Retrieving the utilization report¶
Metered utilization is relatively straightforward in the MetalCloud. All resources are utilized on-demand. Some on-demand utilization charges can be overriten by subscriptions such as server subscriptions (rezervations) which lower costs in sustanined utilization scenarios.
To access the report access the Billing section (infrastructure Editor > Billing):
Click on the Utilization Report (infrastructure Editor > Billing > Utilization report)
This opens up the utilization report for the current billable account and by default shows totals for all of the infrastructures of the billable user.
The Detailed utilization report¶
To drill-down to see more information about each infrastructure in particular click on Detailed utilization report infrastructure Editor > Billing > Detailed Utilization report)
Select the Infrastructure owner from the dropdown to view the infrastructures billed to that user. The dropdown is populated with aditional users to which the current user is added as delegate. This allows a single finance department or in reseller situations, a single company to have access to multiple utilization reports of multiple commercial entities.
Select the time interval by clicking ont he dates below and scroll to the desired infrastructure.
This report shows the exact utilization of each on-demand asset. Instances can be covered by “rezervations” which are not shown here.
If a server configuration has changed at any given time there will be separate lines for the same instance name.
Viewing server subscriptions (reservations)¶
To view which Subscriptions apply click on the Utilization Report (infrastructure Editor > Billing > Utilization report) and then on the Server Subscriptions. (infrastructure Editor > Billing > Utilization report> Server Subscriptions)
These subscriptions will override the pricing of the on-demand instances they match. For example this subscription will be valid for a period of one year and will automatically renew at the end of that year. Every month a separate charge will be added to the invoice.
The price will depending on the rezervation pricing in place at the time of the creation of the reservation. Rezervations are not affected by on demand pricing changes.
Automating chargeback or billing in reselling scenarios¶
To automate the chargeback or billing in a reseller scenario use the resource_utilization_detailed() API function to retrive the utilization report in a JSON format.
Users can also retrieve the current pricing using the prices() function.
Reffer to the API for more information.
Example detailed utilization summary json:
{
"detailed_report": {
"3668": {
"data_lake": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.00000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-01T14:21:05Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "2592000",
"measurement_unit": "seconds",
"product_id": 8,
"product_label": "data-lake-8",
"product_subdomain": "data-lake-8.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "4261",
"resource_utilization_gbytes": 0,
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T13:10:05Z"
}
],
"shared_drive":[
{
"cost": "0.23354152",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.00347222",
"end_timestamp": "2016-01-25T09:54:39Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": 3600,
"measurement_unit": "seconds",
"product_id": 779,
"product_label": "new-shared-drive",
"product_subdomain": "new-shared-drive.test.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity: "242136",
"shared_drive_size_mbytes": 51200,
"start_timestamp": "2016-01-22T14:39:04Z"
}
],
"drive": [
{
"cost": "1.11383813",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.01601563",
"drive_size_mbytes": 41000,
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-04T10:31:03Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "3600",
"measurement_unit": "seconds",
"product_id": 3727,
"product_label": "drive-3727",
"product_subdomain": "drive-3727.new-drive-array.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "250369",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T12:58:15Z"
}
],
"instance": [
{
"cost": "7.25925278",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.31000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-02T12:23:00Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "3600",
"measurement_unit": "seconds",
"product_id": 2416,
"product_label": "instance-2416",
"product_subdomain": "instance-2416.new-instance-array.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "84301",
"server_type_id": null,
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T12:58:00Z"
}
],
"subnet": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.00000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-04T10:30:53Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "3600",
"measurement_unit": "seconds",
"product_id": 6378,
"product_label": "subnet-6378",
"product_subdomain": "subnet-6378.wan.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "250376",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T12:57:58Z",
"subnet_prefix_size": 64,
"subnet_type": "ipv6"
}
]
},
"network_report": {
"3688": {
"data_lake": {
"download": {
"cost": 0,
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"quantity": 0,
"metered_waypoints": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.00000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-09T08:11:39Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "3600",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"product_id": 8,
"product_label": "data-lake-8",
"product_subdomain": "data-lake-8.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "0.0000",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T13:10:05Z"
}
]
},
"upload": {
"cost": 0,
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"quantity": 0,
"metered_waypoints": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.06000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-09T08:11:39Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "3600",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"product_id": 8,
"product_label": "data-lake-8",
"product_subdomain": "data-lake-8.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "0.0000",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T13:10:06Z"
}
]
}
},
"network": {
"download": {
"cost": 0,
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"quantity": 0,
"metered_waypoints": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.00000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-04T10:30:54Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "10800",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"product_id": 8381,
"product_label": "wan",
"product_subdomain": "wan.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "0.0000",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T12:57:59Z"
}
]
},
"upload": {
"cost": 0,
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"quantity": 0,
"metered_waypoints": [
{
"cost": "0.00000000",
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"cost_per_unit": "0.06000000",
"end_timestamp": "2016-02-04T10:30:54Z",
"is_reservation": "0",
"measurement_period": "10800",
"measurement_unit": "gbytes",
"product_id": 8381,
"product_label": "wan",
"product_subdomain": "wan.d-lake.1.integration.bigstep.io",
"quantity": "0.0000",
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-01T12:57:59Z"
}
]
}
}
}
},
"reservation_installments": {
"server_types": [
{
"cost": 119.81,
"cost_currency": "GBP",
"created_timestamp": "2016-02-09T11:17:39Z",
"end_timestamp": "2016-03-09T11:17:38Z",
"server_type_name": "FMCI 4.8",
"server_type_reservation_id": 60,
"start_timestamp": "2016-02-09T11:17:39Z"
}
]
},
"infrastructures": {
"3688": {
"infrastructure_id": 3688,
"infrastructure_label": "d-lake",
"infrastructure_service_status": "deleted"
}
},
"end_timestamp": "2016-11-01T00:00:00Z",
"start_timestamp": "2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}