Monitor HSU usage and alerts
Track your Harness Subscription Unit (HSU) consumption so you know how much capacity remains before your workloads need more. Harness updates consumption continuously and notifies you as you approach your limit.
Before you begin
- A Harness account: Go to Sign up for Harness to create one.
- HSU familiarity: Go to Harness Flex Pricing to understand how modules consume HSUs.
View your HSU balance
- Navigate to Account Settings.
- Select Subscriptions.
The Subscriptions page shows your active, provisioned HSUs along with the following:
- Your current plan
- HSUs consumed and HSUs remaining for the current period
- A usage breakdown by module
- Consumption trends over time
Harness reflects consumption on this page shortly after an activity completes, so you do not have to wait for a daily or monthly rollup to see the effect of a pipeline run.
Understand usage notifications
Harness emails Account Administrators as consumption crosses each of the following thresholds. Each notification gives you time to add capacity before your workloads reach the limit.
| Usage threshold | What it means |
|---|---|
| 80% | Review your usage and plan for additional capacity if needed. |
| 90% | You are nearing your HSU limit. |
| 100% | You have reached your HSU limit. Go to Harness Flex Pricing to review how Harness handles usage beyond your limit. |
Harness sends each threshold notification once per billing cycle.
Notifications go to Account Administrators rather than to every user. If you do not receive them, confirm your role and check the Subscriptions page directly for your current consumption.
Start a purchase
- Navigate to Account Settings.
- Select Subscriptions.
- Click Purchase HSUs.
Harness opens the checkout flow. Go to Purchase HSUs to complete the purchase.
Purchasing HSUs ends your Free plan immediately and forfeits your remaining Free HSUs. Go to Plan changes and rate cards to review what changes before you continue.
Troubleshooting
My Harness Subscriptions page does not reflect a pipeline I just ran
Harness reflects consumption shortly after an activity completes, so refresh the Subscriptions page. If usage is still missing after a few minutes, confirm the pipeline finished rather than remaining in progress, then contact Harness Support.
I did not receive a Harness HSU usage notification before my allowance ran out
Usage notifications are emailed to Account Administrators at 80, 90, and 100 percent of your allowance, once per threshold per billing cycle. Confirm that your account role receives them and check your spam folder, then review the Subscriptions page directly when you plan a large increase in workload.
Next steps
Review your consumption trend against your planned workload so you buy the right amount of capacity in a single purchase.
- Go to Purchase HSUs to add capacity.
- Go to HSU Calculator to estimate monthly consumption.