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Metering

meshStack imports metering data from GCP Cloud Billing data BigQuery Export. Any data that was exported to the BigQuery dataset before the start of the month in which meshStack GCP metering was enabled will not be collected.

meshStack also periodically collects the currently active projects in order to apply the per tenant fee.

Configuration​

Connection information and metering behavior can be configured via the Platform Metering Configuration.

Billing Data Import​

The data is collected incrementally from the exported billing data by filtering by the export_time attribute. Any entries with cost_type tax are ignored in the metering process. The monthly totals are calculated by aggregating by the invoice.month attribute.

Configuring Seller Information​

If you would like to see the GCP costs attributed to a seller in the chargeback statments, a product needs to be created manually in the meshcloud Product Catalog. This product should have a resourceType of sellerInfo and should be scoped to a platformType of Gcp. An example is shown below.

{
    "resourceType": "sellerInfo",
    "displayName": "GCP Seller Info",
    "scope": {
        "platformType": "Gcp",
        "location": null,
        "platformInstance": null,
        "localProjectId": null
    },
    "usageTypes": [],
    "description": "",
    "sellerId": "GCP",
    "sellerProductGroup": null,
    "@metadata": {
        "@collection": "Products",
        "Raven-Java-Type": "io.meshcloud.kraken.core.metering.Product"
    }
}

Additional Filter​

Filter the costs meshStack collect via the Additional Filter option.

Example for a filter for projects in organization 632614034120 and folder 493343334220:

and STARTS_WITH(project.ancestry_numbers, '/632614034120/493343334220')