Monitor Subscription

The Subscription page in Sysdig Monitor presents information about your current subscription. It shows what options are enabled and provides insight into your usage for the month to date.

To access the Subscription page:

  1. Log in as administrator to Sysdig Monitor.

  2. Select Settings > Subscription via the user menu in the bottom left corner.

    Your current subscription information is displayed.

If you also purchased Sysdig Secure, you will be able to see its subscription details by clicking the “Go to Secure” button on the top right. Read about the content of that page in Secuure Subscription.

Subscription Details

Under Subscription Details, you can find:

  • Your product: Sysdig Monitor, or Sysdig Platform (Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor).
  • Your tier.
  • The contract billing cycle.
  • The type and number of reserved and on-demand resources included in your Sysdig subscription. Specifically regarding the Monitor product:
    • Host Agents
    • Time Series

Usage

Under the Subscription Details section, you can find the usage for each resource included in your subscription, depending on the product.

Platform subscriptions will have Monitor and Secure resources in their entitlement.

Monitor and Secure resources (related to both, depending on the Product and Tier):

Monitor resources:

Secure resources:

  • Compute Resources: Number of Compute Resources across all Cloud accounts. See Compute Resources.
  • Cloud Logs - Month to Date: Number of analyzed log events per month. See Cloud Logs.
  • Container as a Service usage: Container as a Service (CaaS) usage month to date (AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, and Azure Container Apps). Applicable to Secure only. See CaaS usage.
  • Sysdig Sage: Number of prompts submitted for the current month, over the available entitlement. For more details, see Sysdig Sage.

Host Agents

Host agents entitlement and usage is reported in two sections:

  • Host Agents - Current Usage
  • Active host agents deployment type overview

Current Usage

The section displays the number of currently connected agents, compared to the entitlement.

  • The bar on the left represents the agents included in the subscription, showing you how many slots you're currently using, compared to those that are available.

  • On the right, the on-demand bar shows you how many additional agents you can connect, on top of the reserved entitlement. If your contract doesn't include on-demand usage, this will be disabled, meaning that you can only fill the reserved available slots, after which, additional connections will be refused.

Active Host Agents Deployment Type Overview

This bar breaks down the currently deployed agents into different types:

  • Containerised: The number of agents running in a containerized environment.
  • Non-containerised - The number of agents running in a non-containerised environment.
  • Unspecified - The number of agents running in an unknown environment. Update Sysdig Agent to version 12.18.0 or later to receive environment information.

Agent Connections

Agents connect on a first-come, first-served basis. In the event of an over-subscription (more agents wanting to communicate than are licensed), they will attempt to reconnect on a periodic basis. Once an existing communicating instance goes down and disconnects, the next agent in the queue will connect.

When shutting down a host for any reason, the agent's license will not be immediately released. This permits the agent to retain its licensing slot for short outages or a reboot. The time-out interval can take up to 20 minutes, and if the connection has not been re-established within the interval the license will be released for use by the next host waiting to connect.

The distinction between reserved and on-demand agents is financial, not technical; when on-demand agents are used they perform exactly like reserved agents.