Configuring the Cloudera Observability cost center criteria

The Cloudera Observability Financial Governance Chargeback feature defines cost centers based on certain criteria. Configure your Cloudera Observability Chargeback settings by designating your cost center resource usage across users and pools and defining the unit resource consumption costs.

The Cloudera Observability Chargeback calculates user and pool costs based on CPU, memory, data read and written consumption. You decide the CPU and Memory unit rates using your internal pricing or cost model.

Verify that you are logged in to the Cloudera Observability web UI.
1. In a supported browser, log into the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
  The CDP Cloud web interface landing page opens.
2. From the Your Enterprise Data Cloud landing page, select the Observability tile.
  The Cloudera Observability landing page opens.
From the Cloudera Observability Main navigation panel, select Financial Governance.
To configure your Chargeback criteria, do the following:
1. From the Actions list, select Chargeback Settings.
  The Setup page opens displaying the Chargeback Criteria settings.
2. From the Select your Chargeback criteria section, select the required user or pool usage criterion option for your cost centers.
  Where, the Users option defines your cost centers based on users, and the Pools option defines your cost centers based on your resource pools.
3. From the Unit cost section, do the following:
  1. From the Form Factor list, select the form factor to define cost. This defined unit cost is used to calculate the chargeback cost. You can select Classic Cluster, CDE, CDH, CDQ, and PvC Base form factors.
  2. In the CPU ($/CPU core hours) field, enter the amount for each CPU core hour.
  3. In the Memory ($/GB hours) field, enter the amount for each gigabyte hour.
  4. In the Data Read $/GB field, enter the cost per gigabyte (GB) for the data read by your application, measured in dollars.
  5. In the Data Written $/GB field, enter the cost per gigabyte (GB) for the data written by your application, measured in dollars.
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  By default, the decimal currency symbol uses the $ dollar sign.
4. Click Complete Setup.
Now that you have configured your Chargeback criteria settings you can start creating cost centers.
To change your Chargeback criteria, do the following:
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Cost centers are associated with a specific usage criterion (Users or Pools). Changing the Chargeback usage criteria setting that your cost centers are associated with, such as from Users to Pools, will hide your current cost centers that are associated with the previous usage criterion.
1. From the Actions list on the Environments page, select Chargeback Settings.
  The Chargeback Criteria Setup page opens.
2. If required, change the usage criterion option by selecting the option now required.
  A warning message appears explaining that all cost centers associated with your previous usage criterion will be hidden.
3. If required, from the Unit cost section, make your changes to the CPU, Memory, Data Read, and Data Written unit costs.
4. Click Update.
If you changed the usage criterion, for example from Users to Pools, your cost centers from the previous usage criterion (Users) are hidden. To display the unit consumption costs of your resources based on the new usage criterion value requires creating new cost centers.

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The Cloudera Observability Chargeback feature enables you to have cost centers associated with each usage criterion for tracking the workload consumption costs for both Users and Pools.