrics at once?
Yes. Cost per MAU, cost per order, cost per request, and cost per signup ship as built-in metrics. Custom metrics are also supported per organization.