Pay-per-Use

Pay-per-use is a billing mode in which you pay after using the service. This mode is recommended if you do not need any prepayment or long-term commitment. This section describes the billing rules for pay-per-use LTS.

Application Scenarios

LTS collects logs for unified management, and displays them on the LTS console in an intuitive and orderly manner. You can transfer logs for long-term storage.

Billing Items

You are charged based on the actual read/write traffic, index traffic, storage volume, and transfer traffic of logs.

**Table 1** Billing items
Billing Item	Description
Log read/write traffic	Log transmission traffic.
Log index traffic	Log search depends on indexes. Full-text index is enabled by default.
Log storage volume	Includes standard and cold storage volume.
Log transfer	Includes the basic and advanced log transfer traffic.

Billing Cycle

In pay-per-use mode, LTS resources are billed by hour. Fees are settled on the hour (UTC+8). Once settlement is complete, a new billing cycle starts.

For example, if log reporting starts at 8:45:30 and then stops at 9:45:30, CDRs will be reported in two billing cycles: 8:00:00–8:59:59 and 9:00:00–9:59:59. (If the free quota does not exceed 500 MB/month, no CDR is reported.)

Billing Modes

Cloud service logs adopt pay-per-use billing. Fees are settled based on the actual usage of each billing item. You can use the service first and pay for it. A certain free quota is provided monthly.

The free quota is provided based on the Huawei account level and can be shared by all LTS log groups under the account.

Impact of Arrears

Arrears alert

The system will deduct fees for pay-per-use resources at the end of each billing cycle. You will be notified by email, SMS, or internal messages when your account is in arrears.

Impact of arrears

After the account is in arrears, logs cannot be reported and LTS is unavailable.

For details, see Topping Up an Account.

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