Usage Tracking Module for Multi-Tenant PaaS Resource Measurement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) systems lack an efficient method to measure and track resource consumption, such as CPU, memory, and storage usage, across multi-tenant environments, which hinders accurate billing and resource management.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a usage tracking module within the PaaS system to monitor and record resource consumption per application and user, aggregating data by time intervals for billing purposes, and integrating with a billing provider for invoicing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If resource consumption tracking is implemented in a multi-tenant PaaS system, then billing accuracy and resource management improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the multi-tenant PaaS system into distinct functional modules: a usage tracking module that monitors resource consumption, a data aggregation module that consolidates usage data, and a billing module that generates invoices. This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function independently, improving measurement precision while managing system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a usage tracking module as an intermediary component between the virtual machine infrastructure and the billing system. This intermediary captures resource consumption data from the infrastructure, processes it through aggregation, and delivers formatted usage information to the billing module, thereby enabling accurate resource measurement without directly complicating the core billing or infrastructure systems.
2Measurement precision
If detailed resource usage tracking is implemented per application and user, then billing accuracy improves, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the usage tracking module continuously monitor and capture resource consumption data as it is generated, rather than attempting to retrospectively calculate usage. Usage data is aggregated over time intervals and pre-processed into standardized formats before being passed to the billing module, which simplifies the billing process and improves tracking accuracy without requiring complex real-time processing during invoice generation.
3Productivity
If resource consumption data is aggregated by time intervals for billing, then billing efficiency improves, but real-time monitoring capability may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic action by aggregating resource usage data into defined time intervals (such as hourly, daily, or monthly periods) for billing purposes. The usage tracking module continuously monitors resource consumption in real-time, but the billing module processes aggregated data from completed time intervals, which improves billing efficiency by reducing processing complexity while maintaining the ability to provide timely billing information.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations for measuring resource consumption in a cloud provider system are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes determining that a resource of an application of a cloud provider system is initializing, determining whether each operation in a list of initialization operations used in the initialization of the resources is performed successfully, prior to a create usage record operation in the list of initialization operations, in response to determining that each of the initialization operations prior to the create usage record operation in the list of initialization operations is performed successfully, creating a usage record for the resource using the create usage record operation based on a threshold usage level associated with the application, and in response to determining that at least one of the initialization operations prior to the create usage record operation in the list of initialization operations has failed, performing a roll-back operation or a re-try operation for the at least one of the initialization operations that has failed.