Estimate savings

Previous value: -"forecast mode: VOLUME BUDGET — keep monthly ingest toward the destination at or under this many GB/mo. BYTE accounting: tier_down keeps every byte in the destination, so it cannot serve this target and is excluded from the ladder (compact only where it lands on the billed wire, then offload with the retriever, then lossy on allow_lossy). Mutually exclusive with target_percent, budget_usd_monthly, default_action, and proposed_config."New value: +"forecast mode: VOLUME BUDGET, keep monthly ingest toward the destination at or under this many GB/mo. BYTE accounting: tier_down keeps every byte in the destination, so it cannot serve this target and is excluded from the ladder (compact only where it lands on the billed wire, then offload with the retriever, then lossy on allow_lossy). Mutually exclusive with target_percent, budget_usd_monthly, default_action, and proposed_config."

Previous value: -"forecast mode: DOLLAR BUDGET — keep the (service-scoped or whole) destination bill at or under this $/mo. The ladder solver derives the reduction: max(0, bill - budget). Idempotent: already under budget returns an empty plan with the headroom stated. Mutually exclusive with target_percent, budget_gb_monthly, default_action, and proposed_config."New value: +"forecast mode: DOLLAR BUDGET, keep the (service-scoped or whole) destination bill at or under this $/mo. The ladder solver derives the reduction: max(0, bill - budget). Idempotent: already under budget returns an empty plan with the headroom stated. Mutually exclusive with target_percent, budget_gb_monthly, default_action, and proposed_config."

Added value: +{
+  "description": "forecast mode, compute-billed destinations only (ClickHouse): the service's current compute unit count. Turns the modeled compute saving in totals.compute_saving from a fraction into dollars.",
+  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+  "type": "number"
+}

Previous value: -"forecast mode, OPTIONAL: force one action onto every solver-selected pattern (a mode choice — \"cut 50% via drop\"). Hard constraint when present, subject to destination compatibility (compact is replaced by the destination canonical action when compact_mode=no-op). OMIT for the product default: the ladder solver picks the destination's keep-everything lever per pattern (compact -> tier_down -> offload-with-retriever), never lossy unless allow_lossy."New value: +"forecast mode, OPTIONAL: force one action onto every solver-selected pattern (a mode choice, \"cut 50% via drop\"). Hard constraint when present, subject to destination compatibility (compact is replaced by the destination canonical action when compact_mode=no-op). OMIT for the product default: the ladder solver picks the destination's keep-everything lever per pattern (compact -> tier_down -> offload-with-retriever), never lossy unless allow_lossy."

Previous value: -"How the customer RUNS the destination, which decides whether compaction is available at all: the expander is software they install (the l1es Elasticsearch/OpenSearch plugin, the 10x Splunk app), so a managed or serverless platform can carry compacted bytes but has nowhere to expand them. Set only from what the user actually said — absent means unknown, and an unknown deployment prices only the levers that hold either way. Irrelevant on destinations whose levers do not depend on it (Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure, Coralogix)."New value: +"How the customer RUNS the destination, which decides whether compaction is available at all: the expander is software they install (the l1es Elasticsearch/OpenSearch plugin, the 10x Splunk app), so a managed or serverless platform can carry compacted bytes but has nowhere to expand them. Set only from what the user actually said: absent means unknown, and an unknown deployment prices only the levers that hold either way. Irrelevant on destinations whose levers do not depend on it (Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure, Coralogix)."

Previous value: -"forecast and verify mode: override the destination list-price rate with the customer's contracted $/GB. When supplied, dollar projections use this rate and surface rate_source='customer_supplied'."New value: +"forecast and verify mode: override the destination default rate with the customer's contracted $/GB. When supplied, dollar projections use this rate and surface rate_source='customer_supplied'."

Previous value: -"Elasticsearch only: are compactable fields excluded from _source? Default false — the unpruned ratio band is used."New value: +"Elasticsearch only: are compactable fields excluded from _source? Default false: the unpruned ratio band is used."

Previous value: -"Ladder-plan path only: services pinned at pass — their patterns stay in the bill but are never planned, exactly like protected severities. The SOC-owned or compliance-bound slice of the estate, stated as a hard exclusion. Case-insensitive."New value: +"Ladder-plan path only: services pinned at pass, their patterns stay in the bill but are never planned, exactly like protected severities. The SOC-owned or compliance-bound slice of the estate, stated as a hard exclusion. Case-insensitive."

Previous value: -"Ladder-plan path only: message types LITERALLY referenced by a monitor, alert, saved search, or dashboard (found by the dependency scan) are EXCLUDED from the plan by default — they stay exactly as they are, and the plan re-solves around them. Pass true only after the user explicitly chooses to include them (the render shows what including them adds)."New value: +"Ladder-plan path only: message types LITERALLY referenced by a monitor, alert, saved search, or dashboard (found by the dependency scan) are EXCLUDED from the plan by default: they stay exactly as they are, and the plan re-solves around them. Pass true only after the user explicitly chooses to include them (the render shows what including them adds)."

Added value: +{
+  "description": "forecast mode, compute-billed destinations only (ClickHouse): the service's current monthly compute spend in dollars. Converted to units at the destination's unit price; ignored when current_compute_units is supplied.",
+  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
+  "type": "number"
+}

Previous value: -"Stable pattern identity (tenx_hash)."New value: +"Pattern hash (tenx_hash)."

Previous value: -"Whether the S3 retriever is installed (or the user has agreed to install it). Gates the offload rung of the ladder solver: without it, offloaded events would be unreachable, so the plan stops at the in-SIEM levers and the gap names \"install the retriever\" as the lossless remedy. Set from conversation; log10x_advise_retriever is the install path."New value: +"Whether the S3 retriever is installed (or the user has agreed to install it). Gates the offload rung of the ladder solver: without it, offloaded events would be unreachable, so the plan stops at the in-SIEM levers and the gap names \"install the retriever\" as the keep-everything remedy. Set from conversation; log10x_advise_retriever is the install path."

Previous value: -"Ladder-plan path only: pattern hashes the user EXPLICITLY unpinned from the severity floor (a warn-level retry storm they chose to act on). Bypasses severity protection for the listed hashes only; hard exclusions still win. Set only after the user names the type and chooses this — never inferred. The render flags these rows with their severity."New value: +"Ladder-plan path only: pattern hashes the user EXPLICITLY unpinned from the severity floor (a warn-level retry storm they chose to act on). Bypasses severity protection for the listed hashes only; hard exclusions still win. Set only after the user names the type and chooses this: never inferred. The render flags these rows with their severity."