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Metering

meshStack supports metering and billing for most common OpenStack versions. For fine-granular metering and best-performance, we recommend the use of OpenStack Panko for OpenStack Releases Pike and later.

Prerequisites

• OpenStack admin user with suitable read-only permissions for all projects
• OpenStack APIs are accessible by meshStack metering collector components
• OpenStack Panko (optional, but recommended): OpenStack Pike or later
  • Panko must be configured to emit & record suitable events
  • note: Panko can also be used with suitable patches on older OpenStack releases
  • Contact us for details

Supported Resources

Resources with the following traits are addressable in the Product Catalog. Operators can use the traits of these resources to define fine-granular product and pricing rules.

Neutron - Router

Dhall Type

Example

let RouterResourceTraits =
    {-
        This type has no traits. However you can still create products charging for the resource's existence.
    -}
      {}

let example
    : RouterResourceTraits
    = {=}

Neutron - Load Balancer

Dhall Type

Example

let LoadBalancerResourceTraits =
    {-
      listeners:
        Number of load balancer listeners

      operatingStatus:
        Operating status of the load balancer. One of ONLINE, OFFLINE, DEGRADED, ERROR, NO_MONITOR.

      pools:
        Number of load balancer backend pools

      provider:
        The loadbalancer provider
    -}
      { listeners : Optional Integer
      , operatingStatus : Optional Text
      , pools : Optional Integer
      , provider : Optional Text
      }

let example
    : LoadBalancerResourceTraits
    = { listeners = Some +1
      , operatingStatus = Some "OFFLINE"
      , pools = Some +1
      , provider = Some "octavia"
      }

Cinder - Volume Snapshot

Dhall Type

Example

let VolumeSnapshotResourceTraits =
    {-
      availabilityZone:
        Availability zone of the volume snapshot

      replicationStatus:
        Replication status of the volume

      status:
        Status of the volume snapshot, see https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v3/#volume-snapshots-snapshots

      volumeSize:
        Size of the volume snapshot in GiB
    -}
      { availabilityZone : Optional Text
      , replicationStatus : Optional Text
      , status : Text
      , volumeSize : Integer
      }

let example
    : VolumeSnapshotResourceTraits
    = { availabilityZone = Some "eu-west"
      , replicationStatus = Some ""
      , status = "available"
      , volumeSize = +10
      }

Neutron - Floating IP

Dhall Type

Example

let FloatingIpResourceTraits =
    {-
        This type has no traits. However you can still create products charging for the resource's existence.
    -}
      {}

let example
    : FloatingIpResourceTraits
    = {=}

Cinder - Volume

Dhall Type

Example

let VolumeResourceTraits =
    {-
      availabilityZone:
        Availability zone of the volume

      replicationStatus:
        Replication status of the volume

      size:
        Size of the volume in GiB

      status:
        Status of the volume, see https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v3/#volumes-volumes

      type:
        Type of the volume
    -}
      { availabilityZone : Optional Text
      , replicationStatus : Optional Text
      , size : Integer
      , status : Text
      , type : Optional Text
      }

let example
    : VolumeResourceTraits
    = { availabilityZone = Some "eu-west"
      , replicationStatus = Some ""
      , size = +10
      , status = "in-use"
      , type = Some "ssd"
      }

Glance - Image

Dhall Type

Example

let ImageResourceTraits =
    {-
      service:
        The Glance backend service storing the image.

      size:
        The size of the image in GiB.

      status:
        Image status, see https://docs.openstack.org/glance/pike/user/statuses.html
    -}
      { service : Optional Text, size : Optional Integer, status : Text }

let example
    : ImageResourceTraits
    = { service = Some "cinder", size = Some +10, status = "active" }

Nova - Server

Dhall Type

Example

let VirtualMachineResourceTraits =
    {-
      disk:
        Virtual machine disk size in GiB

      diskEphemeral:
        Virtual machine ephemeral disk size in GiB

      diskRoot:
        Virtual machine root disk size in GiB

      flavor:
        Name of the flavor (not id)

      ramMb:
        RAM size of the virtual machine in MiB

      state:
        Virtual machine state

      vcpu:
        Number of virtual CPUs
    -}
      { disk : Optional Integer
      , diskEphemeral : Optional Integer
      , diskRoot : Optional Integer
      , flavor : Optional Text
      , ramMb : Optional Integer
      , state : Text
      , vcpu : Optional Integer
      }

let example
    : VirtualMachineResourceTraits
    = { disk = Some +20
      , diskEphemeral = Some +20
      , diskRoot = Some +20
      , flavor = Some "v4.large"
      , ramMb = Some +1024
      , state = ""
      , vcpu = Some +4
      }