Metered Usage dashboard for offers in commercial marketplace analytics

This article provides information about the Metered usage page under Usage dashboard, with insights about metered usage of Virtual Machine (VM), Containers and Azure applications offers in this page.

This page contains following widgets showing insights:

  • Metered Usage
  • Metered usage by customers
  • Usage details

Important

The maximum latency between usage event generation and reporting in Partner Center is 48 hours.

Page level filters

Metered usage page shows insights for Containers, Software as a service (SaaS) and Azure applications offer types. You can view insights by selecting the offer and meter ID.

This page has following dropdown available for selection:

  • Offer type - This dropdown shows available offer types and have values like Containers, SaaS, and Azure applications.
  • Offers - This dropdown shows the list of offer names based on selected offer type.
  • Plan type - This dropdown shows if the Azure app is Solution template or Managed application with Publisher and customer access. This is only applicable for Azure applications.
  • Meter Id - This dropdown shows the list of meter ID based on selected offer.

Screenshot of the filters on the metered usage dashboard.

Metered usage

This widget shows metered usage for the selected offer and meter ID.

Screenshot of the Raw usage chart for containers on the Usage dashboard.

Chart provides month over month trend of usage for selected period.

Customers

This widget shows the metered usage for customers based on selected offer and meter ID.

Screenshot of the usage against customer for containers in usage dashboard.

Usage details table

Important

To download the data in CSV, you can use the Download data option, available at the top of the page.

The usage details table displays a numbered list of the top 500 usage records sorted by usage. Note the following:

  • Data in this table is displayed based on the page you select
  • Each column in the grid is sortable

Select on the ellipsis (three dots '...') to copy the widget image, or download the image as a pdf for sharing purposes.

Screenshot of the Usage details widget.

For more information about fields, see Data dictionary for usage