An organization has a multi-department environment with multiple workloads that experience variable consumption patterns. Leadership wants an accurate way to predict expenses and allocate them among departments. Which method is the BEST approach to capture usage data for cost forecasting?
Rely on a third-party aggregator that scans final invoices to approximate resource usage trends
Set up monthly PDF reports from the provider's billing console to create a usage summary
Employ a built-in usage tracker that collects details on CPU cycles, network egress, and memory consumption
Manual logging of consumption from each system using command-line scripts stored in a shared directory
A built-in usage tracker provided by the hosting vendor collects real-time details on resource consumption. This approach provides ongoing data for cost analysis, making it possible to charge departments based on precise usage. Monthly reports or invoice scanning lack granular detail and timeliness, and manual logging is vulnerable to human error and does not scale in dynamic environments.
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