Data Center
Overview
Amberflo enables enterprises to bring the same level of visibility, accountability, and automation to on-premise and data center environments as they have in the public cloud. With real-time metering, flexible pricing models, and full chargeback and billing support, Amberflo makes it possible to track, allocate, and monetize usage across hybrid and on-prem infrastructure.
Why It Matters
Most on-prem systems lack native billing data and real-time cost visibility. This makes it difficult to answer key questions:
How much does a specific application or team cost to run?
Who is using shared infrastructure?
What internal or external customers should be billed?
How can we compare on-prem costs to cloud alternatives?
Amberflo solves this by turning infrastructure signals into real-time meter events, applying pricing and allocation logic, and exposing unified cost and usage views across all environments.
What You Can Do with Amberflo
Meter Any On-Prem Resource
Amberflo provides a flexible ingestion layer to track any usage signal:
- Compute: CPU hours, core usage, job runtimes
- Storage: GB-months, object counts, IOPS
- Network: ingress/egress volumes, transfer events
- GPU: utilization, token counts, inference time
- Custom: any business-specific metric you want to measure
You can ingest usage via:
- Prometheus (e.g., via Node Exporter or custom exporters)
- REST APIs or SDKs
- Scheduled batch files or event streams
- Learn more: Metering Overview
Add Pricing and Cost Attribution
Once you’ve captured usage, Amberflo allows you to assign value to it using pricing plans and allocation rules.
You can:
- Apply internal rates for chargebacks and cost modeling
- Set up business units to reflect your org structure
- Attribute shared infrastructure by tag, region, service, or resource
- Use allocation rules to fill in gaps where tagging is unavailable
Use Cases
Amberflo enables a wide range of on-prem and hybrid use cases:
- AI/ML Workloads: Meter GPU usage by model, team, or user. Bill internal teams or resell to customers.
- Shared Kubernetes Clusters: Track pod-level metrics and allocate costs to business units.
- Private SaaS Deployments: Bill customers based on usage of APIs, storage, or compute.
- Data Center Chargebacks: Recover costs for power, cooling, storage, and compute.
- Hybrid Infrastructure: Unify visibility across cloud and on-prem to support migration planning and cost benchmarking.
Benefits
- Real-time visibility into on-prem usage and cost
- Full chargeback and billing capabilities—no custom tooling required
- Accurate cost attribution, even in multi-tenant or shared environments
- Seamless integration with existing systems (Prometheus, logs, APIs)
- Unified reporting across cloud and on-prem