The NetApp BlueXP observability pricing model is based on which parameter?

• A. Number of managed units
• B. Number of logging intervals
• C. Frequency of metric ingestion
• D. Capacity of metrics that are ingested

Answer: (A)

In BlueXP observability, the pricing is driven by how extensive your observed environment is—the number of managed units. Each resource that BlueXP monitors counts as one unit toward the price, so expanding the set of managed resources directly increases cost. This framing stays separate from how often you collect data or how much data you store.

The other factors—how frequently you log data, how often you ingest metrics, or how much metric capacity you store—affect data volume and throughput, not the base per-resource pricing unit. So the correct approach is to price by the number of managed units, not by logging intervals, ingestion frequency, or metric capacity.