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Billing service (EMR)

Important

To configure Billing services refer to Configuring Unravel Billing service.Billing Service

The Billing tab shows the charges of Unravel for its support for EMR. In EMR, Unravel supports tracking usage in instance hours.

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Generating billing report
  1. On Unravel UI, click manage-icon.png and select Unravel Billing.

  2. Click schedule.png and select a month to view the billing report. The following details are displayed:

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    Item

    Description

    1. Billing Plan

    On the left, this section displays the details of the billing plan.

    Plan

    pay-in-advance or pay-as-you-go plan.

    Start Date

    The start date of the plan.

    End Date

    The end date of the plan.

    Starting Credit

    Only shown when the plan is pay-in-advance. Indicates the amount of money paid in advance for the plan.

    2. Billing Trends

    In this section, the billing trends and details are displayed.

    Billing from - to

    The period for which the billing report is generated.

    Balance

    When the plan is pay-in-advance, this field shows either the amount deducted from credits or the outstanding amount after all the credit has been used. When the plan is pay-as-you-go, this field shows the outstanding amount.

    Pricing Plan

    A pre-negotiated plan. Either pay-in-advance or pay-as-you-go.

    Total Usage

    Total consumed Instance hours.

    Total Cost

    The total cost for the current billing period is based on the usage and the billing unit (instance hours).

    Beginning Credit

    In the case of a pay-in-advance plan, this is the credit balance at the beginning of the month.

    Remaining credit

    The remaining credit amount for the selected period.

    Outstanding Amount

    The amount to be paid for a current billing period. In the case of a pay-in-advance plan, this amount is shown only if the current bill amount has surpassed the available credit.

    Billing graph

    The billing trends over a period of time are graphically shown.

    In the case of pay-in-advance plans, this graph shows the trend of the remaining credits and outstanding amounts.

    In the case of pay-as-you-go plans, this graph shows the trend only for the outstanding amount.

    The outstanding amount is represented in orangebar.png bars and the remaining credits are represented in bluebar.png bars. You can hover over a bar to view the details of the remaining credits and outstanding amount. The Monthly Threshold is represented with a line. You can also select a section and zoom in to a section in the graph. Click Reset Zoom to zoom out of a section.

    3. Billing report

    The billing report is provided in a tabular format for each day.

    Note

    The daily billing report is generated on the next day (after the current day is over).

    Date

    The date on which the Unravel service is charged for usage.

    Clusters

    The total number of clusters monitored by Unravel, which is considered in the cost calculation for a day.

    Nodes

    The total number of nodes across the monitored clusters.

    Instance hours

    The total number of instance hours which are calculated from the nodes across the clusters.

    Cost

    The cost incurred per day, which is calculated based on the total number of instance hours.

Downloading the billing report
  1. On Unravel UI, click manage-icon.png and select Unravel Billing.

  2. From the lower right corner of the page, click download.png. The billing report is downloaded in CSV format.