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Cloud Monitor:Billing of the cloud monitoring exporter feature

Last Updated:Sep 21, 2026

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring is a pay-as-you-go service that requires separate activation. Activation is free, and you are charged based on actual usage. The service includes dashboards, resource usage reports, second-level monitoring, and real-time data exporting.

Billing

The following table describes the billing of the cloud monitoring exporter feature.

Item

Description

Scenarios

Obtain the monitoring data of Alibaba Cloud services in real time.

Billing cycle

Bills are generated on a daily basis.

Billing formula

Fee for the cloud monitoring exporter feature = Number of data points × Unit price of a data point

Note

A data point represents the value of a metric at a specific point in time.

  • The value of the CPU utilization metric whose name is CPUUtilization for an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance at a specific point in time is equivalent to one data point.

  • The value of the disk usage metric whose name is diskusage_used for an ECS instance at a specific point in time is equivalent to one data point.

  • If you configure two listeners for a Server Load Balancer (SLB) instance, the value of the TCP active connection metric whose name is ActiveConnection for the two listeners at a specific point in time is equivalent to two data points.

Pricing

For more information, see Billing rules for data export.

Billing example

For example, you use the cloud monitoring exporter feature to collect 280,000,000 data points within a day. The fee of the day is calculated by using the following formula:

Fee = 20,000 × USD 0.000865 + (28,000 - 20,000) × USD 0.000633 = USD 22.364

Important

These examples are for reference only. Actual fees are based on the prices shown on the Alibaba Cloud purchase page.

Pricing

The following table describes the tiered pricing based on the number of collected data points per day.

Number of data points (× 10,000)

Unit price (USD)

0 to 20,000 (except 0)

0.000865

20,000 to 50,000 (except 20,000)

0.000633

50,000 to 100,000 (except 50,000)

0.000479

Greater than 100,000

0.000324