Estimates resource usage of the current month.
Operation description
You can call this operation to estimate resource usage of the current month based on the metering method that is specified on the first day of the current month. You can call this operation to estimate resource usage only of the current month within your Alibaba Cloud account. The time range used for the estimation starts at 00:00 on the first day of the current month and ends 2 hours earlier than the current time.
- Pay by monthly 95th percentile: The top 5% values between the start time and end time are excluded. The estimated value is the highest value among the remaining values.
- Pay by average daily peak bandwidth per month: Estimated value = Sum of daily peak bandwidth values/Number of days. The current day is excluded.
- Pay by 4th peak bandwidth per month: The estimated value is the 4th peak bandwidth value between the start time and end time. If the time range is less than four days, the estimated value is 0.
- Pay by average daily 95th percentile bandwidth per month: Estimated value = Sum of daily 95th percentile bandwidth values/Number of days. The current day is excluded.
- Pay by 95th percentile bandwidth with 50% off from 00:00 to 08:00: The top 5% values between the start time and end time are excluded. The estimated value is the highest value among the remaining values.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action
policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resources
is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
---|---|---|---|---|
cdn:DescribeCdnUserBillPrediction | none | *All Resources * |
| none |
Request parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
StartTime | string | No | The start time of the estimation. The default value is 00:00 on the first day of the current month. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time must be in UTC. | 2018-09-30T16:00:00Z |
EndTime | string | No | The end time of the estimation. The default value is the current time. Specify the time in the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time must be in UTC. Note
The end time must be later than the start time.
| 2018-10-25T10:00:00Z |
Dimension | string | No | The billable item. A value of flow specifies bandwidth. | flow |
Area | string | No | The billable region. Valid values:
By default, the value of this parameter is determined by the metering method that is currently used. Regions inside and outside the Chinese mainland are classified into the CN and OverSeas billable regions. Billable regions inside the Chinese mainland include CN. Billable regions outside the Chinese mainland include AP1, AP2, AP3, NA, SA, EU, and MEAA. Note
For more information about billable regions, see Billable regions.
| CN,OverSeas |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSON
format
{
"EndTime": "2018-10-25T10:00:00Z",
"StartTime": "2018-09-30T16:00:00Z",
"RequestId": "C370DAF1-C838-4288-A1A0-9A87633D248E",
"BillType": "month_95",
"BillPredictionData": {
"BillPredictionDataItem": [
{
"Value": 10000,
"TimeStp": "2018-10-15T16:00:00Z",
"Area": "CN"
}
]
}
}
Error codes
HTTP status code | Error code | Error message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
400 | InvalidParameter | The specified parameter is invalid. | - |
400 | BillTypeNotFound | The user billing type is not found or the billing type of this user is not the monthly billing type. | The bill type does not exist, or your account does not support monthly bills. |
400 | InvalidStartTime.Malformed | The specified value of parameter StartTime is malformed. | The specified start time is invalid. For more information, see the help documentation of this operation. |
400 | InvalidEndTime.Malformed | The specified value of parameter EndTime is malformed. | The specified EndTime parameter is invalid. |
400 | InvalidStartTime.ValueNotSupported | The specified value of parameter StartTime is not supported. | The start time is invalid. Set this parameter to another value and try again. |
400 | InvalidTime.Malformed | Specified Time is malformed. | - |
400 | InvalidEndTime.Mismatch | Specified EndTime does not match the specified StartTime. | StartTime must be earlier than EndTime. |
400 | InvalidTimeSpan | The time span exceeds the limit. | The time span exceeds the limit. Configure a valid time span as described in API documentation. |
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.
Change history
Change time | Summary of changes | Operation |
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2023-06-13 | The Error code has changed | View Change Details |