# Cost and latency dashboard ops brief

Use this brief to connect AI runtime economics to user-visible quality. Cost and latency should be reviewed by workflow, route, provider, quality score, fallback rate, and business outcome.

## Review sections

- Traffic mix by provider, model, route, tenant, and region.
- Cost per successful task and budget drift.
- Latency, timeout, retry, fallback, and queue behavior.
- Quality correlation by route and release.
- Decision to tune, degrade, switch provider, renegotiate, or re-architect.