View Astra credits and usage

In the Astra Portal, you can view your credit balance and usage details on the Billing page:

  1. In the Astra Portal header, click Settings.

  2. In the Settings navigation menu, make sure the enterprise/organization filter is set to the enterprise or organization that you want to inspect.

    If you select an enterprise, you can view aggregate billing details for all organizations under the enterprise.

    If you select an organization, you can view billing details for that specific organization only. If the organization belongs to an enterprise, you must filter on the enterprise, and then click the organization name in the Organizations list.

  3. In the Settings navigation menu, click Billing.

You cannot change payment methods in the Astra Portal. For the Standard plan, payment methods are managed through IBM. For the Enterprise plan, contact your account representative.

Workload capacity tiers

Billed charges for Astra Managed Clusters databases are based on the Astra organization plan as well as each database’s workload capacity tier, units of measure (for usage metering), cloud provider, and region.

The cost of an Astra Managed Clusters database depends on the workload capacity tier you select. Each database uses a single capacity unit (CU) by default, which represents three database instances grouped together as three replicas. Scaling up a database increases costs in accordance with the number of additional CUs.

A database’s workload capacity tier represents the amount of compute power allocated to each CU, with three compute instances per CU. The Astra Portal reports costs for Astra Managed Clusters databases in hourly terms, but actual billed charges are measured in one-minute increments.

Astra offers three workload tiers that you can select when you create a Astra Managed Clusters database. For tier specifications, see Workload capacity tiers.

Credits

Credit balance and consumption depends on your plan:

  • Free plans get a fixed amount of free monthly credits. The Billing page shows your remaining monthly credit balance.

    Unused free credits don’t roll over to the next month. Free monthly credits reset on the first of every month for all organizations on the Free plan.

    If your credit limit runs low, Astra prompts you to upgrade your plan, and DataStax notifies you by email and in the Astra Portal. If database usage consumes all of your free monthly credits, your organization’s databases are suspended until you upgrade your plan or wait for the next billing cycle to refresh your monthly credits.

  • Standard plans are billed according to your chosen IBM watsonx.data subscription type: Pay-As-You-Go, Subscription, or AWS Marketplace. For more information, see your subscription terms in your IBM SaaS account.

  • Enterprise plans require an annual commitment with a contracted credit balance. The enterprise-level Billing page shows your Total contracted credits and the amount of credits consumed in the Current billing cycle.

Bills are automatically drafted monthly, based on UTC date and time.

Usage

At the enterprise-level, the Billing page shows aggregate billing details for all organizations under the enterprise.

The Consumption breakdown section shows the amount of credits consumed by each organization under the enterprise for the current billing cycle, as well as slices of consumption by activity type (reads, writes, data transfer, and storage). This helps you identify busy organizations that are consuming more credits than others so you can allocate costs across business units or teams.

You can filter usage by organization, time period, and resource type for more granular insights into your enterprise’s credit consumption.

At the organization-level, the Billing page shows billing details for that specific organization. Insights are limited to the scope of that organization.

Usage includes reads, writes, storage, data transfer, and premium features like private endpoints.

For metering for Astra Managed Clusters databases, see the Astra Managed Clusters pricing page.

Usage reports

Get enterprise usage reports

You can use the Astra Portal or the DevOps API to get usage details for your entire enterprise, specific organizations, or specific resources. For more information, see Manage your enterprise: Enterprise billing and usage.

Get organization usage reports

In the Usage reports section of an organization’s Billing page, you can view and download the organization’s monthly usage reports:

  1. In the Astra Portal header, click Settings.

  2. In the Settings navigation menu, make sure the enterprise/organization filter is set to the organization that you want to manage.

    If the organization belongs to an enterprise, you must filter on the enterprise, and then click the organization name in the Organizations list.

  3. In the Settings navigation menu, click Billing.

  4. In the Usage section, find the month for which you want to view a usage report.

  5. Click Usage reports, and then select one of the following:

    • View monthly usage (web): View usage history for the given month in your browser.

    • Download daily usage (CSV): Download daily usage history for the given month.

    • Download PCU allocation (CSV): Download a PCU usage report for the given month. This report is available only for organizations with PCU groups in months where PCU usage occurred. PCU usage isn’t included in other usage reports. PCU groups are for Astra DB Serverless databases only.

Usage reports contents

The daily usage report CSV file includes the following columns:

  • PRODUCT: The name of the Astra product or service generating usage. Possible values include serverless (Astra DB Serverless databases), managed_cluster (Astra Managed Clusters databases), pcu, or streaming (Astra Streaming tenants)

  • ORG_ID: The organization ID.

  • ORG_NAME: The organization name.

  • RESOURCE_ID: The ID of the resource generating usage, such as a database or streaming tenant.

  • RESOURCE_NAME: The resource name.

  • REGION: The region where the resource is deployed and generating usage.

  • CLOUD_PROVIDER: The cloud provider that hosts the given REGION.

  • CLASSIFICATION: The region pricing classification, such as standard or premium.

  • ZONE: Indicates if usage is coming from a specific zone, including na (North America), apac(Asia Pacific), or emea (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

  • CLUSTER_SIZE: If PRODUCT is serverless, then CLUSTER_SIZE is always empty. If PRODUCT is managed_cluster, then CLUSTER_SIZE is the workload capacity tier, such as c20 or d10.

  • AZ_COUNT: If PRODUCT is serverless, then AZ_COUNT is always 3 because these databases are triple replicated to three availability zones. If PRODUCT is managed_cluster, then AZ_COUNT is always empty regardless of actual replication.

  • USAGE_TYPE: The specific type of usage that was generated.

  • USAGE: The amount of usage generate.

  • USAGE_UNIT: The unit of measurement for USAGE, such as hour, gib, or million.

  • CURRENCY_TYPE: The currency type used for billing.

  • UNIT_PRICE: The price per unit of usage in the given CURRENCY_TYPE.

  • CALCULATED_COST: The total cost for an amount of USAGE during the given time period defined by the TIMESTAMP columns.

  • BREAKDOWN_START_TIMESTAMP: The beginning of the period for which usage was calculated.

  • BREAKDOWN_END_TIMESTAMP: The end of the period for which usage was calculated.

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