Managed Service for Prometheus allows you to switch between the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods. This topic describes how to change the billing method.
View the billing method of an instance
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
On the Instances page, view the billing method of the Prometheus instance in the Billing Method column.
Change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription
You can change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription for Prometheus instances only in regions in the Chinese mainland on Alibaba Cloud public cloud. This feature is not supported outside the Chinese mainland.
To change the billing method of a Prometheus instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription, perform the following steps:
Log on to the ARMS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
On the Instances page, find the Prometheus instance and click Enable Subscription in the Actions column.
On the buy page, specify the capacity, storage duration, and subscription duration, read and select the check box to agree to Terms of Service, and then click Buy Now.
The following Prometheus instance types support the subscription billing method: General-purpose Prometheus instance, Prometheus instance for Flink Serverless, Prometheus instance for ECS, and Prometheus instance for Container Service. For more information, see Overview.
A subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service provides the following built-in capabilities, Kubernetes cluster event collection, workload performance monitoring, ingress performance monitoring, and CoreDNS performance monitoring. You can choose whether to enable the capabilities on the buy page. After you enable the subscription billing method for a Prometheus instance, the dashboards of the Prometheus instance are automatically upgraded to Pro Edition. For more information, see Built-in capabilities: performance monitoring suite and integration with Kubernetes events.
Change the billing method from subscription to pay-as-you-go
To change the billing method of a subscription Prometheus instance that has not expired to pay-as-you-go, unsubscribe from the Prometheus instance. Then, the billing method of the Prometheus instance is automatically changed to pay-as-you-go.
For more information, see Refund policy.
For information about the pay-as-you-go billing method, see Pay-as-you-go.