What are Requests, Bandwidth and Function Invocations?

Gatsby Hosting measures your usage for your workspace with three metrics:

• Requests
• Bandwidth
• Function Invocations

Requests

HTTP Requests are how your browser communicates with the internet. Anytime a browser requests a URL for your site, it also requests other resources needed to present the webpage. This includes HTML, images, JavaScript, and other kinds of files. Each file request counts toward the request limit for your workspace. For free plans, requests are counted over the duration of the current month (e.g. Jan. 1 - Jan. 31). For paid plans, requests are measured over the duration of your month-to-month billing cycle, including when paid annually.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred over a specified amount of time. Each plan has a Bandwidth allocation expressed in gigabytes (GB). For free plans, bandwidth is measured over the duration of the current month (e.g. Jan. 1 - Jan. 31). For paid plans, bandwidth is measured over the duration of your month-to-month billing cycle, including when paid annually.

Anytime a user visits your Gatsby Cloud site, some data may be transferred over the network to the user's browser. Every file the user downloads that is not retrieved from their browser cache contributes to the amount of bandwidth consumed for your organization.

Function Invocations

Functions on Gatsby Cloud are serverless functions that enable you to easily build dynamic functionality and integrations into your site without the hassle of maintaining extra infrastructure. Function invocations are counted any time a Gatsby Function is used, or a page is server-side rendered. For free plans, function invocations are counted over the duration of the current month (e.g. Jan. 1 - Jan. 31). For paid plans, function invocations are counted over the duration of your month-to-month billing cycle, including when paid annually.