Alibaba Cloud provides Container Monitoring Basic Edition free of charge and Pro Edition that charges fees based on the node count of a monitored container cluster. This topic compares the features of the Basic Edition and Pro Edition, and describes the billing rules of the Pro Edition.
Limits
Container Monitoring Pro Edition supports ACK Pro clusters.
Comparison of features and billing rules for the Basic Edition and Pro Edition
Category | Container Monitoring Basic Edition | Container Monitoring Pro Edition |
Storage duration of basic metric data | 7 days | 90 days |
Prometheus collector | Provides non-managed agents. By default, each agent occupies 3 CPU cores and 4 GB of memory. You need to manage the agents by yourself. | Provides managed agents with a production service level agreement (SLA) of 99.95%. |
Dashboard | Provides basic non-Grafana dashboards based on visualization components developed by Alibaba Cloud. | Provides various Grafana dashboards. |
Alerting | Provides no default alert rules. | Provides default alert rules for each component of Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK). |
Data export | Provides open source standard data export capabilities such as Remote Read and HTTP API. | Provides Remote Write and EventBridge-based data delivery capabilities in addition to the standard open source data export capabilities. |
Fees | Free of charge. Note If the Prometheus instance of a container cluster has custom metric data reported, additional fees are incurred. Custom metrics charge fees based on the amount of written metric data. For more information, see Billing overview. | Uses the pay-as-you-go billing method and charges fees based on the node count of a cluster. Note If the Prometheus instance of a container cluster has custom metric data reported, additional fees are incurred. Custom metrics charge fees based on the amount of written metric data. For more information, see Billing overview. |
Billing rules
Container Monitoring Pro Edition offers the pay-as-you-go billing method. The system automatically calculates the OCU usage based on the cluster size. For every 10 nodes in a cluster, 1 OCU is charged. Clusters with fewer than 10 nodes are billed as 1 OCU.
OCU unit prices
Observability Capacity Unit (OCU) is a billing unit proposed by Alibaba Cloud. The OCU usage is automatically calculated based on the hourly resource usage.
Item | Chinese mainland | Regions outside the Chinese mainland |
OCU | USD 0.023 | USD 0.033 |
Fees
The following table lists the fees applicable to the Chinese mainland on the Alibaba Cloud public cloud.
Node count of a single cluster | OCUs/hour | Hourly fee (USD) | Daily fee (USD) | Monthly fee (USD) |
1 - 10 | 1 | 0.023 | 0.552 | 16.56 |
11 - 20 | 2 | 0.046 | 1.104 | 33.12 |
21 - 30 | 3 | 0.069 | 1.656 | 49.68 |
31 - 40 | 4 | 0.092 | 2.208 | 66.24 |
41 - 50 | 5 | 0.115 | 2.76 | 82.8 |
51 - 60 | 6 | 0.138 | 3.312 | 99.36 |
61 - 70 | 7 | 0.161 | 3.864 | 115.92 |
71 - 80 | 8 | 0.184 | 4.416 | 132.48 |
81 - 90 | 9 | 0.207 | 4.968 | 149.04 |
91 - 100 | 10 | 0.23 | 5.52 | 165.6 |
101 - 110 | 11 | 0.253 | 6.072 | 182.16 |
111 - 120 | 12 | 0.276 | 6.624 | 198.72 |
121 - 130 | 13 | 0.299 | 7.176 | 215.28 |
131 - 140 | 14 | 0.322 | 7.728 | 231.84 |
141 - 150 | 15 | 0.345 | 8.28 | 248.4 |
151 - 160 | 16 | 0.368 | 8.832 | 264.96 |
161 - 170 | 17 | 0.391 | 9.384 | 281.52 |
171 - 180 | 18 | 0.414 | 9.936 | 298.08 |
181 - 190 | 19 | 0.437 | 10.488 | 314.64 |
191 - 200 | 20 | 0.46 | 11.04 | 331.2 |
Suppose that an ACK Pro cluster has 239 nodes at 10:59, and the node count is increased to 251 at 11:00. In this case, the fee charged from 10:00 to 10:59 is USD 0.552 (24 × 0.023), whereas the fee charged from 11:00 to 12:00 is USD 0.598 (26 × 0.023).