Billing and Usage Guide ​

This document provides a detailed overview of the Usage section within our billing system. It explains how to navigate the user interface, monitor resource consumption, and configure clusters and namespaces for effective cost management.

AppsCode Billing Console — Usage ​

The AppsCode Billing Console is a web-based hub at AppsCode Billing Console where you can manage contracts, link clusters, generate license-proxyserver installers, track licensed clusters, and monitor usage—all in one place.

This section focuses on the Usage dashboard, which shows the resources consumed by downstream AppsCode services like KubeDB running in your clusters.

Billing View (Month, Product, Usage, View By) ​

• Month: Our billing is month-specific. Pick the month to review and the dashboard refreshes all charts and tables to that month.
• Product: Use the Product dropdown to scope data to one product (KubeDB, KubeStash, Voyager, KubeVault).
• Usage Types:
  • Total Usage: total consumption for the selected scope, measured primarily in Core-Minute and GiB-Minute.
  • Billable Usage: the portion that is billable, measured primarily in Core-Month and GiB-Month. Billable is computed only if your organization has a paid contract for the selected product. If there’s no paid contract, a 30‑day free contract is applied and usage during this period is counted as free usage. See the Contract docs for details.
• View By:
  • Choose how data is grouped. For Database view, you can drill down Kinds → Clusters → Deployments (for example, kubedb.com/Postgres → clusters running Postgres → individual database deployments).

Additional View By filters

• View By: Cluster — Start at clusters to see per‑cluster usage, then drill down Clusters → Kinds → Deployments (for example, cluster-prod → kubedb.com/Postgres → individual postgres database deployments in cluster-prod).
• View By: Namespace — Start at namespaces to see per‑namespace usage, then drill down Namespaces → Deployments (for example, namespace-client-org-1 → individual database deployments in that namespace).

Billable Usage and Cost Management ​

Billable shows the chargeable portion of usage for the selected month and product, reported in Core-Month and GiB-Month.

What you’ll see in the Billable table

• Billable Usage: total chargeable usage for the month after applying contracts and rules.
• PROD/NON-PROD usage: billable usage split by cluster mode—clusters marked prod are priced at the PROD rate; clusters marked qa, staging, or dev are priced at the NON‑PROD rate.
• Free usage: usage that isn’t billed. This includes:
  • Trial usage from namespaces annotated ace.appscode.com/enable-resource-trial=true (first one‑month free per database starting from its creation in that namespace).
  • Usage covered by the 30‑day free contract when there’s no paid contract for the selected product.

How to influence these numbers:

• Cluster mode (PROD vs NON‑PROD) and namespace trials are configured in Cost Management: Cost Management
• Contract behavior (paid vs. 30‑day free when none exists) is described here: Contract docs

For more details, please contact AppsCode administrators.