A resource plan is a type of subscription billing method that offers certain discounts. You can purchase resource plans based on your business requirements. After you activate CloudMonitor Basic (pay-as-you-go) and purchase resource plans, the resource plans are used to offset the fees of CloudMonitor Basic (pay-as-you-go) if the free resource quotas are used up.
Before you can purchase resource plans, you must activate CloudMonitor Basic (pay-as-you-go).
CloudMonitor Basic will support resource plans from 10:00:00 (UTC+8) on September 26, 2024. For more information, see Announcement on the changes in billing of CloudMonitor Basic.
Purchase resource plans
To save costs, we recommend that you purchase resource plans based on your business requirements. The following table describes the resource plans of CloudMonitor Basic.
Resource plan name | Buy page | Billing example |
Resource plan of alert text messages |
| Assume that you have activated CloudMonitor Basic (pay-as-you-go). You used 600 alert text messages at 13:00:00 on June 1, 2023, purchased a resource plan that provides 10,000 alert text messages, and then used 5,000 alert text messages. The following items show the remaining quotas: Remaining free quota before you purchased the resource plan = (1,000 - 600) = 400 Remaining quota of the resource plan = 10,000 - (5,000 - 400) = 5,400 Note The free quota of alert text messages is 1,000 per month. |
Resource plan of alert phone calls |
| Assume that you have activated CloudMonitor Basic (pay-as-you-go). You purchased a resource plan that provides 5,000 alert phone calls on June 1, 2023, and then used 5,500 alert phone calls. The quota provided by the resource plan is used up, and the remaining 500 alert phone calls are billed based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. |
Offset rules of resource plans
The following table describe the offset rules of the resource plans.
Item | Description |
Validity period | The validity period of resource plans is six months. An expired resource plan can no longer be used, and the validity period cannot be extended. |
Effective time | A resource plan immediately takes effect after you purchase the resource plan. |
Offset order | You can purchase multiple resource plans. Resource plans of the same type are used in the following order:
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View the details of resource plans
After you purchase resource plans, you can check the usage of the resource plans at any time, facilitating proper use of resource plans.
Log on to the CloudMonitor console.
In the top navigation bar, click Expenses.
In the left-side navigation pane of the Expenses and Costs page, click Manage Reserved Instances.
Select Resource Packages for Resource Type and click the Details tab.
You can view the usage of resource plans.