Monitoring usage

VM usage is reported in the workspace portal under the virtual machine usage tab (opens in a new tab). In this view, you can find information about the workspace credit spend during the current cycle as well as logs from each session.

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There are two different ways to wake up a VM:

• Through user interaction, such as spinning up a repository branch in the editor.
• Through automated jobs like making an HTTP wake-up call to start up a preview.

These job-related starts usually add up to a few minutes of VM time in a billing cycle. They are accounted for in the VM usage logs in the workspace portal.

CodeSandbox automatically uses hibernation timeouts to conserve VM use. If a VM has not had any interactivity for 30 minutes, it will hibernate until woken up again.

[Credits](/content/docs/learn/credit-usage/credits "Credits"/index.html) [Controlling usage](/content/docs/learn/credit-usage/controlling-usage "Controlling usage"/index.html)