Detailed usage metrics, billing information, and consumption reporting.
## Overview The Metering page presents detailed consumption data that drives billing and capacity planning decisions. It aggregates usage metrics collected from every compute node and organizes them into billing periods. Finance teams and platform administrators use this page to understand cost drivers, forecast upcoming invoices, and identify nodes or workloads that contribute disproportionately to resource consumption. Metrics are collected by the control plane metering subsystem and stored centrally. The page refreshes from the control plane API, ensuring that the GUI never accesses the metering database directly. ## Key Features - View usage metrics broken down by billing period. Each period shows total compute seconds, query count, and data scanned. - Drill into per-node consumption to identify which compute nodes are driving the majority of resource usage within a period. - Compare consecutive billing periods side by side to detect usage trends or anomalies. - Inspect individual metering records including timestamps, owning principal, query hash, and measured resource units. - Review billing period summaries with projected costs based on the active license tier and pricing schedule. ## Workflow 1. Navigate to Admin and select Metering. 2. Select the billing period of interest from the period selector. The default view shows the current open period. 3. Review the summary panel for total consumption, query count, and data volume. 4. Expand the Per-Node Breakdown section to identify high-consumption nodes. 5. Click any individual metering record to view its full details including the originating query and measured resource units. 6. Use the period comparison view to evaluate whether consumption is growing, stable, or declining relative to prior periods.