Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Pro Edition supports the subscription billing method. This topic describes the limits on the billing method and billable items of Managed Service for Prometheus Pro Edition.
The subscription billing method of Managed Service for Prometheus is no longer supported. For more information, see [Billing changes] Discontinuation of the subscription billing method for Managed Service for Prometheus.
Usage notes
The following Prometheus instances support the subscription billing method:
Prometheus instance for Container Service: For more information, see Billing of Prometheus instances for Container Service.
Prometheus instance for ECS: For more information, see Billing of general-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless.
General-purpose Prometheus instance: For more information about the billing method, see Billing of general-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless.
Prometheus instance for Flink Serverless: For more information, see Billing of general-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless.
Billable items
You are charged for Managed Service for Prometheus based on the capacity of your Prometheus instances and the storage duration of your data samples. Different Prometheus instance types support different capacity options. The following table describes the capacity options.
Capacity options
Prometheus instance for Container Service
Prometheus instances for Container Service capacity options based on the number of nodes deployed in your cluster. For example, if you deploy 10 nodes in your cluster, you can select the medium capacity, large capacity, and extra large capacity, but cannot select the small capacity. For more information, see Billing of Prometheus instances for Container Service.
Capacity | Number of nodes | Number of data samples that can be reported for custom metrics per month | Description |
Small | 1~5 | 3 billion | For example, you have deployed 4 nodes in your cluster and you need to report 3 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the small capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service. |
Medium | 6~20 | 10 billion | For example, you have deployed 10 nodes in your cluster and you need to report 8 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the medium capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service. |
Large | 21~50 | 25 billion | For example, you have deployed 30 nodes in your cluster and you need to report 20 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the large capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service. |
Extra large | 51~200 | 60 billion | For example, you have deployed 100 nodes in your cluster and you need to report 50 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the extra large capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service. |
Custom | More than 200 | For every 20 additional nodes, you can report 10 billion custom metrics per month. | For example, you have deployed 260 nodes in your cluster and you need to report 70 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the custom capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance for Container Service. |
General-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless
You can configure the custom capacity for the preceding Prometheus instance types. For more information, see Billing of general-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless.
Capacity | Number of data samples that can be reported for custom metrics per month | Description |
Small | 3 billion | For example, you need to report 3 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the small capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance. |
Medium | 10 billion | For example, you need to report 8 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the medium capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance. |
Large | 25 billion | For example, you need to report 20 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the large capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance. |
Extra large | 60 billion | For example, you need to report 50 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the extra large capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance. |
Custom | More than 60 billion | You can configure the number of data samples that you can report for custom metrics. For example, you need to report 80 billion data samples for custom metrics each month. We recommend that you select the custom capacity when you purchase a subscription Prometheus instance. |
Storage duration
You can store metrics for one month, three months, or six months. If you select 1 Month as the storage duration when you purchase a Prometheus instance, you can change the storage duration to 3 months or 6 months. For more information, see How do I change the storage duration of the data samples for a metric?
Managed Service for Prometheus automatically clears the historical data samples that have expired.
Usage notes
If the number of reported data samples exceeds the capacity of a Prometheus instance, Managed Service for Prometheus performs throttling on the data samples that you can report to ensure service stability. You can also change the capacity of the Prometheus instance. On the Instances page, find the Prometheus instance and choose in the Actions column.
The metrics are classified into basic metrics and custom metrics. For more information about basic metrics, see Metrics. Custom metrics refer to non-basic metrics.
Billing cycle
The billing cycle of a subscription Prometheus instance is the amount of time to which you commit when you purchase the instance (based on UTC+8). The billing cycle starts at the time when the subscription Prometheus instance is purchased or renewed (accurate to seconds) and ends at 00:00:00 on the day after the expiration date.
The unit for the billing cycles of a Prometheus instance is calendar years or months.
Activation
For information about how to activate a Prometheus instance for Container Service, see Billing of Prometheus instances for Container Service.
For information about how to activate a general-purpose Prometheus instance, Prometheus instance for ECS, or Prometheus instance for Flink Serverless, see Billing of general-purpose Prometheus instances, Prometheus instances for ECS, and Prometheus instances for Flink Serverless.