Why Are Additional Fees Incurred After Prometheus Instances Are Connected?

CCE Container Scenario

Generally, after you purchase a CCE cluster and deploy a workload, basic metrics about clusters, pods, containers, and nodes are collected by default. These metrics are reported free of charge.

Fees may be generated due to:

1. Prometheus instances have built-in service discovery functions, which collect and report custom metrics to AOM.

   Table 1 Fees about built-in ServiceMonitor

   ServiceMonitor	Fees Generated or Not	Default Value (Disabled: Custom Metrics Are Not Collected.)
   etcd-server	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled
   kube-controller	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled
   kube-scheduler	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled
   kubernetes-service-endpoints	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled

   Table 2 Fees about built-in PodMonitor

   PodMonitor	Fees Generated or Not	Default Value (Disabled: Custom Metrics Are Not Collected.)
   istio	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled
   kubernetes-pods	Some custom metrics are involved, incurring fees.	Disabled

2. You configure ServiceMonitor or PodMonitor to collect and report metrics to AOM, incurring fees. For example, custom middleware MySQL, Nginx, and service metrics in container scenarios.

Cloud Service Scenario

After cloud services are connected to AOM Prometheus instances, some of them will incur fees. Details are as follows:

• Cloud services not billed: ModelArts, IoT Device Access (IoTDA), Intelligent EdgeFabric (IEF), and Cloud Service Engine (CSE).
• Cloud services billed: All cloud services excluding ModelArts, IoTDA, IEF, and CSE are billed after they are connected to Prometheus instances.

ECS Scenario

In the ECS scenario, self-built middleware will incur fees.

If Node Exporter is installed in the ECS scenario, some metrics will incur fees.

Other Scenarios

Metrics other than VM, container, ModelArts, IEF, CSE, IoTDA, and Node Exporter metrics may incur fees when they are reported to AOM.