Cloud Monitor:Pay-as-you-go

Billing rule

Description

Scenarios

Use pay-as-you-go when the free quota does not meet your needs.

Billing cycle

Bills are generated daily and fees are deducted from your account.

Billable items

• Alert text messages

  Alert notifications sent by text message when a metric triggers an alert rule.

• Alert phone calls

  Alert notifications sent by phone call when a metric triggers an alert rule.

  Note

  Starting from April 27, 2024, you are not charged for unanswered phone calls.

• API calls to query monitoring data

  Calls to DescribeMetricLast, DescribeMetricList, DescribeMetricData, and DescribeMetricTop. Console calls are excluded. After the free quota is used up, these API calls are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

• Intelligent thresholds

  Billed per hour of service for each metric time series.

  CloudMonitor provides standard-precision (minute-level metrics) intelligent threshold services. The unit price is USD 0.0004 per hour for one metric time series.

  • The number of time series for a metric equals the number of unique and meaningful combinations of all its dimensions.

  • Service duration is measured in hourly cycles. If an intelligent threshold is generated for a metric time series at any point within a one-hour cycle, it counts as one hour of service.

Pricing

• Alert text messages: The free quota is 1,000 messages per month. Usage beyond the free quota is charged at USD 0.0064 per message.

• Alert phone calls: USD 0.0212 per call.

• API calls to query monitoring data: The free quota is 1 million calls per month. Usage beyond the free quota is charged at USD 0.017 per 10,000 calls.

• Intelligent thresholds: USD 0.0004 per hour for one metric time series.

Deduction principle

The free quota is consumed first. Usage beyond the free quota is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Free quota.

Billing examples

• Alert text messages

  Assume that you used 1,200 alert text messages on August 20, 2023. The fee is calculated as follows:

  Fee = (1,200 - 1,000) messages × USD 0.0064/message = USD 1.28

• Emergency contact number

  Assume that you used 300 alert phone calls on August 20, 2023. The fee is calculated as follows:

  Fee = 300 calls × USD 0.0212/call = USD 6.36

• API calls to query monitoring data

  Assume that you made 1.2 million API calls to query monitoring data on August 25, 2023. The fee is calculated as follows:

  Fee = (1,200,000 - 1,000,000) calls × (USD 0.017 / 10,000 calls) = USD 0.34

• Intelligent thresholds

  • Assume that you set an intelligent threshold alert rule for the CPU utilization (CPUUtilization) of an ECS instance. This alert rule corresponds to one metric time series. The fee for running this alert rule for 30 days is calculated as follows:

    Fee = 1 metric time series × 24 hours × 30 days × USD 0.0004 = USD 0.288

  • Assume that an ECS instance has two disks. You set an intelligent threshold alert rule for the disk usage (diskusage_used) of all disks on this ECS instance. This alert rule corresponds to two metric time series. The fee for running this alert rule for 30 days is calculated as follows:

    Fee = 2 metric time series × 24 hours × 30 days × USD 0.0004 = USD 0.576