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> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:52:15AM +0000, Lee Calcote (lecalcot) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What support does Ceilometer provide today and what support is planned to
> > provide for financial management? While Ceilometer provides functionality
> > for *metering* and *billing integration* as two categories of financial
> > management, does it provide for others (e.g. *pricing* - a method to set
> > prices on common objects)? I consider that financial management breaks
> > into these categories (and quite possibly others):
> 
> The main goal of ceilometer is metering, and from what I understand
> all the billing processing is not something that fit or will in this
> project.

Your understanding is correct ... directly addressing the billing stage
of the pipeline was explicitly a non-goal for ceilometer from the very
outset IIRC.

Cheers,
Eoghan
 
> > Is support for these other categories planned for Ceilometer or other
> > components? Have these use cases been successfully provided for in
> > Ceilometer to date or have they yet to be achieved -
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer/blueprints/support-for-advance-s
> > ervice-billing-models?
> > 
> We've started some work around the question, the project is hosted on
> stackforge : https://github.com/stackforge/cloudkitty
> Our main goal at the moment is to create reports with billing
> informations. Everything is gathered directly from ceilometer.
> 
> In a near future we want to add the pricing informations directly in
> horizon.
> 
> At the moment we're not addressing accounting/financial management
> functions.
> 
> We've only really worked on what we needed to implement. We would be
> happy to hear about your use cases to see where the project should head.
> 
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