According to the official documentatio: "Setting the maximum to 1 instance **usually** keeps your instance hour usage within the free tier." However, please consider the important note: "*Important:* App Engine applies the max_instances setting on a best effort basis. *In some circumstances, App Engine may briefly exceed the limit you specify.*"
[1]. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managing-costs On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 3:35:55 PM UTC+1 ph0...@gmail.com wrote: > None of the older versions are running, and I have an instance limit, but > I still went ahead and deleted all the older versions. It's still happening. > > I'm pretty convinced AppEngine is miscalculating my usage... > On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 4:07:10 AM UTC-5 vladoi wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Did you stop serving the previously deployed versions of your GAE >> Application ? If you no longer require these versions you can delete the >> version by following our public official documentation [1] [2]: >> >> >> >> [1]. >> https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/getting-started/delete-tutorial-resources#deleting_app_versions >> >> [2]. https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/versions/delete. >> >> On Friday, December 11, 2020 at 8:57:20 PM UTC+1 ph0...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I don't think so, since again, the billing section on the AppEngine >>> Dashboard <https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine> generally takes >>> that into account, in my experience. But yes I've also verified that it is >>> F1. >>> Again last night, when I wrote this email at 3am, the counter was at >>> 24.5h right before the reset, but today I see a charge of $0.55. >>> >>> The annoying part is that there seems to be no way to actually see the >>> finalized quota usage to verify these costs. How can I make sure what >>> Google is charging me is the right amount if I can't even see the usage? Is >>> there some API that gives access to that which I'm missing? >>> >>> On Friday, December 11, 2020 at 12:30:12 PM UTC-5 jdfi...@cedreo.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, maybe it is due to your instance class. If I remember correctly >>>> one hour of an F2 is billed as two hours and F4 is billed as 4 hours. I >>>> think the base idea is that one hour represents one hour of F1. There is >>>> this part of the doc that helped us understand our cost when we are facing >>>> the same question: >>>> >>>> " *Important:* When you view your bill >>>> <https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/reports>, you will not >>>> see the names of the individual instance classes in your billing line >>>> items. Instead, you see instance hours from the "B" classes reported as >>>> "Backend Instances", and instance hours from the "F" classes reported as >>>> "Frontend Instances". The bill will apply the appropriate multiple of >>>> instance hours for each instance class you use. For example, if you use an >>>> F4 instance for one hour, you see "Frontend Instance" billing for four >>>> instance hours at the F1 rate." >>>> >>>> It is extracted from https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing. >>>> On Friday, December 11, 2020 at 9:04:14 AM UTC+1 ph0...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Every day, I look at the appengine quota page, an hour before it's >>>>> about to reset for the day, and it's sitting well below the 28h free-tier >>>>> limit, yet the next day, I check billing for the previous day and I have >>>>> ~1$ of charges, which at $0.05/hour, that means 20 hours of extra time. >>>>> So >>>>> unless my application somehow managed to start 20 instances in the last >>>>> hour (which isn't possible, the limit is 3), those numbers make no sense. >>>>> >>>>> I remember years ago it was possible to see the quota usage for >>>>> previous days, but it seems like that page doesn't even exist anymore, so >>>>> there's no way for me to verify how many frontend instance hours were >>>>> used >>>>> in previous days. But the charges I'm getting definitely do not make >>>>> sense. >>>>> I never pass 28 hours, yet I'm constantly getting charged every day for >>>>> "frontend instance". >>>>> >>>>> Is there any way to debug where these costs come from and what my >>>>> usage is? I'm not sure if GCP intentionally hides this information away, >>>>> all I can see is the billing cost per day, per SKU, but this still >>>>> doesn't >>>>> give me my quota usage, and it doesn't explain why I'm being charged even >>>>> after being below free tier usage. >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/becc0ef0-6c2e-4ad9-be41-7fc5688410cdn%40googlegroups.com.
