When you start using the VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service, you subscribe to the service for a trial period. When your trial subscription ends, you can use the free VMware Cloud core features in the service or upgrade to a premium subscription.
You can view your subscription status and upgrade your subscription in the Subscriptions page.
Trial Subscription
When you start using the VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service, you enter a free trial subscription period of 30 days. During this period, you can use all the features in the service. This subscription has a log retention period of 10 days and the following data limits:
- VMware Cloud on AWS users - 50 GB per day
- Non-VMware Cloud on AWS users - 15 GB per day
Free Subscription
After the trial period, the VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service switches to a free subscription that includes the VMware Cloud core features. You are not charged for these features.
The following table lists the features included in this subscription:
| Feature Category | Feature | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Log platform | Dashboard creation and sharing | Yes |
| Usage statistics and telemetry | Yes | |
| Real-time alerts | Yes | |
| Webhook and email notifications | Yes | |
| Role-based access control | Yes | |
| Metric extraction and forwarding | Yes | |
| Log export | Yes | |
| Log grouping and reduction | Yes | |
| Log comparison and trends | Yes | |
| Log agent management | Yes | |
| Public query APIs | Yes | |
| Log forwarding to on-premises and SaaS destinations | Yes | |
| Log processing (filtering, masking, and tagging) | Yes | |
| Log archiving | No | |
| Log partitions | No | |
| Live tail | No | |
| Log sources | VMware Cloud on AWS audit and activity logs | Yes |
| VMware Cloud on AWS events and alarms | Yes | |
| VMware Cloud on AWS NSX-T firewall logs | Total 1 GB per day | |
| VMware Cloud Services Platform audit logs | ||
| VMware on-premise product logs | ||
| Non-VMware logs (public cloud, apps, containers, and so on) | ||
| Content packs | VMware Cloud on AWS audit log content packs | Yes |
| VMware log content packs (vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, and so on) | No | |
| Non-VMware log content packs (AWS, Microsoft, and so on) | No | |
| Log retention | Query-able retention in platform | 7 days |
| Analytics | KB insights | No |
Except for audit logs, activity logs, events, and alarms, this subscription consumes a total of 1 GB of logs per day for VMware Cloud on AWS users and 5 GB for other users. Warning messages appear when your daily data limit reaches 75% and 100%. Crossing the threshold limit of 1 GB or 5 GB stops the flow of logs into the VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service. To use all the features of the service, you can upgrade to a premium subscription.
For information about the VMware Cloud on AWS audit events collected and analyzed by VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US), see Audit Logs for VMware Cloud on AWS.
Premium Subscription
To access all the features in the VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service, you can upgrade to a full-time premium subscription.
- Expand the main menu and navigate to .
- Select a subscription of your choice.
- To select an on-demand subscription, under On- Demand Plan, click Activate.
When you activate this subscription, you are billed according to your data usage. To view the billing criteria for the subscription, click View Rate Card.
- To create your own customized subscription plan, under Customized Plan, click Build Your Plan. To view the billing criteria for this plan, click View Rate Card.
When you choose to build a customized plan, you are redirected to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager. While configuring the quantity and term for the plan, you can select your requirements.
For any excess consumption beyond the selected commitment plans, you are charged according to the on-demand plan.Requirement Description Ingestion Select the log volume and commitment plan for ingestion. You are charged based on the volume of logs flowing into VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US). Indexed Storage Select the log volume, retention period, and commitment plan for indexed storage. You are charged based on the volume of logs stored in indexed partitions. You are not charged for executing queries. Indexed storage is suitable for short-term storage (up to 30 days) and frequent querying with quick results.
Non-indexed Storage Select the log volume, retention period, and commitment plan for non-indexed storage. You are charged based on the volume of logs stored in non-indexed partitions and the volume of logs examined when queries are executed. Non-indexed storage is suitable for long-term storage (up to 7 years) and infrequent querying.
Tip: Commitment plans provide a discounted rate based on the commitment period (1 year or 3 years) and retention period.
- To select an on-demand subscription, under On- Demand Plan, click Activate.
Log volumes for VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) are tracked in alignment with your billing cycle. The log volume shown on your bill is the entirety of your log volume during the billing period.
For more information about billing, see Billing & Subscriptions in Using VMware Cloud.
For information about the pricing, see Pricing page.
