Cloud-native API Administration with Red Hat 3scale API Management

Procedure 7.2. Instructions

1. View the echo product, which points to the 3scale Echo API.

   1. In the 3scale Admin Portal, navigate to the Products page. Click echo.

   2. In the left pane, click Applications → Application Plans. The custom application plan is displayed.

   3. Click custom to access the settings page of the plan.

2. Update the custom application plan to include a setup fee of 5 USD, and a cost per month of 3 USD.

   1. Complete the Setup fee field with 5.00.

   2. Complete the Cost per month field with 3.00.

   3. Click Update Application plan to save the changes.

3. Update the custom application plan to charge 0.5 USD per request for the first 120 requests.

   1. Click custom to access the settings page of the plan.

   2. In the Metrics, Methods, Limits & Pricing Rules section, click Pricing (0) for the Hits metric row. The pricing rules are applied to the Hits metrics, which captures all paths.

   3. Click new pricing rule and complete the form:

      Field	Value
      From	1
      To	120
      Cost Per Unit	0.5

      Then, click Create pricing rule.

4. Update the custom application plan to charge 0.3 USD per request for the following 1000 requests.

   1. Click new pricing rule and complete the form:

      Field	Value
      From	121
      To	1121
      Cost Per Unit	0.3

      Then, click Create pricing rule.

5. Update the custom application to charge 0.1 USD per request from the 1122th request.

   1. Click new pricing rule and complete the form:

      Field	Value
      From	1122
      To	(blank)
      Cost Per Unit	0.1

      Then, click Create pricing rule.

      Important

      To verify that the pricing rules work as expected, you can use the invoice reports generated by 3scale API Management. Because the reports are generated monthly, you can not verify the pricing rules of this guided exercise immediately.