Billing¶

In Console > Billing, you can view the balance of your billing account and usage statistics of billable items, and analyze costs from four aspects: bill details, monthly bills, usage, and data transmission usage.

Billing Account Overview¶

You can view the billing account name, cash account balance, voucher balance, and prepaid card balance, set high-spending alerts for the account, or directly navigate to the Billing Center.

Set High-Spending Alerts¶

Total Threshold Alert: Set an overall spending threshold for the workspace, and send email alerts to members when the threshold is exceeded.
Single Billable Item Alert: Set alerts for individual billable items, and send email alerts when the daily bill amount exceeds the threshold.

Enter the total alert threshold.
Select a billable item and enter the Alert Threshold.
Select members to notify. When the actual bill amount exceeds the set alert threshold, whether for the total threshold or a single billable item, alert emails will be sent to the selected members.
Confirm.

Note

Only Owners and Administrators can set high-spending alerts.
Owners are not restricted by the notification recipient settings and will receive email notifications when alerts are triggered.

Usage Statistics¶

View statistics for each billable item as of now and as of yesterday.

For information on billable items and pricing models, see Billing Plans.

Billable Item	Unit	Description
DataKit Count	units / day
Time Series	per thousand / day	Counts the number of unique tag combinations for all metrics in the metric data reported via DataKit on the current day.
Log Data Count	per million / day	Data generated by functions such as logs, events, and synthetic tests.
Log Raw Write Traffic	per GB /day	The size of the raw log write traffic reported by users.
Data Forwarded to Default Storage Capacity	per GB / day	Based on the current workspace's data forwarding to the Guance internal storage type, the forwarded traffic size is aggregated and statistics are calculated for the full data volume, with billing based on the corresponding data.
Data Forwarded to OSS/S3/OBS/Kafka	per GB / day	Based on the current workspace's different data forwarding external storage types, the forwarded traffic size is aggregated and statistics are calculated for the daily incremental data, with billing based on the corresponding data.
Trace Count	per million Traces / day	Counts the number of Traces in the reported trace data. Generally, if the `trace_id` is the same in the Span data, these Spans will be grouped under one Trace.
Profile Count	per ten thousand Profiles / day	Counts the number of reported application performance Profile data.
Tracing Raw Write Traffic
RUM PV Count	per ten thousand PVs / day	Counts the number of page views from user access reports, generally derived by counting the daily number of Resource, Long Task, Error, and Action data.
RUM Raw Write Traffic
Session Replay Count	per thousand Sessions / day	Counts the number of Sessions that actually generated session replay data. Generally derived by counting the number of `session_id` with `has_replay: true` in the Session data.
Synthetic Test Count	per ten thousand API Tests / day	Costs generated by using the Synthetic Tests functionality.
Pipeline Data Processing Traffic	per GB / day	The size of all raw log data processed by the central pipeline.
Sensitive Data Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	The size of the raw traffic of sensitive data detected based on scanning rules.
SIEM Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	The actual scanned data volume after compression in the workspace.
Trigger Count	per ten thousand / day	Costs generated by using functions such as anomaly detection and metric generation.
Report Send Count	per send / day	The number of daily sends for scheduled reports within the workspace.
Network Host Count	per host reporting network data / day	The number of `host` counted in the eBPF reported network data within the workspace.
SMS Send Count	per 10 messages / day	The number of SMS messages sent on the current day.

Bill Details¶

Displays consumption data for each product from dimensions such as billing mode, usage, amount payable, and arrears. Supports viewing cost statistics by month.

Provides a one-click "Hide $0 Bills" function and allows exporting bill details for the selected month or the past 12 months as a CSV file.

Monthly Bill¶

Displays total bill statistics on a monthly basis, covering dimensions such as total monthly consumption, cash consumption, cloud account consumption, voucher consumption, prepaid card consumption, and total arrears.

Supports a one-click "Hide $0 Bills" function and allows exporting bill details for the selected month or the past 12 months as a CSV file.

Usage Analysis¶

Intuitively displays the usage of each billable item in the current time zone through line charts. Supports manually switching to the billing time zone (UTC+8) to view details.

Data Transmission Usage Analysis¶

Displays the transmission volume of all data transmission rules in the workspace. Supports viewing statistics for time dimensions such as today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, and this year.

Note

If the transmission rule is saved to the Guance backup log, the corresponding data retention policy is displayed; otherwise, it is shown as -.
Only rules that exist and have a transmission volume > 0 are listed.

Billing Center¶

Workspace Role Differences

Owner: Has the Billing Center button.
Administrator: Does not have the above button.
Other members: Do not have permission to view the Billing module.

Guance uses two independent but statistically linked account systems for the Commercial Plan, implementing usage-based billing and cost settlement:

Console account: Tracks the scale of data ingestion and bill details for the workspace, and synchronizes this information to the designated Billing Center account.
Billing Center account: Bound via the Workspace ID, it enables unified cost management at the workspace level and supports various payment methods.