Monitoring your Ephemeral billed usage
From Tonic Ephemeral, you can track your organization's Ephemeral usage across a specified time period.
About database billing units
You are charged for your Ephemeral usage based on database billing units.
Ephemeral Cloud
For Ephemeral Cloud, a unit is equal to one eighth of a vCPU running for an hour. To calculate the number of database billing units for a database:
Database billing units = <vCPUs> x <Active hours> x 8
For example, for a database that is configured with .5 vCPU and that runs for 3 hours:
.5 x 3 x 8 = 12 database billing units
Self-hosted Ephemeral
For self-hosted instances of Ephemeral, where the databases run on the customer's own equipment, a database billing unit is equivalent to an hour of database activity.
Database billing units = <Active hours>
For example, for a database that runs for 3 hours, the customer is charged for 3 database billing units.
Viewing the usage summary in the navigation bar
In the Ephemeral navigation bar, the usage summary displays the number of database billing units for your organization during the current calendar month.
For example, if the current date is June 15, then the usage summary displays the number of database billing units from June 1 to June 15.
The usage metrics are updated once every 24 hours. The Usage Metrics page indicates when the metrics were most recently updated.
The displayed metrics do not include activity that occurred since the most recent calculation. For example, suppose that the metrics were most recently calculated 10 hours ago. In that case, the Usage Metrics page does not include any activity from the previous 10 hours, including new databases.
Displaying the Usage Metrics page
To display the Usage Metrics page, click the usage summary.
The Usage Metrics page includes:
The time frame selector
Summary metrics for the database billing units and databases activated
A list of databases that were active at any time during the selected time frame
Selecting the time period for the metrics
By default, the Usage Metrics page displays the metrics for the current calendar month.
You can specify the time period to display the metrics for.
To set the time period, select the start and end dates.
Summary metrics
The left side of the Usage Metrics page contains summary metrics for the selected time period.
Database billing units
For the selected time period, the Database Billing Units panel displays:
The total number of database billing units
The average number of database billing units for each database
Databases activated
For the selected time period, the Databases Activated panel displays:
The number of databases that were activated
The average number databases that were activated each day
Database list
For the selected time period, the database list displays the list of databases that accrued database billing units.
You can filter the list by the database name.
For each database, the list includes:
Database name, hostname, and port
Database billing units for the database for the selected time period
The configured resources, including:
vCPUs
RAM
Allocated storage
The number of database billing units that the database accrues each hour while it runs
The number of hours that the database was active during the selected time period
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