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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I was just looking over the efficient metering stuff yesterday.
>
> Just a couple of questions, that might be dups (sorry if they are).
>
> I am noticing that there seems to be a mix of billing specifics there and
> metering specifics there.
>
> If say metering can just provide as much raw data as possible then is that
> not sufficient? Shouldn’t that be the limit of openstack’s job?
>

I believe the rest of the group is reaching that conclusion, too. There was
some discussion of that in the recent "schema and counter definitions"
thread.


>
> Then there can be sets of business units or other people that figure out
> how to carve up that raw data into billing equivalents. This is especially
> since every business will have there own idears around billing. In certain
> situations, I can even think where one would want to use hadoop to
> calculate some advanced model of all that raw-data and use that for
> billing, but the key part that keeps on coming up in my brain is just get
> as much raw data as possible.
>
> Thoughts??
>
> -Josh
>
>
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