Billing¶

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

Settlement Account Overview¶

You can view the settlement account name, cash account balance, voucher balance, prepaid card balance, set up high consumption alerts for the account, or directly go to the Billing Center.

Set High Consumption Alerts¶

Total Threshold Alert: Set an overall consumption threshold for the workspace. When exceeded, email alerts are sent to members.
Single Billing Item Alert: Set alerts for individual billing items. When the daily bill amount exceeds the threshold, email alerts are sent.

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

Note

Only Owners and Administrators can set high consumption alerts.
The Owner role is not restricted by the notification target selection and will receive email notifications when alerts are triggered.

Usage Statistics¶

View statistical data for each billing item as of the current moment and as of yesterday.

For billing items and pricing models, refer to Billing Plans.

Billing 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 Transmission to Default Storage Capacity	per GB / day	Based on the current workspace's data transmission to Guance internal storage types, aggregates and summarizes the transmitted traffic size. Statistics are based on full data volume and billed according to the corresponding data.
Data Transmission to OSS/S3/OBS/Kafka	per GB / day	Based on the current workspace's different data transmission external archive types, aggregates and summarizes the transmitted traffic size. Statistics are based on daily incremental data and billed according to the corresponding data.
Trace Count	per million Traces / day	Counts the number of Traces in the reported trace data. Generally, if Spans share the same `trace_id`, they are grouped under one Trace.
Profile Count	per ten thousand Profiles / day	Counts the number of reported APM Profile data.
Tracing Raw Write Traffic
RUM PV Count	per ten thousand PVs / day	Counts the number of reported page views from user access. Generally calculated by counting the daily generated Resource, Long Task, Error, and Action data counts.
RUM Raw Write Traffic
Session Replay Count	per thousand Sessions / day	Counts the number of Sessions that actually generated session replay data. Generally calculated by counting the number of `session_id` with `has_replay: true` in the Session data.
Testing Count	per ten thousand API Tests / day	Costs generated by using the Synthetic Tests feature.
Pipeline Data Processing Traffic	per GB / day	Statistics on the size of all raw log data processed by the central pipeline.
Sensitive Data Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	Statistics on the raw traffic size of sensitive data scanned based on scanning rules.
SIEM Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	Statistics on the actual compressed data volume scanned for the workspace.
Trigger Count	per ten thousand / day	Costs generated by using features like anomaly detection and metric generation.
Report Send Count	per time / day	The number of times scheduled reports are sent daily 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	Counts the number of SMS messages sent on the current day.
Phone Notification Count	per time / day	Counts the number of phone calls made on the current day.
Error Count	per thousand / day	Counts the number of daily new associated error data entries, including error data reported to the Error Center.
Data Point Count	per ten million / day	Full statistics of the total number of data points actually reported for all metric data within the storage period.

Bill Details¶

Displays consumption data for each product from dimensions such as billing mode, usage, payable amount, and arrears amount. 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 last 12 months as a CSV file.

Monthly Bill¶

Displays total bill statistics by month, 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 last 12 months as a CSV file.

Usage Analysis¶

Usage Analysis supports displaying usage trends for each billing item using line charts or stacked charts, helping you track data ingestion and identify cost drivers.

The page provides two display modes: categorized view and aggregated view. It defaults to the categorized view, and the system automatically remembers the mode you last stayed in:

Categorized View: Each billing item is displayed in an independent small chart with its own Y-axis range, facilitating comparison of individual trends.
Aggregated View: Aggregates all metrics onto the same chart to view overall trends. In this mode, the chart controls provide two-level switching:
- Metric Unit: Choose between Byte (traffic) or Number (count) to display byte-based metrics and count-based metrics respectively. The two metric sets do not overlap.
- Chart Type: Choose between "Line Chart" or "Stacked Chart". Line charts use a logarithmic scale, suitable for observing individual fluctuations. Stacked charts use a linear scale, suitable for viewing the proportional composition of each data type.

The top right corner of the page supports checking "Switch to Billing Timezone" to view data in the billing timezone (UTC+8).

Data Transmission Usage Analysis¶

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

Note

If a transmission rule is saved to Guance's backup logs, the corresponding data retention policy is displayed; otherwise, it shows as -.
Only rules that exist and have a transmission count > 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 independently operated but statistically data-linked account systems for the Commercial Plan to implement usage billing and cost settlement:

Console Account: Statistics on workspace data ingestion scale, bill details, etc., are synchronized to the specified Billing Center account.
Billing Center Account: Bound via Workspace ID to achieve unified cost management at the workspace level, supporting multiple cost settlement methods.