After you purchase Security Center, use the Billing and Cost Management console to view bill details and usage records, verify charges, analyze cost breakdowns, or perform financial reconciliation.
Prerequisites
Log on by using your Alibaba Cloud primary account or a RAM user that has been granted finance-related permissions.
View bill details
The Bill Details page in the Billing and Cost Management console displays the consumption details of all Alibaba Cloud products, including Security Center subscription orders and pay-as-you-go bills.
Go to the Expenses and Costs-Bill Details page in the Billing and Cost Management console.
In the search and filter area at the top of the page, set filter criteria to narrow down bill records. The following filter options are supported:
Filter
Description
Statistical Period
Recommended to select Billing Period.
Bill Generation Date
Switch between monthly view and daily view. The current month is displayed by default.
Product Name
Select a cloud product, such as Security Center.
Commodity Name
Select a specific item, such as a Security Center subscription plan or a pay-as-you-go instance.
Line Item Type
Filter orders by prepaid or postpaid type.
Resource Name /Instance ID
Search by resource name or instance ID.
Order/Bill Number
Search by Order ID.
Include Bills Whose Amount Payable Is 0
Select Yes or No from the drop-down list to specify whether to display records with an amount payable of 0.
After the page refreshes, verify that the Product Name column shows Security Center and only Security Center-related records appear in the list.
View the details of each bill record in the bill list, including Resource Purchase Account ID, Resource Purchase Account, Catalogue Gross Amount and Amount After Price Reduction.
NoteOrders whose Bill Type set to Subscription are Security Center subscription bills for core protection capabilities. Orders whose Bill Type is set to Pay-as-you-go are bills for the vulnerability fixing feature used on a pay-as-you-go basis. Use the expense type to quickly determine which type of bill to focus on.
Export bills
Select an export range, and then click OK. The system redirects to the Export Record page.
Current List: Exports only the bill data filtered on the Bill Details page.
Export Last 18 Months: Exports bill data from the past 18 months.
On the Export Record page, check the task progress. After the task status changes to Completed, click Download in the Actions column to save the CSV file to your local machine.
View usage details
View the detailed usage of pay-as-you-go features for Security Center, such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) scan count.
On the Bill Details page, click View Usage Details on the right side of the page title.
On the Usage Details page, set the following filter criteria:
Time Period: The data query period.
Commodity Name: Select Security Center (Pay-as-you-go).
Billable Item: Select a specific billing item, such as Agentic SOC, log storage capacity, advanced edition protection duration, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) scan count, or managed instance count.
Billable Item: Fixed value.
Click Export CSV. The system redirects to the Export Record page.
On the Export Record page, find the corresponding task. Click Download in the Actions column to save the file to your local machine.