Billing Description

This document describes the billing modes, billing items, renewals, and arrears of Log Tank Service (LTS).

For pricing details, go to Price Calculator.

• Billing mode

  LTS supports pay-per-use billing, which is a postpaid mode. You are charged based on the actual usage duration. For details, see Overview.

• Billing items

  The billing items of LTS include the log read/write traffic, log index traffic, log storage volume (standard and cold), and log transfer traffic (basic and advanced). For details about the billing factors and formulas for each billing item, see Billing Items.

  For more information about the billing samples in different scenarios and the billing process for each billing item in different billing modes, see Billing Examples.

• Bills

  You can choose Billing Center > Billing to check the LTS transactions and bills. For details, see Bills.

• Arrears

  Your account goes into arrears when the balance cannot cover the bill you need to pay. To continue using your cloud services, top up your account in time. For details, see Arrears.

• Stopping billing

  When LTS stops reporting logs, billing on traffic (log read/write traffic and log index traffic) will stop. Billing on log storage volume will not stop until all stored logs are aged. For details, see Stopping Billing.

• Cost management

  LTS costs include costs of ownership and O&M. Optimize costs in terms of cost collection, resource optimization, upgrade, cost saving awareness, and automatic O&M. For details, see Cost Management.