CloudStack Metering Working with the Usage Data. Tariq Iqbal Senior

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1 CloudStack Metering Working with the Usage Data Tariq Iqbal Senior

2 About Me Involved with CloudStack before donation to Apache Built and deployed CloudStack / CloudPlatform based clouds for Enterprises and Service Providers globally - SunGard, Ascenty Specialise in integrating CloudStack with Business Support and Operational Support systems, which include: CloudPortals (including Payment Gateways, Fraud Control solutions) CRM/ERP Systems SAPB/1, Salesforce.com Monitoring Solutions Nagios, Splunk, Zenoss Ticketing Systems ServiceDesk,

3 About ShapeBlue ShapeBlue are expert builders of public & private clouds. They are the leading global independent CloudStack / CloudPlatform integrator & consultancy First to offer professional 24x7x365 support of Apache CloudStack and now CSForge ShapeBlue is absolutely one of the top experts on deploying CloudStack. Great company and very deep skill set

4 Overview CloudStack Usage CloudStack Configuration Usage Data Generation Usage Data Access Customer Use Cases

5 Usage Requirements Organisations need to be able to meter their cloud's consumption to: Monetize the cloud offerings by charging for usage Report on the cloud s resource usage for monitoring/capacity planning Majority of organisations already have existing BSS/OSS and just need access to the usage data Organisations tend to have different billing criteria/charging models and require access to usage data for their specific needs

6 Usage in CloudStack today CloudStack does not offer any native usage monitoring or billing/chargeback capability Root Admin can view current System Capacity Domain Admin and Users can view VM statistics

7 Usage Server CloudStack includes a Usage Server: Optional Component Separately installed service called cloudstack-usage Runs once a day (Default) Creates aggregated usage records for the various resources consumed in CloudStack The usage records are stored in a separate database called cloud_usage

8 Usage Server Configuration

9 Usage Server Configuration Examples

10 CloudStack Events As CloudStack resources are created, consumed and destroyed, appropriate Event records are created in cloud.usage_events There are 110 different events. Full list in the Programmer Guide Network usage is the only exception which doesn't use Events

11 Usage Record Generation 1) CloudStack events are logged into cloud.usage_event table 2) The cloudstack_usage job gets a list of the latest usage events 3) Inserts these events into cloud_usage.usage_events table 4) Parses cloud_usage.usage_event and populates Helper tables 5) Helper table data used to populate cloud_usage.cloud_usage table with aggregation range wise data

12 Usage Types

13 Usage Types API:

14 Usage Records show the amount of resources consumed by guest instances. The 8 Usage Record formats are: Allocated & Running VMs Network Usage IP Address Disk Volume Template, ISO and Snapshot Load Balancer or Port Forwarding Network Offering VPN User Details of the Usage Record formats can be found in the Developers Guide Usage Records

15 VM Usage Record Format

16 Usage Record Example To Create, Start, Stop and Restart a VM:

17 CloudStack Usage Data Accessing Usage Data

18 CloudStack API The usage records can be accessed through the CloudStack API This is best done using the authentication port 8080 and requires both the API Key and Secret Key and for the API request to be signed CloudStack provides the following Root Admin API calls and responds with XML and JSON responses: listusagetypes lists available Usage Types listusagerecords - provides Usage records for a date range generateusagerecords - asynchronous usage record generation

19 ListUsageRecords API The base API request is: yyy-mm-dd&enddate=yyyy-mm-dd&signature Optional request parameters:

20 ListUsageRecords Response <listusagerecordsresponse> <count>1</count> <usagerecord> <account>user5</account> <accountid>10004</accountid> <domainid>1</domainid> <zoneid>1</zoneid> <description>i-3-4-wc running time (Service Offering: 1) (Template: 3)</description> <usage> Hrs</usage> <usagetype>1</usagetype> <rawusage> </rawusage> <virtualmachineid>4</virtualmachineid> <name>i-3-4-wc</name> <offeringid>1</offeringid> <templateid>3</templateid> <usageid>245554</usageid> <type>xenserver</type> <startdate> t00:00: </startdate> <enddate> t16:14: </enddate> </usagerecord> </listusagerecordsresponse>

21 CloudMonkey CLI CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for CloudStack and can be used as an interactive shell or from within a shell script to call the API It can output the Usage Data in both JSON and Tabular form to a file or pipe it to another application for further processing Filtering can be used to limit the result set It supports argument passing and shell automation The host, port, apikey and secretkey can be configured on setup

22 CloudMonkey list usagerecords The command to retrieve Usage Records is: cloudmonkey list usagerecords domainid=7ded1404-d7fc-11e2-a70f cfaf0b startdate= enddate= accountid=2

23 SQL The usage records can be also accessed by directly querying the cloud_usage.cloud_usage MySQL table in CloudStack Usage Data can be exported in a CSV format from a SELECT query The SQL query can become complex if the ID fields in the data need to be de-referenced Typically multiple passes of the query results may be required to extract the required information

24 CloudStack Message Queue CloudStack 4.1 started publishing events onto a message queue Uses RabbitMQ as the message broker, but likely to work with other AMQPbased brokers Use case: A third-party cloud usage solution can subscribe to CloudStack events and generate usage data which can be consumed by their billing software Great blog from Chip Childers on configuring a CloudStack management server to publish events, and some sample code that prints each event to the console as they are received US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Admin_Guide/events.html

25 Mediation Once you are able to access the Usage Data, you will need to design the mapping between the fields in the CloudStack Usage Data and the fields of the target system Considerations: Do you actually need all the Usage Data for all Resources? Any UUID values of the CloudStack resources should also be imported into the target system for reference purposes Will you need to synchronise accounts and resources in CloudStack with the target system?

26 CloudStack Usage Data Customer Use Cases

27 MS Excel MS Excel can be used to analyse CloudStack Usage Records The usage records are imported from the cloud_usage table into MS Excel via an MySQL ODBC connection Either PivotTables or reports can be used to present the data This is convenient and great for integration testing between CloudStack and external systems

28 Citrix CloudPortal Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager tightly integrates with the cloud_usage database on CloudStack/CloudPlatform The Usage Data is cross referenced against the utility pricing and subscription pricing in CPBM Scheduled Billing and Invoicing jobs generate the invoices in XML or PDF based on the users billing cycle

29 Splunk> Splunk> is an operational intelligence tool that was initially used for collecting and indexing infrastructure logs We then connected splunk> to the CloudStack Usage database and automated the collection and indexing of Usage Data Setup feature-rich dashboards and the capability to drill down into the Usage Data for BI reporting

30 Amysta Provides usage visibility, cost control and IT billing for Private and Hybrid Clouds Dashboard Integrated in the CloudStack UI Pricing, Alerting, Reporting, Capacity Mgmt Amysta consolidates public cloud expenses e.g. AWS and private cloud consumption in one dashboard view

31 Further Information Slides: Blogs: CloudStack Programmer Guide, API Documentation & Wiki: CloudStack Mailing Lists (Users, Development, Marketing): CloudMonkey: How to Use MS Excel to Analyze CloudStack Usage Records:

32 Working with CloudStack Usage Data Tariq Iqbal Senior