Billing for the observability capability of ACK

This topic describes the observability capability of Container Service of Kubernetes (ACK) and the billing method for the observability capability.

Billing for Managed Service for Prometheus

If you want to use Managed Service for Prometheus to collect monitoring data, you must select and enable Cluster Monitoring. Cluster Monitoring of Managed Service for Prometheus includes ACK Cluster Monitoring Basic Edition and ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition. The following section describes the billing methods of the two editions.

Important

Only ACK Pro clusters support ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition. For other types of clusters, ACK Cluster Monitoring Basic Edition is used by default. ACK is gradually adding support for ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition for other types of clusters.

Category	ACK Cluster Monitoring Basic Edition	ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition
Billing of basic metrics	When you create a cluster, the basic monitoring metrics that are enabled by default are provided free of charge. If you modify the default settings, additional fees are generated.	When you create a cluster, the enabled basic metrics are billed based on the number of nodes by default. If you modify the default settings, additional fees are generated. For more information, see Billing rules.
Billing of custom metrics	You are charged for custom metrics that are reported by plug-ins that are installed in your cluster, such as ack-net-exporter, ack-sysom-monitor, migrate-controller, Knative, ack-arena, and ack-fluid. All metrics except basic metrics are classified as custom metrics. You are charged for custom metrics based on the reported data and storage usage. For more information, see Billing.
Billing of cluster resources	Provides non-managed agents. By default, each agent occupies 3 CPU cores and 4 GB of memory. You need to manually manage the agents. Additional resource consumption costs are generated.	Managed agents are used to implement monitoring, and no additional resource fees are generated.

Compared with ACK Cluster Monitoring Basic Edition ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition provides various built-in Grafana monitoring dashboards, default alert rules for components of ACK, and Remote Write and EventBridge-based data delivery capabilities. For more information about the benefits of ACK Cluster Monitoring Pro Edition, see Comparison of features and billing rules for the Basic Edition and Pro Edition.

For more information about how to check whether the reported metrics are basic metrics, see Container cluster basic metrics. All metrics that are not included in the basic metrics are considered custom metrics. The feature is continuously updated. Therefore, new custom metrics are progressively added.

Billing for ARMS Application Monitoring

If Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) is enabled for applications deployed in ACK clusters , such as Java Application Monitoring, Python Application Monitoring, and Go Application Monitoring, fees are generated. The fees are billed based on the billing item of ARMS Application Monitoring. For more information, see Billing.

Billing for Simple Log Service

You are charged when you use Simple Log Service to process logs, such as audit logs, control plane logs, and container logs (also known as pod logs), in ACK clusters. The generated fees are calculated based on the usage and are billed directly by Simple Log Service. For more information, see Billing overview.

Observability capability of clusters

The following table describes the features that use the cluster observability capability and the components that report the generated observability data.

Note

For more information about how to check whether the metrics collected by Managed Service for Prometheus are basic metrics, see Container cluster basic metrics. If the metrics are not listed in the Container cluster basic metrics topic, the metrics are custom metrics.

Module	Feature (Observable)	Alibaba Cloud observability service	Data reporting component
Log monitoring of the control plane	Collect logs of control plane components in ACK managed clusters	Simple Log Service	ACK managed clusters
CoreDNS log monitoring	Collect and analyze CoreDNS logs	Simple Log Service	CoreDNS
Monitoring for the audit logs feature of API servers	Work with cluster auditing Collect logs of control plane components in ACK managed clusters	Simple Log Service	API Server
Container auditing	Use container auditing Collect logs of control plane components in ACK managed clusters	Simple Log Service	ack-advanced-audit
Container log monitoring	Collect text logs from Kubernetes containers in DaemonSet mode Collect logs of control plane components in ACK managed clusters	Simple Log Service	Step 1: Install Logtail
Application Monitoring	Java Application Monitoring	ARMS	ack-onepilot
	Python Application Monitoring	ARMS	ack-onepilot
	Go Application Monitoring	ARMS	ack-onepilot
Control plane component monitoring	View control plane component dashboards in ACK Pro clusters	Managed Service for Prometheus	API Server
		Managed Service for Prometheus	kube-controller-manager
		Managed Service for Prometheus	cloud-controller-manager
		Managed Service for Prometheus	kube-scheduler
		Managed Service for Prometheus	etcd
Network monitoring	Use Managed Service for Prometheus to improve the observability of the NGINX Ingress controller	Managed Service for Prometheus	Nginx Ingress Controller
Network monitoring	CoreDNS monitoring	Managed Service for Prometheus	CoreDNS
Storage	Container storage monitoring overview	Managed Service for Prometheus	csi-plugin storage-operator


GPU	GPU monitoring	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-gpu-exporter
Cluster topology monitoring	Cluster topology monitoring	What is Application Monitoring eBPF Edition?	ack-arms-cmonitor
Cluster basic monitoring	Managed Service for Prometheus	Managed Service for Prometheus	The Prometheus agent is provided by Managed Service for Prometheus. The cluster basic monitoring data consists of the following data: The status data of the Kubernetes object is provided by the kube-state-metrics component. The basic monitoring data of the cluster nodes is provided by the node-exporter component. The basic container monitoring data from kubelet at the container engine layer of each node in the cluster and the ACK Virtual Node component.
		Managed Service for Prometheus
		Managed Service for Prometheus
Cost management suite	Enable cost insights	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-cost-exporter
Cost management suite	Resource profiling	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-koordinator (FKA ack-slo-manager)
Scheduling	QoS aware scheduling	Managed Service for Prometheus
Scheduling	Best practices for hybrid deployment	Managed Service for Prometheus
Events and alerts monitoring	Event monitoring	Simple Log Service	ack-node-problem-detector
Events and alerts monitoring	Alert management	Simple Log Service Managed Service for Prometheus CloudMonitor	alicloud-monitor-controller
Kernel-level container monitoring	Kernel-level container monitoring based on SysOM	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-sysom-monitor
Kernel-level container monitoring	Use SysOM to locate container memory issues	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-sysom-monitor
Use the network diagnostics feature	Network diagnosis	Managed Service for Prometheus	net-exporter
Backup center	Use Managed Service for Prometheus to monitor the backup center and configure alerting	Managed Service for Prometheus	migrate-controller
Knative	View the Knative monitoring dashboard	Managed Service for Prometheus	Knative
Auto scaling	Horizontal pod scaling based on Managed Service for Prometheus metrics	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-alibaba-cloud-metrics-adapte
Auto scaling	Enable Managed Service for Prometheus for AHPA	Managed Service for Prometheus	AHPA controller
Cloud-native AI suite	Configure the Arena client	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-arena
Cloud-native AI suite	Overview of Fluid	Managed Service for Prometheus	ack-fluid