Application Monitoring Basic Edition supports the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged based on your resource usage. Bills are generated and fees are deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account at the end of each billing cycle. This topic describes the billable items of the pay-as-you-go billing method for Application Monitoring Basic Edition.
Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition have stopped activation, and will no longer provide technical support from March 31, 2024. For more information, see [Billing changes] Discontinuation of Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition activation.
The prices provided in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices on the buy page shall prevail.
Billable items
Traces
You can configure sampling rules for traces and pay by traffic. For information about how to configure sampling rules, see Customize application settings.
To change the storage duration, perform the following steps: Log on to the Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose . On the Storage Period Settings tab, change the storage duration.
Usage notes:
Each span corresponds to a request. Each trace consists of one or more spans. You are charged based on the number of spans.
All requests with the same trace ID belong to the corresponding trace. Each trace consists of up to 10 spans. The excess spans of a trace are billed one-tenth the fee of the trace.
Billing of Application Monitoring in Alibaba Cloud public cloud
Free quotas
Application Monitoring Basic Edition provides a free quota for trace data.
By default, for each API request sent from your Alibaba Cloud account, each agent samples the first trace and stores it free of charge for one day.
Chinese mainland
Billable item | Unit price |
Traces | USD 0.0031 per one million spans per day |
China (Hong Kong) and other regions outside the Chinese mainland
Billable item | Unit price |
Traces | USD 0.0043 per one million spans per day |
Billing cycle
The billing cycle of ARMS is one day. ARMS generates the bills of the previous day at 00:00 every day. Generally, bills are generated before 08:00. If your Alibaba Cloud account has sufficient balance, the system deducts fees from the balance. You can view bills in the Expenses and Costs console and view the observable data volume in the ARMS console. For more information, see Bills and resource usage.
Bills may be generated later than expected.
Features
For information about the features supported by the Basic Edition, see Edition comparison.
You can upgrade the Basic Edition to the Pro Edition. After the upgrade, you are charged based on the billing rules of the Pro Edition. For information about the billing of the Pro Edition, see Pro Edition.
Impact of overdue payments on resources
For information about the impact of overdue payments in pay-as-you-go scenarios, see Overdue payments.
View your bills and resource usage
To view bills and consumption details, log on to the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see Bills and resource usage.
To view the resource usage, perform the following steps: Log on to the ARMS console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose . For more information, see Bills and resource usage.