Resource Reconciliation

Live can check whether a bill is consistent with the actual resource usage.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

To check whether the usage of Live is consistent with that in bills, log in to the Live console, choose Dashboard in the navigation pane, and check the billing option on the right. The following table lists whether a billing mode supports Live usage check and the check methods.

Billing Option	Usage Type	Usage Check Method
Billing by traffic	Traffic	For details, see Checking the Resource Usage – Traffic-based Billing. Usage cannot be checked by enterprise project, domain name, or tag.
Billing by daily peak bandwidth	Daily peak bandwidth	The total usage cannot be checked. This billing option does not support cost splitting.
Billing by 95th percentile bandwidth	95th percentile bandwidth	Usage cannot be checked by enterprise project, domain name, or tag.
Value-added service	Cloud Live transcoding: You are billed based on the encoding standard, output resolution, and output duration.	-

Checking the Resource Usage – Traffic-based Billing

Assume that account A is billed by traffic every hour on August 21, 2023. The following example shows how to check the resource usage in one hour:

Log in to the Live console and choose Service Monitoring. The Downstream Bandwidth/Traffic tab page is displayed by default. Set the parameters for querying the traffic usage as follows:
- Time: Select Custom and set the time to 2023/08/21 11:00:00 - 2023/08/21 11:59:59.
- Domain name: Select a Live domain name of the current region (CN North-Beijing4).
- Region: Select China.
- Province: Select All provinces/states.
- Carrier: Select All carriers.
- Application name: No setting is required.
- Stream name: No setting is required.
- Interval: Select Every 5 minutes.
- Protocol: Select All Protocols.
Select Traffic in the right pane. As shown in Figure 1, the resource usage is 187.08 MB.
Convert MB to GB and round the conversion result to three decimal places. The converted value is 0.1827 GB (187.08 MB/1024).

You can also click on the right of the page to download the queried downstream traffic result to your local PC.

Figure 1 Resource usage shown on the Live console
Go to Billing Center, choose Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills in the navigation pane, and click Bill Details.
Set Settings to Usage, Data Period to Details, Service Type to Live (Live), and Resource Type to Live CDN Flow.

The resource usage from 11:00 to 12:00 on August 21, 2023 is 0.1827 GB, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 2 Resource usage shown in Billing Center
Since Billing Center's billing unit for Live CDN traffic is GB, compare the resource usage shown in Billing Center with the converted value obtained in step 2. They are the same. The usage check is complete.