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Billing samples

Billing samples

This topic includes billing examples for IBM Cloud Monitoring.

Billing sample 1: Basic usage

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:

1 Kubernetes cluster with 3 worker nodes running agents for orchestrated environments
- Host-1 generates 1200 custom metrics time-series
- Host-2 generates 1000 custom metrics time-series
- Host-3 generates 1500 custom metrics time-series

The billing calculation for the month is calculated as follows:

Base cost per host

The base price per host per month is 35.05 USD which includes up to 1K time-series (includes Prometheus, JMX, appchecks, and StatsD metrics).

For 3 hosts, the total monthly base cost is 111 USD.
```
3 * 35.05 USD = 105.15 USD
```
Additional time-series cost

Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment that are included in the base cost per host of 37 USD. If you have 3 hosts, you have 3000 time-series included. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers. The following shows the calculation of the 700 additional time-series.
```
1200 + 1000 + 1500 - ( 3*1000 ) = 700
```
The result from adding the time series per host minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

700 additional time-series corresponds to tier 1. The price per host is 0.09 USD for up to 100K time-series per month.
```
700 * 0.072 USD = 50.40 USD
```
The total cost for additional time-series is 50.40 USD.

The total monitoring cost per month is 155.55 USD.

105.15 USD + 50.40 USD = 155.55 USD

Billing sample 2: Unused time-series allotment

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:

2 Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters with a total of 5 worker nodes running agents for orchestrated environments
- Host-1 generates 2000 custom metrics time-series
- Host-2 generates 100 custom metrics time-series
- Host-3 generates 500 custom metrics time-series
- Host-4 generates 100 custom metrics time-series
- Host-5 generates 200 custom metrics time-series

The billing calculation for the month is calculated as follows:

Base cost per host

The price per host per month is 30.05 USD which includes up to 1K time-series (includes Prometheus, JMX, appchecks, and StatsD metrics) and 50 containers.

For 5 hosts, the total base cost is 150.25 USD.
```
5 * 30.05 USD = 150.25 USD
```
Additional time-series cost

Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers.
```
2000 + 100 + 500 + 100 + 200 - ( 5*1000 ) = -1100
```
The result from adding the time series per host minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

You have 1100 more time-series available per your configuration.

The total cost for additional time-series is 0 USD.

The total monitoring cost per month is 150.25 USD.

150.25 USD + 0 USD + 0 USD + 0 USD = 150.25 USD

Billing sample 3: Platform metrics only

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration for platform metrics:

Event-stream generates 50 time-series per month
IBM Cloud Databases generates 60 time-series per month
30k API calls

The billing calculation for the month is calculated as follows:

Additional time-series cost

Since there are no agents running in this instance, there is no time-series allotment. All platform metrics time-series are priced based on the tiers. The following shows the total time-series for the configuration.
```
50 + 60 = 110
```
For tier 1, the price per time-series is 0.09 USD (Tier 1) for up to 100K time-series per month.
```
110 * 0.072 USD = 7.92 USD
```
Additional API calls

1M API calls are included with the instance each month.

The price for additional API calls is 0.01 USD per 1000 API calls.
```
0.03M - 1M = -970k
0 * 0.01 USD/1k = 0 USD
```
The total cost for additional API calls is 0 USD.

The total monitoring cost per month is 7.92 USD.

7.92 USD + 0 USD = 7.92 USD

Since there were no agents running in this example, the base price and additional containers costs were not applicable to this example.

Billing sample 4: Host allotment and platform metrics combined

The following configuration demonstrates billing for a combination of host time-series allotment as well as platform metrics.

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:

3 hosts running agents for orchestrated environments
- Host-1 generates 1000 custom metrics time-series
- Host-2 generates 850 custom metrics time-series
- Host-3 generates 800 custom metrics time-series
Cloud Foundry generates 200 time-series per month
Event Streams generates 200 time-series per month
IBM Cloud Databases generates 100 time-series per month
100 containers
300k API calls

The billing calculation for the month would look like:

Base cost per host

The price per host per month is 30.05 USD which includes up to 1K time-series (includes Prometheus, JMX, appchecks, and StatsD metrics) and 50 containers.

For 3 hosts, the total cost is 90.15 USD.
```
3 * 30.05 USD = 90.15 USD
```
Additional time-series cost

Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers. In this case, 150 time-series.
```
1000 + 850 + 800 + 200 + 200 + 100 - ( 3*1000 ) = 150
```
The result from adding the time series per host, plus the platform metrics minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

Notice that since the Base cost per host time-series allotment was not completely used by the agents, 350 of the 500 platform metrics time-series were covered by the base tier. Only the additional 150 platform metrics time-series (500 - 350 = 150)have an additional cost.
```
150 * 0.072 USD (Tier-1) = 10.80 USD
```
The total cost for time-series is 10.80 USD.

The total monitoring cost per month is 124.50 USD.

90.15 USD + 10.80 USD = 100.95 USD

Billing sample 5: Basic usage for Virtual Machine or Bare Metal servers running an agent for non-orchestrated environments

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:

3 hosts running an agent for non-orchestrated environments
- Host-1 generates 50 custom metrics time-series
- Host-2 generates 100 custom metrics time-series
- Host-3 generates 100 custom metrics time-series

The billing calculation for the month is calculated as follows:

Base cost per host

The base price per host per month is 10.07 USD.

For 3 hosts, the total base cost is 30.21 USD.
```
3 * 10.07 USD = 30.21 USD
```
Time-series cost

Time-series are priced based on the tiers. In this scenario you require 250 additional time-series.
```
50 + 100 + 100  = 250
```
The result from adding the time series per host defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

250 time-series corresponds to tier 1. The price per host is 0.09 USD for up to 100K time-series per month.
```
250 * 0.072 USD = 18.00 USD
```
The total cost for additional time-series is 18.00 USD.

The total monitoring cost per month is 48.31 USD.

30.21 USD + 18.00 USD = 48.31 USD