Billing¶

In Console > Billing, you can view settlement account balances and billing item usage statistics, and analyze expenses from four aspects: bill details, monthly bills, usage volume, and data forwarding usage.

Plans¶

Three plans are offered: Free Plan, Commercial Plan, and Deployment Plan.

Public Cloud: Free Plan and Commercial Plan. Both use a pay-as-you-go billing model. There is no difference in core functionality, but the latter supports larger-scale data ingestion and more flexible storage retention.
Private Cloud Deployment Plan: Community Plan (Free Plan) and Commercial Plan. The latter can choose from various billing models such as pay-as-you-go, subscription-based, or license-based.

Account Overview¶

View settlement account name, cash balance, voucher balance, pre-purchased card balance, set up high expense alerts for your account, or go directly to Billing Center.

Set High Expense Alert¶

Total Threshold Alert: Set an overall spending threshold for your workspace, and send email alerts to members when this threshold is exceeded.
Individual Billing Item Alert: Set alerts for individual billing items; send email alerts when daily bill amounts exceed the threshold.

Enter total alert threshold;
Select a billing item and enter the alert threshold;
Choose notification recipients. Regardless of whether it's the total threshold or a single billing item, alert emails will be sent to selected members whenever actual bill amounts exceed the set thresholds;
Confirm.

Note

Only Owner and Administrator roles can set high expense alerts;
Owners will receive alert emails regardless of recipient selections.

Usage Statistics¶

View current and yesterday's statistics for each billing item.

For information on billing items and pricing models, refer to Pricing.

Billing Item	Unit	Description
Active DataKit
Time Series	Per thousand / day	Counts the number of tag combinations for metrics reported via DataKit on the day
Log Entries	Per million / day	Logs, events, security checks, synthetic tests, and other generated data
Log Ingestion Volume	Per GB / day	Size of raw logs uploaded by users
Backup Logs	Per GB / day	Based on data forwarded to Guance internal storage types, summarizes forwarded traffic volumes, counts all data, and generates bills accordingly
Data Forwarding-OSS/S3/OBS/Kafka	Per GB / day	Based on different external archive storage types for data forwarding, summarizes forwarded traffic volumes, counts daily incremental data, and generates bills accordingly
APM Traces	Per million Traces / day	Counts the number of traces in uploaded APM data. Typically, spans with the same `trace_id` are grouped under one Trace
APM Profiles	Per ten thousand Profiles / day	Counts the number of uploaded APM Profile data entries
APM Ingestion Volume
RUM PVs	Per ten thousand PVs / day	Counts page views reported by users. Usually calculated based on the number of daily Resource, Long Task, Error, and Action data entries
RUM Ingestion Volume
Session Replay	Per thousand Sessions / day	Counts sessions that actually generated replay data. Typically determined by counting `session_id`s where `has_replay: true` appears
API Synthetic Tests	Per ten thousand API tests / day	Costs incurred through availability monitoring functionality
Central Pipeline Processing Volume	Per GB / day	Counts the size of raw logs processed by the central pipeline
Sensitive Data Scanning Volume	Per GB / day	Counts the volume of sensitive data scanned based on scanning rules
SIEM Scanning Volume	Per GB / day	Counts compressed data volume actually scanned for the workspace
Task Invocations	Per ten thousand / day	Costs incurred through anomaly detection, metric generation, and other functions
Scheduled Reports	Per occurrence / day	Number of scheduled reports sent daily within the workspace
Network	Per host reporting network data / day	Counts the number of `hosts` identified from eBPF-reported network data within the workspace
SMS Messages	Per 10 messages / day	Counts the number of SMS messages sent on the day

Bill Details¶

Displays consumption data across products from dimensions like billing mode, usage volume, amount payable, and overdue payments, supporting viewing by month.

Provides a "Hide $0 Bills" feature and allows exporting detailed bills for selected months or the past 12 months into CSV files.

Monthly Bill¶

Displays total bill statistics by month, covering dimensions such as total monthly consumption, cash payments, cloud account payments, voucher usage, pre-purchased card usage, and total arrears.

Supports the "Hide $0 Bills" feature and allows exporting detailed bills for selected months or the past 12 months into CSV files.

Usage Analysis¶

Visually displays usage status of each billing item through line charts.

Data Forwarding Analysis¶

Shows the number of data forwarding rules across the entire workspace, supporting viewing statistics by today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year, etc.

Note

If a forwarding rule saves data to Guance backup logs, the corresponding data retention policy is displayed; otherwise, shown as -.
Only lists existing rules with forwarding count > 0.

Billing Center¶

Workspace Role Differences

Owner: Has access to the Billing Center button;
Administrator: No access to the above button;
Other members: No access to the Billing module.

Guance uses two independent yet interconnected Commercial Plan accounts for usage-based billing and settlement:

Console account: Tracks data volume ingested by workspaces and bill details, synchronizing this data to the designated Billing Center account.
Billing Center account: Bound via workspace ID, enables unified cost management at the workspace level, supporting multiple payment settlement methods.