This topic describes the impacts of overdue payments on pay-as-you-go resources.
Pay-as-you-go
Criteria
If your account balance is insufficient to deduct the fees of your pay-as-you-go resources and you do not add funds to your account on the current day, the payment is overdue.
Notifications
On the day an overdue payment occurs, Synthetic Monitoring sends you a notification by email, text message, or internal message. After you receive the notification, you must add funds to your Alibaba Cloud account to settle the overdue payment at the earliest opportunity.
Impact
If you have an overdue payment, Synthetic Monitoring automatically stops the corresponding synthetic monitoring task, but does not delete the task. After you settle the overdue payment, Synthetic Monitoring automatically resumes the synthetic monitoring task.
If the overdue payment is not settled 7 days after the overdue payment occurs, Synthetic Monitoring stops the synthetic monitoring task. If no data is detected when the retention period expires, the instance is released. The released instance and data cannot be recovered.
The metric data is retained for 15 days. The request data is retained for 30 days.
Synthetic Monitoring still receives the reported metric data within the 7 days during which the overdue payment is not settled. Therefore, if you add funds to your Alibaba Cloud account during this period, the instance and data will not be affected in any way.