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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.

Currently, the tracked metrics are: bytes produced and consumed by service accounts. We'll be adding more metrics soon.

Pre-requisites​

Chargeback requires both Console and Gateway:

  • Console 1.29.0+
  • Gateway 3.4.0+

Configuration​

To enable the Chargeback in Console:

  1. Go to Settings > Clusters and select your cluster.

  2. In the Provider tab, Select Gateway and enter API details with the default virtual cluster value of passthrough.

    Gateway provider

  3. 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 on the Chargeback page in Console.