Buttonwood Cloud Analytics harvests billing data from service providers.
Where the service provider supports API access to billing data, Analytics can be configured to harvest the data directly from the provider.
The following articles lists procedures relevant for each service provider which supports this functionality.
Where the service provider does not support API access to billing data or does not natively generate any billing data for external access, custom rate cards can be configured to track costs against workloads which have been deployed via Buttonwood Cloud Broker. Custom rate cards are used to synthetically generate billing data for use by Analytics.
Custom rate cards are configured when adding service provider accounts to Buttonwood Broker. The following articles lists procedures relevant for each service provider which supports this functionality.