The first version of the Rating, Charging and Billing Dashboard is now available on Github! The dashboard is targeted towards a cloud service provider and their client. It has different views for an end user and a cloud administrator. The dashboard interacts with the different micro services of Rating, Charging & Billing to get the relevant data and for storing the configuration settings.

Following are some of the salient features of the dashboard –

• OpenAM powered authentication and authorization.
• Association of OpenStack account with the dashboard account
• Separate view for an end user and a cloud administrator
• User rights management
• Visualization of resources consumed
• Enabling different rate policy for cloud resources
• Visualization of the generated rate of a resource
• Visualization of charge data generated for a user

Let’s have a look at the features in detail:  Continue reading