All Products
Search

This Product

    CloudMonitor:Billing of the cloud monitoring exporter feature

    Document Center

    CloudMonitor:Billing of the cloud monitoring exporter feature

    Last Updated:Mar 22, 2024

    Before you can use Hybrid Cloud Monitoring, you must activate the service. You are charged for Hybrid Cloud Monitoring by using the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are not charged for activating Hybrid Cloud Monitoring. You are charged based on the actual resource usage. Hybrid Cloud Monitoring provides the following features: dashboard, resource usage report, high precision monitoring, and cloud monitoring exporter.

    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

    The prices in this topic are provided for reference only. The actual prices on the buy page prevail.

    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