vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
7. To submit your pricing plan and metering for review, click Request approval in the Metering approval section.







 Submitting resource usage to the IBM Cloud Usage Metering API 

To review how customers understand and experience your pricing plan, and validate that your metered plans are correctly configured, you must submit your resource usage. Submitting your resource usage includes creating your metering JSON, calling the Usage Metering API, and providing the evidence of your testing.



 Creating your metering JSON 

To submit your resource usage, you must develop a JSON file with your metering information. After you develop your metering JSON, you can submit your resource usage by calling the Usage Metering API. There are specific fields that you must include in the request body of your JSON file to make sure it contains all your metering information. For more information on the required fields and submitting usage records, see the [Usage Metering API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/usage-meteringreport-resource-usage).

To create the JSON that contains all your metering information, you must include the following fields in the request body:

resource_instance_id
plan_id
start
end
measured_usage

See the following JSON example that includes the required fields:

[
{
"start": 1485907200001,
"end": 1485910800000,
"region": "us-south",
"resource_instance_id": "crn:v1:bluemix:staging:database-service:us-south:a/1c8ae972c35e470d994b6faff9494ce1:793ff3d3-9fe3-4329-9ea0-404703a3c371::",
"plan_id": "da40662d-2f72-4a19-8c79-8c77cf285e17",
"measured_usage":
{
"measure": "QUERIES",
"quantity": 100
},
{
Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment that are included in the base cost per host of 36 USD. If you have 3 hosts, you have 3000 time-series included. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers. The following shows the calculation of the 700 additional time-series.

1200 + 1000 + 1500 - ( 31000 ) = 700

The result from adding the time series per host minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

700 additional time-series corresponds to tier 1. The price per host is 0.08 USD for up to 100K time-series per month.

700 * 0.08 USD = 56 USD

The total cost for additional time-series is 56 USD.



The total monitoring cost per month is 164 USD.

108 USD + 56 USD = 164 USD





 Billing sample 2: Unused time-series allotment 

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:



* 2 Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters with a total of 5 worker nodes running agents for orchestrated environments



* Host-1 generates 2000 custom metrics time-series
* Host-2 generates 100 custom metrics time-series
* Host-3 generates 500 custom metrics time-series
* Host-4 generates 100 custom metrics time-series
* Host-5 generates 200 custom metrics time-series





The billing calculation for the month is calculated as follows:



* Base cost per host

The price per host per month is 36 USD which includes up to 1K time-series (includes Prometheus, JMX, appchecks, and StatsD metrics) and 50 containers.

For 5 hosts, the total base cost is 180 USD.

5 * 36 USD = 180 USD
* Additional time-series cost

Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers.

2000 + 100 + 500 + 100 + 200 - ( 51000 ) = -1100

The result from adding the time series per host minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

You have 1100 more time-series available per your configuration.

The total cost for additional time-series is 0 USD.
![Checkbox icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/ff5860bfede49db3197c4bbba7f7123769bdc068/icons/checkbox-icon.svg) Add metrics to your pricing plan Add metrics to your usage-based pricing plan to determine how customers are charged. IBM Cloud console 
 ![Checkbox icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/ff5860bfede49db3197c4bbba7f7123769bdc068/icons/checkbox-icon.svg) Test and submit resource usage Review how customers understand and experience your pricing plan, and validate that your metered plans are correctly configured by enabling and submitting a usage test. This usage test includes creating your metering JSON, calling the Usage Metering API and submitting metering evidence. For more information, see [Usage Metering API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/usage-meteringreport-resource-usage). Development environment and documentation, IBM Cloud console 
 ![Checkbox icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/ff5860bfede49db3197c4bbba7f7123769bdc068/icons/checkbox-icon.svg) Review and submit the IBM Cloud's Digital Platform Reseller Agreement Review and submit the Digital Platform Reseller Agreement if you plan to offer paid plans, or upload your custom digital provider agreement to be reviewed and approved by IBM. IBM Cloud console 



For more information, see the following links:



* [Defining your pricing plan](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-service-pricing-info&interface=ui)
* [Add a pricing plan for your service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-svc-pricing&interface=ui)
Learn more about [Enterprise Savings Plan](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-committed-use) and [Managing subscriptions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-subscriptions). 
 <br><br> * View invoices and build your own reports<br><br><br> To manage and view your invoices, visit the [Invoices](https://cloud.ibm.com/billing/invoices) page from the billing and usage dashboard in the IBM Cloud console. See [Viewing your invoices](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-managing-invoices). You can also build your own reports by using the API and SDK that are available.<br><br><br><br> * [Usage Reports API/SDK](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/metering-reporting)<br> * [Enterprise Billing Units API/SDK](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/enterprise-apis/billing-unit).<br> * [Enterprise Usage Reports API/SDK](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/enterprise-apis/resource-usage-reports).<br><br><br> 







 Connect your network to IBM Cloud 

As the need for global reach and 24/7 operations of web applications increases, the need to host services in multiple cloud data centers increases too. Data centers across multiple locations provide resilience in the case of a geographic failure and bring workloads closer to globally distributed users, which reduces latency and increases perceived performance. The IBM Cloud network enables users to link workloads hosted in secure private networks across data centers and locations. Use the following checklist to review the available options and to connect your existing on-premises environments to IBM Cloud.



Table 5. Getting started tasks for connecting your network to IBM Cloud

 Task Description
All Code Engine users are required to have a Pay-as-you-Go account. Tutorials might incur costs. Use the Cost Estimator to generate a cost estimate based on your projected usage. For more information, see [Code Engine pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-pricing).



 Step 1: Setting up the Kafka event producer 

You can set up your Kafka message producer to send messages to Code Engine Kafka event subscriptions. Use your Code Engine Kafka event subscription to trigger applications or jobs when a Kafka message is received.

To get started, [create an Event Streams service instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/EventStreams?topic=EventStreams-getting-startedgetting_started_prereqs) for your event streaming service. While you can use the console or the CLI, the following steps describe how to set up the Event Streams event producer with the CLI.



1. Create a service instance for Event Streams. The name of the Event Streams CLI service is messagehub. For this example, create an Event Streams service instance that is named myeventstream.

ibmcloud resource service-instance-create myeventstream messagehub lite us-south
2. Create a service key to provide credentials to your service instance.

ibmcloud resource service-key-create myeventstream-key Manager --instance-name myeventstream

Example output

Creating service key of service instance myeventstream under account <user_account>...
OK
Service key crn:v1:bluemix:public:messagehub:us-south:a/e43abfcbd191404cb17ef650e9681dd3:c0736069-3f4a-438a-b614-6846877d692d:resource-key:4c8edfdb-abcd-abcd-abcd-abcdabcdabcd was created.

Name: myeventstream-key
Or, you can upload a custom digital provider agreement in .pdf, .doc, or .docx file format.

Custom digital provider agreements must be reviewed and approved by IBM, which increases the time it takes for you to complete the onboarding process. The uploaded files are scanned for viruses, which might take a few minutes to complete. If a virus is detected, it is recommended to run another virus scan on your file, and then try uploading it again.



 Digital provider agreement 

If you plan to offer free plans, it is required to review and submit the IBM Digital Provider Agreement. This legal agreement sets the terms and conditions under which providers can onboard and provide free products in IBM Cloud.

Complete the following steps to review and submit the IBM Digital Provider Agreement:



1. Go to Partner Center > Sell > My company.
2. Click Edit.
3. Choose I plan to offer free pricing plans from the Agreements section.
4. Click the IBM Digital Provider Agreement link to review the agreement.
5. Select I read and agree to the IBM Digital Provider Agreement, and click Save.







 Digital platform reseller agreement 

If you plan to offer paid, usage-based pricing plans, it is required to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement. This legal agreement sets the terms and conditions under which providers can onboard and sell products in IBM Cloud.

Complete the following steps to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement:



1. Go to Partner Center > Sell > My company.
2. Click Edit.
3. Choose I plan to offer usage-based pricing plans from the Agreements section.
4. Click the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement link to review the agreement.
5. Select I read and agree to the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement, and click Save.











 Adding pricing plans 

You can choose to add free and paid pricing plans. Ensure that you review and finalize all details of the pricing plan before you submit it. Changing a submitted pricing plan can take at least a full billing cycle to change, and you must open a support case to change a published pricing plan.
* Your financial officer needs to view usage for the entire enterprise so that they can track and recover costs for each department, but they don't need to create accounts or account groups. Assign them the Usage Reports Viewer role for the enterprise.
* Each department lead needs to view usage for their department, and they also need to create and manage accounts and account groups for their teams. Assign each department lead the Editor role for their department's account group.
* Each team lead needs to view their team's usage, but you want them to get department approval to add new accounts to their team. Assign each team lead the Usage Reports Viewer role for their team's account group. They can view usage from all accounts within the account group, but not the usage from the account groups of other teams in the department.



For detailed steps about assigning enterprise access, see [Assigning access for enterprise management](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/secure-enterprise?topic=secure-enterprise-assign-access-enterprise).





 Viewing enterprise usage in the console 



1. Log in to the enterprise account.
2. In the IBM Cloud® console, go to Manage > Billing and usage, and select Usage.

The Usage page displays the costs for all resource usage in the entire enterprise during the current month. Usage is organized according to your enterprise hierarchy, so costs are broken down by the accounts and account groups that are directly under the enterprise.

In the Support section, you can view the total support costs for all accounts within your enterprise. The starting credit reflects the monthly amount in your support subscription. If the support usage for the month was more than this amount, it's displayed as overage.

Usage information for classic infrastructure services is not included for the current billing period. However, it is included for previous billing periods, which you can view by selecting an earlier month from the Time frame menu. For more information, see [Viewing usage for your classic infrastructure resources](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-infra-usage).
3. To view usage within an account group, click the account group name in the table or in the Enterprise level menu.
* Compare the date of your invoice to the start and end dates of the promo code. If you applied the promo code after the invoice was issued, it was not applied to that month's invoice.
* If you didn't use the products that are impacted by the promo code before it expired, you don't receive the promotion credits.





After you complete these steps, if you still believe that the invoice amount is an error, create a support case. Go to the [Support Center](https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/supportcenter) and click Create a case.
* How do I apply a feature code?

Feature codes add extra capabilities in an account and are typically provided for educational initiatives or special events. To redeem your code, go to the [Account settings](https://cloud.ibm.com/account/settings) page in the console, and click Apply code. You can also apply your code to a new account by clicking Register with a code when you [sign up for a new account](https://cloud.ibm.com/registration).

You might be looking for information about promo codes and subscription codes, which are available for certain account types. For more information, see [Managing promotions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-applying-promo-codes) and [Applying subscription codes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-subscription_code).
* Why did my account get billed for additional services charges?

As the account owner, you're responsible for all charges that are incurred by users in your account, including invited users. Ensure that each user is assigned only the level of access that is required to complete their job, including the ability to create new instances that might incur extra charges in your account. For more information, see [Managing access to resources](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-assign-access-resources).

Resources and applications that are left running in an account are subject to charges based on the pricing and description of the product.
Estimated Average Query rates per Advanced (S, MS) plans: 10 QPS for reranked queries with two top-level text fields.



 Size Number of Docs* Price 

 X-Small**** Up to 50,000 docs total Starting at $500 per month 
 Small Up to 1M docs total Starting at $1,500 per month 
 Medium-Small Up to 2M docs total Starting at $3,000 per month 
 Medium Up to 4M docs total Starting at $5,000 per month 
 Medium-Large Up to 8M docs total Starting at $10,000 per month 
 Large Up to 16M docs total Starting at $15,000 per month 
 X-Large Up to 32M docs total Starting at $20,000 per month 
 XX-Large Up to 64M docs total Starting at $35,000 per month 
 XXX-Large Up to 100M docs total Starting at $45,000 per month 



X-Small is the smallest environment available, and is recommended for development and testing only.****

Moving from one level of Advanced to another does not require the creation of new instances. New instances are required if switching from an Advanced to a Premium plan. For information about upgrading from one tier of Advanced to another, see [Moving from one Advanced tier to another](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-upgrading-your-plan).

****Attributes of X-Small plans:



* 1 environment
* Up to 4 collections
* Free NLU enrichments**



Attributes of all other Advanced plans:



* 1 environment
* Up to 100 collections
* Free NLU enrichments**



Additional options:
[Custom Models](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-integrating-with-wks):
One Knowledge Studio model included. Additional models: $800 each
[Element Classification](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-element-classification)***: 500 pages included per month. Additional pages: $0.40 each
The tool is useful if you want to estimate the price of the selected VMware Shared resources together with other IBM Cloud resources that you might consider purchasing.





 Procedure to order VMware Shared On-demand 



1. In the VMware Solutions console, click the VMware Shared card in the Platforms section.
2. On the Create tab of the VMware Shared page, select On-demand.
3. Enter the virtual data center name and select a resource group.
4. Select a deployment topology according to your needs.
5. For data center location, click the Edit icon ![Edit icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/icons/edit-tagging.svg) and select the geography, site, and location to host the instance.
6. Select the network type.
7. Select the vCPU and RAM limits according to your requirements.
8. On the Summary pane, verify the configuration and estimated price before you place the order.
9. Click Create.







 Procedure to order VMware Shared Reserved 



1. In the VMware Solutions console, click the VMware Shared card in the Platforms section.
2. On the Create tab of the VMware Shared page, select Reserved.
3. Enter the virtual data center name and select a resource group.
4. Select a deployment topology according to your needs.
5. For data center location, click the Edit icon ![Edit icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/icons/edit-tagging.svg) and select the geography, site, and location to host the instance.
6. Select the network type.
7. Complete the resource reservation.
The page refreshes with a summary of the plan details. You can create up to four backup plans. All apply to the volumes with tags that match the backup policy. <br>For more information about options, see [Specify a backup plan](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-create-backup-policy-and-planbackup-plan-ui). 



3. Optionally, [estimate the costs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-create-backup-policy-and-planbackup-cost-estimator-ui) for your backups.
4. Click Create backup policy. The order summary side panel shows the backup policy and all plans that were created for it.







 Creating a backup plan in the UI 

You can schedule backups in your plan on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis by using predefined settings, or by way of a cron-spec expression. The following steps continue from [Creating a backup policy](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-create-backup-policy-and-planbackup-policy-create-ui) and describe the backup plan side panel.



1. From the Plan side panel, enter a name for the plan (for example, daily-dallas-vol1). The plan name must be unique within the policy.
2. Specify the Frequency. Select one of the following options from the list.



* Daily



* For a Daily plan, enter the starting time (UTC) in hours and minutes, Coordinated Universal Time. For example, 12 noon is 12:00. Local time conversion is automatically provided on the screen, for example, 12 PM Central Daylight Time.



* Weekly



* For a Weekly plan, select the days of the week that you want backups to run. For example, you can select Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Specify the starting time in the same manner as a Daily plan.



* Monthly



* For a Monthly plan, select the day of the month that you want backups to run.
If you manage your invoices through the IBM Console, you can see the invoice status by clicking Manage > Billing and usage, and selecting Invoices. When the invoice is paid, the status is Closed. If your invoices are managed through the [IBM Invoices website](https://www.ibm.com/invoices), it's paid when the status is Settled.
* How do I add subscription credit to my account?

After you purchase a subscription, you'll receive an email with a subscription code that adds the credit to your account. To apply the subscription code, go to [Account settings](https://cloud.ibm.com/account/settings), and click Apply code. You can also apply your code to a new account by clicking Register with a code when you [sign up for a new account](https://cloud.ibm.com/registration). For more information, see [Managing subscriptions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-subscriptions).

You might be looking for information about promo codes and feature codes. For more information, see [Managing promotions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-applying-promo-codes) and [Applying feature codes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-codes).
* What does the IN_PROGRESS status mean when I apply a subscription code?

When you apply a subscription code to a Pay-As-You-Go account, the status of the subscription might be IN_PROGRESS. This status indicates that your account must be reviewed to complete your order. When you see this status, contact the IBM Cloud Sales representative who helped you with the order.
* Can I pay the total spending commitment up-front or quarterly?

Yes! By default, you're billed monthly for your subscriptions. If you'd like to pay up-front or quarterly, contact [IBM Cloud Sales](https://www.ibm.com/cloud?contactmodule).
* Can I spend more or less than my monthly commitment?
3. Select the Billing service, and then select the Administrator role.
4. Click Review.
5. Click Add to add your policy configuration to your policy summary.
6. Click Assign.







 Step 7: Assign users in child accounts access to create resources 

Before you begin, make sure that you switch to the account where you want to create the resource. In this case, switch to the Print account. If you want users in your account to create resources from the catalog and assign them to a resource group, you must assign two types of access policies.



* Assign one access policy with viewer role or higher on the resource group.
* Assign one access policy with editor or administrator role on the service.



Complete the following steps to assign the required access:



1. In the IBM Cloud console, go to Manage > Access (IAM), and select Users.
2. Click the user's name from the list.
3. Click Access > Assign access.
4. Select the service that you want to assign the user access to.



* If you want the user to be able to create any service, select All Identity and Access enabled services.
* If you want to assign the user access to a specific service, select it from the list.



5. Select the resource group that you want to assign the user access to.
6. Select the location.
7. Select the viewer role or higher from the list of platform access roles.
8. (Optional) Select the reader role or higher from the list of service access roles.
9. Select the viewer role or higher from the list of resource group access roles.
10. Click Review.
11. Click Add to add your policy configuration to your policy summary.
12. Click Assign.







 Step 8: View usage from all accounts 



1. Log in to the Example Corp enterprise account.
2. In the IBM Cloud console, go to Manage > Billing and usage, and select Usage.

The Usage page displays the costs for all usage in your enterprise, which is broken down by account and account group.
Then, click the Edit icon ![Edit icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/d7287ec7418d843dbd7caf286d842c439df6979e/direct-link//images/edit.png) in the upper right of the page.

If you modify the speed or routing option, the pricing changes. Any updated charges take effect during the next billing cycle.

2. Read and agree to the Direct Link prerequisites.
3. Click Save for your changes to take effect.



Configuration updates start automatically after you click Save. Notice that the gateway changes to Configuring state in the Direct Link table, followed by Provisioned when the update is completed.