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title: Metering Overview
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## Metering Usage

Amberflo Metering Service enables you to ask and answer the following question in real-time and with accuracy:
**What was used by whom, when, where, and how much?**

### Meter Event Data Structure

Amberflo's Meter Event data structure captures this information clearly and concisely:

| Aspect   | Details                 |
| -------- | ----------------------- |
| What     | Meter name and API name |
| Whom     | CustomerID              |
| When     | Timestamp               |
| How much | Meter value             |
| Where    | Dimensions              |

**Accurate, Real-time, Secure, and Reliable Usage Data**

**Meters are facts!** To build trust and efficiency, you need a metering service that provides an accurate, real-time, and secure single source of truth for usage and consumption data. Amberflo Cloud Metering Service is designed from the ground up to deliver just that.

**Standardized Usage Tracking Across All Systems**

Amberflo offers a **standardized and flexible API interface** for metering product usage across your technology stack.

**Benefits of standardization:**

- Accelerate development and deployment
- Enhance cross-team collaboration and data sharing
- Focus resources on core products and services
- Reduce metering and billing errors
- Improve customer satisfaction

**Meter Any Resource Type**

Our standardized and flexible meter definition API and data structure form the foundation for driving accuracy, visibility, and insights — both internally and for your customers.

**Decoupled from Pricing and Billing**

Amberflo Cloud Metering Service operates **independently of pricing and billing**. This ensures you have a highly scalable system of record for usage and consumption data, without dependencies on pricing models.

For those who need it, the system seamlessly integrates with Amberflo's Usage-Based Pricing and Billing Service — but you can also use the Cloud Metering Service alone and export data via API to third-party systems.

**Seamless Integration with Your Tech Stack**

No need for a rip-and-replace approach. Amberflo integrates smoothly with your existing technology stack.

We provide:

- **Language-specific SDKs**
- **Direct third-party system integrations**

**Automatic Data Transformation & Aggregation**

Let us handle the heavy lifting:

- Ingestion
- Transformation
- Aggregation
- Time series distribution
- On-demand invoice and bill generation

Simply send us the meters, we take care of the rest.

**Real-time Alerts & Notifications**

Set **usage and cost limits** with ease. Get real-time alerts and notifications so you’re always in control.

**Usage Explorer**

Access fast, on-demand, and actionable usage reports and invoices, all in real-time.

**API-First Approach**

Amberflo is an **API-first platform**. Every feature and artifact can be accessed and managed through our APIs and SDKs.