So I now have my massive IT infrastructure (rev 1.0) online and ready to rock and or roll. And i’m looking at the ‘logging’ and ‘analytics’ that are included. Interesting, good to know its there if I ever want to debug something. But wait, I’m paying extra for this? And its not even obvious how much. lets take a look at the pricing matrix:
Feature | Price1 | Free allotment per month | Effective date | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stackdriver Logging | $0.50/GB | First 50 GB/project | June 30, 2018 | |
Stackdriver Monitoring data | $0.2580/MB: 150–100,000MB $0.1510/MB: 100,000–250,000MB $0.0610/MB: >250,000 MB | All GCP metrics2 Non-GCP metrics: <150MB | June 30, 2018 | |
Stackdriver Monitoring API calls | $0.01/1,000 API calls | First 1 million API calls | June 30, 2018 | |
Stackdriver Trace ingestion | $0.20/million spans | First 2.5 million spans | September 30, 2018 | |
Stackdriver Trace retrieval | $0.02/million spans | First 25 million spans | September 30, 2018 |
OK, so, um, how much will this cost? On the first, I guess its reasonable that unless:
- Some app has a bug and goes for a loop
- Someone accesses it in a tight loop passsword guessing
That I should be under 50GB (a project is sort of a collection of all the stuff together, so its multiple virtual machines each of which runs multiple containers).
Now for the monitoring data. Hmm. What’s a non-GCP metric?
On the 3rd, well, I’m not calling the API. I guess the infrastructure (GKE) is calling the API to post tho?
So, since some of these services may log URL accesses or login attempts, who can tell me what my cost this month will be? The url is http://localhost/ if you want to try and run up my bill.
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