Managed Service for Prometheus provides container monitoring in two editions: Container Monitoring Basic Edition and Container Monitoring Pro Edition. Container monitoring fees include cluster scale fees and Prometheus instance fees. This topic describes the billing methods, billable items, pricing, and activation details.
Supported cluster types
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ACK Pro cluster
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ACK Lingjun cluster
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ACK Dedicated cluster
Billing method
Only the pay-as-you-go billing method is supported. Prepaid options such as resource plans and subscriptions are not available.
Basic Edition vs. Pro Edition
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Item |
Basic Edition |
Pro Edition |
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Retention period of basic container cluster metrics |
7 days |
90 days |
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Prometheus collector |
Unmanaged collection agent. |
Managed collection agent with a production-grade SLA of 99.95%. |
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Dashboard |
Includes basic built-in dashboards based on proprietary visualization components, not Grafana. |
Includes a rich set of built-in Grafana dashboards. |
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Alert |
No default alert rules. |
Default alert rules for various container service components. |
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Data export |
Provides standard open-source data export capabilities, including Remote Read and HTTP API. |
Additional capabilities including Remote Write and data delivery through EventBridge. |
Billable items
Container monitoring fees consist of two parts: cluster scale fees and Prometheus instance fees.
Pro Edition
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Billable item |
Description |
Billing method |
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Monitoring cluster scale fees |
OCU usage is based on the number of container cluster nodes, including virtual nodes. Every 10 nodes equal 1 OCU. Note
An Observability Capacity Unit (OCU) is a billing unit for Alibaba Cloud observability services. The price of an OCU is USD 0.023 per unit. |
Pay-as-you-go: Daily cluster scale fee = Total hourly OCUs × OCU unit price Note
Hourly OCU count = CEILING(Maximum number of nodes during the hour / 10) |
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Prometheus instance fees |
For more information, see Billing for Prometheus instances. |
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Basic Edition
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Billable item |
Description |
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Monitoring cluster scale fees |
Free of charge |
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Prometheus instance fees |
For more information, see Billing for Prometheus instances. |
Billing cycle
The cluster scale monitoring fee for Container Monitoring Pro Edition is calculated hourly. After 00:00, Managed Service for Prometheus determines the maximum number of cluster nodes per hour for the previous day, calculates the hourly OCU count, and sums all hourly OCU counts to obtain the total daily OCU amount. The daily container cluster scale monitoring fee equals the total OCU amount multiplied by the OCU unit price. For more information about Prometheus instance billing cycles, see Prometheus instance billing.
Pricing
Monitoring cluster scale fees
Container Monitoring Pro Edition uses pay-as-you-go billing, which starts automatically when you activate or upgrade the service. Fees are based on the number of nodes, calculated in OCUs.
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Edition |
Price |
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Container Monitoring Pro Edition |
Every 10 container cluster nodes are counted as 1 OCU. Clusters with fewer than 10 nodes are counted as 1 OCU. |
OCU pricing
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Billable item |
Price (USD) - Mainland China |
Price (USD) - Other regions |
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OCU |
0.023 |
0.033 |
Billing examples
Activate the service
Container Monitoring Pro Edition requires Managed Service for Prometheus. You must first activate Managed Service for Prometheus (billed by data write volume Activate or by reported data volume Activate), and then activate Container Monitoring Pro Edition.
To upgrade from Container Monitoring Basic Edition to Container Monitoring Pro Edition, see Use Container Monitoring Pro Edition.
View bills and usage
You can view overall spending for Container Monitoring Pro Edition in Expenses and Costs. For detailed instructions, see Query bills.
On the Billing Details page, on the Detailed Bill tab, set the Product Detail filter to Container Monitoring Pro Edition - pay-as-you-go. You can then view the billable item Observability Capacity Pricing (Billable Item Code: ocu).