What are the use cases of Chargeback?

[jersenmathew]

I would like to know the use cases of configuring Chargeback.

[Fryguy]

The purpose of Chargeback is to determine the cost of a set of VMs, container images and projects, or configured systems based on the CPU, Memory or Disk metrics collected for those objects. Chargeback rates can be defined for different tiers of metrics, and those rates are applied to the actual metrics collected over the last 30 days, producing a report of the cost.

One common example use case for this might be charging different departments of your company based on their usage. If the objects are tagged by department then you can create a monthly chargeback report that calculates the cost by department.

More information can be found in the documentation here: https://www.manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/monitoring_alerts_and_reporting/#chargeback

[jersenmathew]

Thanks for the explanation!

[keatonwillis]

Hey @Fryguy - The response above sounds as if chargeback can determine the cost of a container image by CPU, Memory or Disk metrics but when I read through the page referenced by the URL, it sounds like the only chargeback metric for containers is custom or default. I may be misunderstanding, so could you explain the chargeback use case for containers in more detail? What is possible for containers?