Metering Management Overview¶
Metering Management collects and aggregates users’ resource consumption on EnOS Cloud, providing multi-dimensional metering reports for resource management and cost estimation.
Note
Metering Management is only available in Enterprise edition, not available in Lightweight edition.
Key Concepts¶
Metering Management involves the following key concepts.
- Resource: resources are the foundation for utilizing various EnOS services within an OU. Metering management uses different metering items to measure the consumption of resources for each service.
- Service: a service refers to the product, service, or functional module to which the metered resources belong. Metering items can be filtered by service to generate customized reports. According to the complexity of functionality and resource consumption, the services is divided into:
- Basic Services: the core functionalities in EnOS Cloud, such as device connectivity, with minimal system resource requirements.
- Advanced Services: the advanced functionalities in EnOS Cloud that involve complex data processing, analysis, and computations, with higher system resource demands.
- Metering Item: a metering item is a metric used to measure and calculate specific resource usage. Different types of metering items correspond to different units of measurement. Metering items can be categorized as:
- Basic Metering Items: the metering items that correspond to the basic services, with message count as the object of metering.
- Advanced Metering Items: the metering items that correspond to the advanced services, typically measuring resource consumption in terms of units per time.
- Metering Report: metering reports are data tables used to record and display metering information within a specified time period. They come in three time granularities: monthly, daily, and hourly. Metering reports will be generated by month. You can view and export the reports for the pervious month and earlier.
Main Features¶
In Metering Management, OU administrators can view and export metering data at the following 3 time granularities:
- Monthly Metrics Overview: gain a high-level overview of resource and service usage by viewing statistics for each resource and service usage for each month from a holistic perspective.
- Daily Metering Report: view the actual usage of each resource and service on a daily basis, timely discover the peak and fluctuation of resource usage, and perform real-time capacity planning and resource adjustment.
- Hourly Metering Details: obtain the usage details of each resource and service within the last 3 months, troubleshoot issues based on instance ID and hourly metering data, and better manage and control resource usage.