Sl.no | Scenario | Description | Licensing Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Multiple OpenTelemetry services | Several services send traces (for example, Auth, Payment, Order). | The traces you store in AppLogs are billed. |
2 | High traffic, many spans | More requests create more spans, which implies more trace data gets stored and billed in AppLogs. For example, if your service handles 100 requests per minute, and each request generates five spans, that’s 500 spans per minute. Assuming each span is 2KB, the total trace volume is: 500 spans × 2KB/span = 1000KB/min (≈ 1MB/min) | The license usage will be 1MB per minute in AppLogs. Adding more services does not increase license costs. |
3 | No traces stored | No trace generated | No traces stored implies no cost. |
4 | Mixed: APM + OTel service | Service A uses APM Insight; Service B uses OpenTelemetry. | Service A consumes an APM license, while Service B only contributes to license usage based on the spans it stores. |
5 | Many services, low volume | Consider 10 microservices that send a few spans each. | The licensing depends only on the total number of stored spans, not the number of services. |
6 | OTel metrics only | OpenTelemetry metrics sent without trace data. | The license depends on the total metrics stored. |