This topic provides billing examples of Simple Log Service.
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-by-feature
Example 1
You use a server that generates 10 MB of log data per day and you want to use Simple Log Service to analyze the log data and run a Java program to subscribe to log processing events. One shard is used, and the data retention period is one day. You are not charged for using Simple Log Service. In this example, the compression ratio is 5:1. The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Monthly amount | Monthly fee |
Active shards | If you create only one Logstore and use only one shard, the number of active shards in the current month is 31 shard days. | 31 shard days | Free |
Read and write traffic |
| 124 MB | Free |
Storage space occupied by log data |
| 372 MB | Free |
Index traffic of log data | If you enable the full-text indexing feature, 10 MB of index traffic is generated per day, and the index traffic for the current month is 310 MB. | 310 MB | Free |
Read and write operations | The number of times that log data is uploaded to Simple Log Service is counted. | Less than 1 million read and write operations | Free |
Example 2
Website A receives 100 million requests per day. Simple Log Service generates a log of 200 bytes for each request. The total size of logs that are generated per day is approximately 18.6 GB. Website A uploads the logs to Simple Log Service for analysis. Two shards are used, and the data retention period is three days. In this example, the compression ratio is 5:1, and no free quota is provided.
The fee is USD 2.171985 per day. The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Daily amount | Unit price | Daily fee |
Read and write traffic | The traffic that is generated by uploading log data to Simple Log Service is 3.72 GB. This value is calculated by using the following formula: 18.6 GB × 20%. | 3.72 GB | USD 0.045 per GB-day | USD 0.1674 |
Index traffic of log data | If you enable the full-text indexing feature, 20 GB of index traffic is generated per day. From the total amount, 1.4 GB of index traffic is generated for reserved fields. | 20 GB | USD 0.0875 per GB-day | USD 1.75 |
Storage space occupied by log data |
| 71.16 GB | USD 0.002875 per GB-day | USD 0.204585 |
Read and write operations | The number of times that log data is uploaded to Simple Log Service is counted. The value is approximately 1 million. | 1 million read and write operations | USD 0.03 per million operations per day | USD 0.03 |
Active shards | The peak traffic is 6 MB/s, which requires two shards. | 2 | USD 0.01 per shard-day | USD 0.02 |
Example 3
Application B generates 10 GB of time series data per day. The application sends 200,000 requests to upload the data to Simple Log Service. Two shards are used, and the data retention period is three days. In this example, the compression ratio is 5:1, and no free quota is provided.
The fee is USD 0.4054 per day. The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Daily amount | Unit price | Daily fee |
Read and write traffic | The traffic that is generated by uploading time series data to Simple Log Service is 2 GB. This value is calculated by using the following formula: 10 GB × 20%. | 2 GB | USD 0.045 per GB-day | USD 0.09 |
Index traffic of time series data | Simple Log Service creates indexes for all fields. | 10 GB | USD 0.02721 per GB-day | USD 0.2721 |
Storage space occupied by time series data |
| 36 GB | USD 0.00048 per GB-day | USD 0.0173 |
Active shards | The peak traffic is 6 MB/s, which requires two shards. | 2 | USD 0.01 per shard-day | USD 0.02 |
Read and write operations | The number of times that time series data is uploaded to Simple Log Service is counted. The value is approximately 200,000. | 200,000 read and write operations | USD 0.03 per million operations per day | USD 0.006 |
Example 4
Enterprise A stores 40 billion logs in Simple Log Service. Before the enterprise queries and analyzes the logs, the enterprise enables the Dedicated SQL feature. The following table describes the billing details when the enterprise uses the Dedicated SQL feature to perform a query and analysis operation.
In this example, only the Dedicated SQL billable item is described.
Billable item | Description | CPU time per operation | Unit price | Fee per operation |
Dedicated SQL | The CPU time that is consumed when you use the Dedicated SQL feature to perform a query and analysis operation is 3.6 seconds. For more information about how to obtain the CPU time, see How do I obtain the amount of CPU time that I use? | 3.6 seconds/3600 = 0.001 hour | USD 0.05174 per core hour | USD 0.00005174 |
Pay-by-ingested-data
Example 1
Customer A writes 10 TB of data to Simple Log Service per day, stores the data in Simple Log Service for 30 days, and enables features such as data transformation, query and analysis, Scheduled SQL, intelligent alerting, and data shipping. The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Daily amount | Unit price | Daily fee |
Ingested data volume (raw data) | When data is uploaded to Simple Log Service, the ingested data volume is 10 TB. | 10 TB | USD 0.5442 per GB | USD 544.2 |
Data storage | The data retention period is 30 days. | In pay-by-ingested-data billing mode, you are not charged for data storage within 30 days after the data is written to Simple Log Service. |
| USD 0 |
Example 2
Customer B writes 10 TB of data to Simple Log Service per day with a compression ratio of 2:1, stores the data in Simple Log Service for 31 days, and enables features such as data transformation, query and analysis, Scheduled SQL, intelligent alerting, and data shipping. Data that is stored longer than 30 days is moved to the IA storage tier. The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Daily amount | Unit price | Daily fee |
Ingested data volume (raw data) | When data is uploaded to Simple Log Service, the ingested data volume is 10 TB. | 10 TB | USD 0.5442 per GB | USD 544.2 |
Data storage | The data retention period is 31 days, and 5 TB of data is stored in Simple Log Service. | In pay-by-ingested-data billing mode, you are not charged for data storage within 30 days after the data is written to Simple Log Service. On the 31st day, you are charged for the 5 TB of data that is moved to the IA storage tier. | IA storage: USD 0.000958 per GB-day | USD 3.40125 |
Example 3
Customer C generates 1 TB of log data per day and wants to purchase a log management platform. The customer needs to query and analyze all fields, transform data to cleanse error logs, store data for 30 days to trace issues, and ship data to MaxCompute for further data mining in batch processing mode.
The following list describes the comparison between the pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes:
In pay-by-feature billing mode, the fee is USD 4550.9 per month.
In pay-by-ingested-data billing mode, the fee is USD 1671.8 per month.
Requirement | Pay-by-ingested-data (month) | Pay-by-feature (month) |
Write 1 TB of data per day | USD 1671.8 | USD 97.956 |
Query and analyze logs | USD 0 | USD 1428.5 |
Store logs for 30 days | USD 0 | USD 1595.9 |
Transform data to cleanse error logs (1 TB per day) | USD 0 | USD 612.225 |
Ship data to MaxCompute for further analysis (1 TB per day) | USD 0 | USD 816.3 |
Resource plan
A customer uses two shards to read data from and write data to Simple Log Service each day. The read and write traffic is 100 GB per day, the index traffic is 400 GB per day, and the storage usage of log data is 10,000 GB per day. The following tables describe the billing details.
Billable item | Description |
Read and write traffic | 100 GB × USD 0.045/GB = USD 4.5 |
Index traffic of log data | 400 GB × USD 0.0875/GB = USD 35 |
Storage space occupied by log data | 10000 GB × USD 0.002875 per GB-day = USD 28.75 |
Active shards | 2 shards × USD 0.01 = USD 0.02 Note If you set the Shards parameter to 2 when you create a Logstore, two shards are used each day. If a calendar month comprises 30 days, the monthly usage is 60 shard days. |
The actual prices of resource plans in the Simple Log Service console shall prevail.
Billing method | Pay-as-you-go | Resource plan (1-year subscription) | Cost saving |
Monthly fee | Monthly fee = (USD 4.5 + USD 35 + USD 28.75 + USD 0.02) × 30 days = USD 2,048.1 | You can purchase five 1-year subscription resource plans: two with 1,000 CUs per month and three with 20 CUs per month. The monthly fee is calculated by using the following formula: Monthly fee = 2 × USD 8,520/12 months + 3 × USD 180/12 months = USD 1,465 | If you purchase 1-year subscription resource plans, you can reduce costs by USD 583.1 per month. Formula: USD 2,048.1 - USD 1,465 = USD 583.1. |
Yearly fee | Yearly fee = (USD 4.5 + USD 35 + USD 28.75 + USD 0.02) × 30 days × 12 months = USD 24,577.2 | You can purchase five 1-year subscription resource plans: two with 1,000 CUs per month and three with 20 CUs per month. The yearly fee is calculated by using the following formula: Yearly fee = 2 × USD 8,520 + 3 × USD 180 = USD 17,580 | If you purchase 1-year subscription resource plans, you can reduce costs by USD 6,997.2 per year. Formula: USD 24,577.2 - USD 17,580 = USD 6,997.2. |