Assets and billing of ACK serverless component logs - Simple Log Service

Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) integrates with Log Service, which allows you to deliver control plane component logs from an ACK Serverless Pro cluster to Log Service for querying and analysis. This topic describes the assets and billing for the control plane component logs of an ACK Serverless Pro cluster. It also explains how to enable this feature for your ACK Serverless Pro cluster in the ACK console and deliver the logs to Log Service.

Assets

Dedicated project and Logstores

Important

Do not delete the associated Log Service project and Logstores before you disable the component log feature. Otherwise, logs cannot be delivered to Log Service.
If you have previously enabled the pay-by-ingested-data mode, the system creates a dedicated Logstore that uses the pay-by-ingested-data mode by default. If you need to switch to the pay-by-feature mode, you can modify the Logstore configuration. For more information, see Manage Logstores.

If you select an existing project when enabling the control plane component log feature for your ACK Serverless Pro cluster, the system creates the following dedicated Logstores in the project.

If you choose to create a new project when enabling the control plane component log feature, the system creates a project named k8s-log-<cluster ID> in the same region as the ACK Serverless Pro cluster. The following Logstores are created in the project.

Logstore	Component	Description
`apiserver-<cluster ID>`	kube-apiserver	Stores logs for the kube-apiserver component. The kube-apiserver is a control plane component that exposes the Kubernetes API. For more information, see kube-apiserver.
`ccm-<cluster ID>`	Cloud Controller Manager	Stores logs for the Cloud Controller Manager component. The Cloud Controller Manager component integrates Kubernetes with Alibaba Cloud services, such as CLB and VPC. It manages features such as load balancing and cross-node communication. For more information, see Cloud Controller Manager.
`kcm-<cluster ID>`	kube-controller-manager	Stores logs for the kube-controller-manager component. The kube-controller-manager component is the control center of a Kubernetes cluster and runs the core control loops of the cluster. For more information, see kube-controller-manager.

Dedicated dashboard

This feature does not provide a dedicated dashboard. You can create a custom one to display query results. For more information, see Create a dashboard.

Billing

ACK does not charge you for collecting control plane component logs from an ACK Serverless Pro cluster.
If a Logstore uses the pay-by-feature mode, Log Service charges you for storage, read traffic, requests, data processing, and data shipping after Log Service receives the control plane component logs from an ACK Serverless Pro cluster. For more information, see Billable items of the pay-by-feature mode.
If a Logstore uses the pay-by-ingested-data mode, Log Service charges you based on the volume of raw data ingested and other factors after Log Service receives the control plane component logs from an ACK Serverless Pro cluster. For more information, see Billable items of the pay-by-ingested-data mode.

Enable ACK Serverless Pro cluster to Use Control Plane Component Logs

New cluster

Log on to the Container Service Management Console.
On the Clusters page, click Create Cluster.
On the Create Cluster page, go to the Component Configurations step, select Enable Log Service, and then select a destination project. For more information about other configurations, see Create an ACK Serverless Pro cluster.

Existing cluster

Log on to the Container Service Management Console.
On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click its name.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Operations > Log Center.
On the Control Plane Component Logs tab, select a destination project and click Enable Component Log Collection.

You can select an existing project or create a new one.

Related operations

Actions	Description
View logs	You can view logs in the ACK console or the Log Service console. For more information, see View control plane component logs.
Disable the log feature	On the Control Plane Component Logs tab, click Disable. Important After you disable the log feature, the system does not automatically delete the project or its existing logs. To avoid unnecessary charges, delete the corresponding project in the Log Service console. For more information, see Delete a project.

What to do next

After the control plane component logs of your ACK Serverless Pro cluster are delivered to Log Service, you can query, analyze, download, ship, process, and create alerts for them in Log Service. For more information, see Common operations on logs of Alibaba Cloud services.