Billing¶

In Console > Billing, you can view your settlement account balance 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 Alert¶

Overall 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. Email alerts are sent when the daily bill amount exceeds the threshold.

Fill in the overall alert threshold.
Select a billing item and enter the Alert Threshold.
Select members to notify. When the actual bill amount exceeds the set alert threshold, whether for the overall threshold or a single billing item, alert emails will be sent to the 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 statistics for each billing item up to the current moment and up to 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 reported via DataKit by the user on the current day.
Log Data Count	per million / day	Data generated by the use of Logs, Events, and other features.
Log Raw Write Traffic	per GB /day	The size of the raw log write traffic reported by the user.
Data Transmission to Default Storage Capacity	per GB / day	Based on the current workspace's data transmission to the Guance internal storage type, aggregates the transmitted traffic size, counts full data, and bills 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 the transmitted traffic size, counts daily incremental data, and bills 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 page views from reported user access. Typically 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` in Session data where `has_replay: true` exists.
Testing Count	per ten thousand API Tests / day	Costs incurred from using the Synthetic Tests feature.
Testing Data Count	per million / day	Counts the daily newly added testing data entries.
Pipeline Data Processing Traffic	per GB / day	Counts the size of all raw log data processed by the central pipeline that was matched.
Sensitive Data Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	Based on scanning rules, counts the size of the raw traffic of scanned sensitive data.
SIEM Scanning Traffic	per GB / day	Counts the actual scanned data volume after compression in the workspace.
Trigger Count	per ten thousand / day	Costs incurred from using anomaly detection, metric generation, and other features.
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 count of `host` statistics from 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 daily newly added associated error data entries, including error data reported to the Error Center.
Data Point Count	per ten million / day	Fully counts the total number of actual data points 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 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 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: Category View and Summary View. By default, you enter the Category View, and the system automatically remembers the mode you last stayed in:

Category View: Each billing item is displayed in an independent small chart with its own Y-axis range, facilitating comparison of individual trends.
Summary View: Aggregates all metrics for display on a single chart to view overall trends. In this mode, the chart controls offer two-level switching:
- Metric Unit: You can choose Byte (for traffic) or Number (for counts), displaying byte-based metrics and count-based metrics respectively. The two metric sets do not overlap.
- Chart Type: You can choose "Line Chart" or "Stacked Chart". Line charts use a logarithmic scale, suitable for observing fluctuations in individual items. 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 Time Zone" to view data in the billing time zone (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 lists rules that exist and have a transmission count > 0.

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 adopts a Commercial Plan with two independently operated but statistically linked account systems to achieve usage billing and cost settlement:

Console Account: Tracks the data ingestion scale, bill details, etc., of the workspace and synchronizes them to the designated Billing Center account.
Billing Center Account: Bound via Workspace ID, enabling unified cost management at the workspace level and supporting multiple payment settlement methods.