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This document describes how to purchase a TMP instance.

Prerequisite

You have signed up for a Tencent Cloud account and completed identity verification.

Pay-as-You-Go

1. Log in to the TMP purchase page and configure the following instance information.

   Item	Description
   Billing Mode	Select “pay-as-you-go”.
   Region	Select the region where your business needs to be deployed. Note Tencent Cloud services in different regions cannot communicate with each other over the private network; for example, a service in the Guangzhou region cannot report data to a TMP instance in the Shanghai region over the private network. Once an instance is purchased, the region cannot be changed. Therefore, you need to select the region with caution.
   Availability Zone	Select an AZ supported by the region.
   Network	VPC is supported. We recommend you choose the same VPC in the same region as your monitoring target. For more information, see Network Environment.
   Data Retention Period	Select the data retention period. In the pay-as-you-go billing mode, fees are charged based on the daily reported metric data volume and the data retention period. For more information, see Product Pricing/a>.
   Instance Name	Enter an instance name.
   Grafana Password/Confirm Password	Enter the password of Grafana that comes with the instance. The account is `admin` by default. Note The password must begin with a letter or digit and contain at least one special symbol (@$!%*#?&), and its length should be between 6 and 24.
   Tag	Enter a tag for the instance (optional).
   Validity Period	Select the validity period of the instance.

2. Read and indicate your consent to related terms of agreement, and then click Buy Now.

3. On the payment page, select a payment method and pay.

4. You can enter the instance list page after the purchase. The instance will be in Creating status, and you can use it after around 3-5 minutes when its status changes to Running.

Subsequent Operations

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