Application Monitoring Pro Edition supports the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged based on actual usage, with fees billed each cycle and automatically deducted from your Alibaba Cloud account. This topic describes the billable items and pricing details for the pay-as-you-go method.
The prices provided in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billable items
The Pro Edition is billed based on Agent × Hour. This unified billing unit does not distinguish between traces and metrics.
Usage
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An agent can monitor one application instance, such as a Tomcat instance or a Java process. One application instance consumes 24 Agent × Hour daily.
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By default, trace data is stored for 30 days, and metric data is stored for 90 days.
Pricing
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Unit |
Chinese mainland |
China (Hong Kong) |
Other regions |
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Agent × Hour |
USD 0.0414 |
USD 0.0580 |
USD 0.0580 |
Billing cycle
The ARMS billing cycle is one day. ARMS calculates the resource consumption of the previous day, starting at 00:00 on the current day. Bills are typically generated before 08:00 on the settlement day. After a bill is generated, the system automatically deducts the amount from your account balance if the balance is sufficient. You can view your bills on the Expenses and Costs page and check your resource consumption in the ARMS console. For more information, see Resource usage and bills.
Bill generation may be delayed. The actual time a bill is generated may vary.
Promotions
A 50% discount is available for applications deployed in Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters. This promotion started on February 10, 2020 and is subject to change. For more information, see How is the preferential pricing calculated?.
Features
For a detailed comparison of Pro Edition features, see Editions and features.
The Pro Edition has an average daily data reporting limit of 0.7 GB per Agent × Hour. This quota applies at the Alibaba Cloud account level. For example, if your daily consumption is 24 Agent × Hour, your total data reporting quota for that day is 16.8 GB. For the policy on exceeding this quota, see Notice on Policy Change for Exceeding the Data Reporting Limit of Application Monitoring Pro Edition.
Activate the Pro Edition
To activate the Pro Edition, open the ARMS console. On the Resource Usage page, find the Application Monitoring row and click Activate Pro Edition in the Actions column.