Glean Cost Tuning Skill

Glean Cost Tuning

Overview

Glean pricing scales with indexed content volume and user count. Reduce costs by indexing only relevant content, pruning stale data, and using incremental indexing.

Cost Reduction Strategies

| Strategy | Savings | Implementation | |----------|---------|---------------| | Filter irrelevant content | 20-40% | Skip drafts, templates, archived pages | | Prune stale documents | 10-20% | Delete docs not updated in 12+ months | | Use incremental indexing | Compute savings | Index only changed docs, not full corpus | | Consolidate datasources | Admin savings | Fewer connectors to maintain | | Set content size limits | Storage savings | Truncate body to ~50KB per doc |

Content Filtering Example

function shouldIndex(doc: SourceDocument): boolean {
  if (doc.status === 'draft' || doc.status === 'archived') return false;
  if (doc.updatedAt < oneYearAgo) return false;
  if (doc.title.startsWith('[Template]')) return false;
  if (doc.content.length < 50) return false;  // Skip near-empty pages
  return true;
}

const filtered = allDocs.filter(shouldIndex);
// Typically reduces corpus by 30-50%

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