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Configure Chargeback

Overview​

Chargeback allows organizations to track and allocate costs/usage associated with Kafka resources to different teams or departments based on their data consumption and processing, facilitating cost accountability and management.

As of now, the tracked metrics are:

  • Service Accounts produced bytes
  • Service Accounts consumed bytes

We plan to add more metrics to Chargeback in the future. Let us know which metrics you would like to see next.

Requirement​

Chargeback requires both Console & Gateway:

  • Console 1.29.0+
  • Gateway 3.4.0+

Configuration​

To enable the Chargeback screens in Console, the following steps are necessary:

  1. Configure the Gateway cluster in Console
  2. Configure the Provider tab with Gateway API credentials
  • Note that Virtual clusters are not supported yet. When populating the provider tab, you should instead use the default value passthrough.

Gateway Provider

  1. Deploy the Chargeback Interceptor on Gateway. This can be done through Console UI or using the Gateway API/CLI
apiVersion: gateway/v2
kind: Interceptor
metadata:
  name: observability-interceptor
spec:
  pluginClass: "io.conduktor.gateway.interceptor.observability.ObservabilityPlugin"
  priority: 100
  config:
    topicName: observability # name of the Topic where the Chargeback data will be stored
    replicationFactor: 3
    flushIntervalInSecond: 300

After a few minutes, you should see your active Service Accounts appear in the Chargeback UI.

Kafka Connect Wizard

Check the Chargeback Usage pages for details on the different tabs and UI features.