The console puts plan quotas and actual usage in one place, so you always know how much you've used, how much is left, and where the bill comes from. Understand these metrics and you can adjust as needed and avoid surprise overages.
Key usage metrics
- Traffic: traffic consumed in the current billing cycle, against your plan's monthly allowance.
- Bandwidth: real-time or peak bandwidth, against your plan's bandwidth cap.
- Sites and forwards: used / total quota.
- Requests and hit rate: a read on acceleration — the higher the hit rate, the fewer origin fetches.
How the bill adds up
A bill is usually a fixed plan fee plus anything beyond your allowance. Within allowance, you pay the monthly plan fee; traffic or bandwidth over the cap is charged by the corresponding rules. The billing page itemizes each line and period for easy reconciliation.
Watching for overages
When usage nears your allowance, the console home page flags it. If your business keeps growing and regularly hits the cap, upgrading to a higher plan is more economical than repeated overages. You can also request an invoice from the billing page when needed.