Alibaba Log Service
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What is Alibaba Log Service
Managed log ingestion and search
Built-in dashboards and alerting
Alibaba Cloud ecosystem integration
Cloud and region dependency
Query and feature portability limits
Cost management requires governance
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based). Alibaba Log Service (Simple Log Service) also supports a pay-by-feature (original) billing mode and prepaid Resource Plans.
Free tier / quotas: 30-day free storage period for ingested data (pay-by-ingested-data mode); per-month free quotas under pay-by-feature (e.g., 500 MB/month for certain billable items) and free shard-days (31 shard-days/month) as documented.
Example costs / unit prices (official):
- Raw ingested data (pay-by-ingested-data): $0.061 per GB.
- Storage (hot): $0.002875 per GB·day.
- IA (Infrequent Access) storage: $0.000762 per GB·day.
- Archive storage: $0.00026 per GB·day.
- Read traffic from the Internet: $0.20 per GB.
- Transfer acceleration: $0.1935 per GB.
- Ingest Processor / AI Compute: $0.0232 per GB.
(Pay-by-feature / original mode example prices)
- Read and write traffic: $0.045 per GB (free quota: 500 MB/month when applicable).
- Index traffic (log data): $0.0875 per GB (free quota: 500 MB/month when applicable).
- Time-series data storage: $0.00048 per GB·day.
Other billable items noted in official docs: active shard rental fees (shard-day), index storage, metricstore/query-specification differences, Internet read traffic, data transformation and shipping traffic. Resource plans (prepaid) convert to Capacity Units (CUs) allowing discounts compared with pay-as-you-go in many scenarios (see resource-plan examples in official billing docs).
Discount options / cost-savings: Prepaid Resource Plans (1-year subscriptions) that convert to Capacity Units; tiered discounts for large flow-log volumes (tiered per-GB pricing for flow log generation); volume/commitment savings illustrated in billing examples on the official site.
Notes / limitations: Actual prices shown on the Alibaba Cloud buy/console page may vary by region and currency; official docs state "The following prices are for reference only. The actual prices are displayed on the buy page."
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