The latest update to the open source Cyclops Framework, part of our ongoing work to advance metering and monetization across cloud platforms, brings yet more new features and improvements:
- Small fixes to the versioning/rollback features
- New estimation and forecasting engine
The new forecasting engine is now built into Cyclops’ UDR service and can generate individual or global usage forecasts and cost/revenue estimates based on the existing usage data and be used to evaluate new pricing models.
A full-featured CLI client for the forecasting engine was also created to make using the new functionality more intuitive.
Here is a peek at the forecasting in action:
![Generation of an activity pattern-based charge forecast with the forecasting CLI](https://blog.zhaw.ch/splab/files/2019/06/Screenshot-from-2019-06-27-11-13-14-1024x357.png)