This topic introduces ack-cost-exporter and describes the usage notes and release notes for the component.
Introduction
The cost analysis feature is implemented by using the following methods:
ack-cost-exporter submits the billing data of a cluster for cost analysis. The billing data includes the costs, real-time prices, billing methods, discounts, coupons, and vouchers for cloud resources.
ack-arms-prometheus submits the resource usage data of a cluster.
ack-arms-prometheus performs cost analysis based on the billing data and the resource usage data.
ack-cost-exporter consists of alibaba-cloud-price-exporter and alibaba-cloud-billing-exporter:
alibaba-cloud-price-exporter
Periodically obtains the instance types and instance prices in a Kubernetes cluster, and converts these details into Prometheus metrics.
Supports public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud scenarios.
Supports multiple billing methods, such as subscription, pay-as-you-go, and preemptible instances.
alibaba-cloud-billing-exporter
Regularly obtains the bills of a cluster and converts them into Prometheus metrics.
Usage notes
For more information about how to use ack-cost-exporter, see Enable cost insights.
Release notes
December 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.15 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.2.6-a577df8-aliyun | 2023-12-15 | The logic for handling exceptions due to the unregistered price of an elastic container instance is optimized. | No impact on workloads |
July 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.14 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.2.5-d7425f5-aliyun | 2023-07-21 |
| No impact on workloads |
June 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.13 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.2.4-ae2baf5-aliyun | 2023-06-27 |
| No impact on workloads |
v1.0.12 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.2.3-a312a32-aliyun | 2023-06-09 | The logic for inquiring the prices of nodes in large clusters is optimized to improve data stability. | No impact on workloads |
March 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.10 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.2.1-0378c52-aliyun | 2023-03-10 | Registered clusters are supported. | No impact on workloads |
November 2022
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.9 | registry-vpc.{{.Region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alibaba-cloud-price-exporter:v0.1.9-71eaa43-aliyun | 2022-11-25 |
| Go to the Cost Insights page in the ACK console again. The console prompts you to perform authorizations and update ack-cost-exporter. After you update ack-cost-exporter, the historical cost analysis data provided by the earlier version of ack-cost-exporter is retained. |
August 2022
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.0.7 |
| 2022-08-05 |
| No impact on workloads |
May 2021
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v0.1.0 |
| 2021-05-11 |
| No impact on workloads |