Licensing for Kubernetes monitoring (old)

Licensing for Kubernetes monitoring (old)


  1. This article contains the licensing model for the customers who signed up before August 2024.
  2. Check out this article for more information on the new licensing pattern. Note that the new licensing model applies to users who signed up after August 2024.
The main Kubernetes cluster is considered one basic monitor. For the other components, the licensing is done as follows: 

 

Component
Licensing
Nodes
1 monitor consumes two basic licenses
Pods
5 monitors consume one basic license
Containers
5 monitors consume one basic license
Services
5 monitors consume one basic license
DaemonSets
5 monitors consume one basic license
Jobs
5 monitors consume one basic license
Horizontal Pod Scaler (HPA)
5 monitors consume one basic license
Controllers
5 monitors consume one basic license
ReplicaSets
5 monitors consume one basic license
StatefulSets
5 monitors consume one basic license
Deployments
5 monitors consume one basic license
Persistent Volume Claim (PVC)
5 monitors consume one basic license
Persistent Volumes (PV)
5 monitors consume one basic license
ConfigMaps, Endpoints, and Ingress
Free license 

For example, consider a Kubernetes set up having 5 nodes, 200 pods, 51 deployments, 53 ReplicaSets, 40 DaemonSets, and 200 containers. This would consume a total of 121 basic monitors. The split-up will be like the following:
  1. The main Kubernetes cluster - one basic monitor
  2. 5 nodes - 10 basic monitors
  3. 200 pods - 40 basic monitors
  4. 51 deployments - 11 basic monitors
  5. 53 ReplicaSets - 11 basic monitors
  6. 40 DaemonSets - 8 basic monitors 
  7. 200 containers - 40 basic monitors 
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