#Architecture

The platform provides overall metering and billing capabilities through the cooperation of ACP Cost Management Server and ACP Cost Management Agent components:

• ACP Cost Management Server: You need to install this plugin in the global cluster in order to use the platform's metering and billing functions.

  • Interfaces with Clickhouse, responsible for receiving data reported by clients and storing it in the Clickhouse database, with no time limit on data storage.

  • Provides an API for querying metering and billing data.

  • Offers the ability to modify unit prices and currency unit configurations.

  • Note: The currency unit set by the platform currently only affects display purposes and does not support currency conversion between different units.

• ACP Cost Management Agent: You need to install this plugin in the cluster where metering and billing are planned, so that the platform can meter and bill the resources in the cluster.

  • Interfaces with Prometheus, providing an exporter to store metering and billing metrics data in Prometheus.

  • Connects to ACP Cost Management Server, aggregates and calculates the metering and billing data for all resources in the cluster from the previous day at 12:30 AM each day, and reports it to the server. If the report fails, it will attempt to resend every two hours until successful.