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A Complete E2E Metered Billing for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Cloud Assert Billing for Azure Stack Hub enables billing and chargeback within Azure Stack portal. It allows you as an administrator to track the resource consumption across Azure Stack and custom services, compare usage vs quota, configure pricing for Azure Stack resources based on usage meters, integrate with external billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real-time usages.

Cloud Assert is the only provider of Billing and Commerce platform for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub that has native integration inside Azure Stack Portal UI and Azure Resource Manager API as a Resource Provider. It allows Enterprises, Service Providers, Re-sellers and End Users to view, track and manage their resource consumption and billing from the same single portal with one-pane glass experience.


Cloud Assert Usage and Billing platform is a matured, battle proven solution with many flexible options to customize and suite diverse marketing and sales needs. It provides you the quickest way to offer rich billing solution on top of the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub portal for all your Charge-back, Show-back, Billing and Reporting needs.

Administrator Portal

Usage and Billing solution enables you as a service administrator to define multiple pricing models within Azure Stack Hub for all the available services, resource meters, plans and offers.

  • Set different Pricing Profiles for all the Azure Stack Hub Meters
  • Visibility across Resource Usages and its Costs per subscription
  • Run Promotional Credits in a percentage or a monetary value
  • Extensibility and Flexibility to charge customers based on their specifc needs
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Customer/ Tenant Portal

Just like Azure public cloud, Tenants can get to see their ongoing usages, pricing and billing information including invoices right within their Azure Stack customer portal at a quick glance.

  • Ability to see their ongoing usages and its associated costs
  • Automatic invoice generation at the end of the billing cycle
  • Pay your bills within the Azure Stack Hub portal
  • Native billing experience just like Azure
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Using the .NET application, how can an event be sent to and received from azure event hubs?

Author: Sanobar Khan/Wednesday, October 19, 2022/Categories: Microsoft Azure

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Create an application to send events to an Azure Event Hub:

Create a console application in Visual Studio and then install the Azure Event Hub NuGet package for .NET called ‘Azure.Messaging.EventHubs’ via the NuGet Packet Manager. You can also install this client in NuGet Packet Manager Console using the following command.


To work with the ‘Azure.Messaging.EventHubs’ packages, you should add the following statements in your program.


Establish a connection to Azure Event Hubs:

To connect to an Azure Event Hub instance, we need the connection string of event hub namespace and event hub name. You can get the connection string and event hub name from the Azure portal.


Create and send events to Azure Event Hubs:

  1. Create a producer EventHubProducerClient object using the primary connection string of event hubs namespace and the event hub name.

  2. Create a batch of events by invoking the CreateBatchAsync method on the EventHubProducerClient object to create a EventDataBatch object.

  3. Add events to the batch using the EventDataBatch .Try Add method.

  4. Send the batch of messages to the event hub using EventHubProducerClient. SendAsync method.


Result :


We can see the send events in Azure portal.


Create an application to receive events from an Azure Event Hub:

Creating a .NET console application to receive events from an event hub and to save the checkpoints on the storage account.


To save the checkpoints, use the Azure Storage.

  • Create an Azure Storage Account.
  • Create a blob container.

Create a console application in Visual Studio and then install the Azure Event Hub NuGet packages for .NET called ‘Azure.Messaging.EventHubs’ and ‘Azure.Messaging.EventHubs.Processor’ via the NuGet Packet Manager. You can also install this client in NuGet Packet Manager Console using the following command.


of an Event Hub and manages checkpoints and state for processing in a durable manner using Azure Storage blobs as the underlying data store.

To work with the Event Hubs packages, you should add the following statements in your program.


The namespace ‘Azure.Messaging.EventHubs.Consumer’ contains the ‘EventHubConsumerClient’ class which is responsible for reading EventData from a specific Event Hub as a member of a specific consumer group.

Establish a connection to Azure Event Hubs and Azure Storage:

To connect to an Azure Event Hub instance and Azure Storage, we need the connection string of event hub namespace, event hub name, storage account connection string and blob container name. You can get the value of the above parameters from the Azure portal.


Receive events from Azure Event Hubs:

  1. Create a storage BlobContainerClient object using the primary connection string of storage account and the blob container name.

  2. Create a processor EventProcessorClient object using the primary connection string of event hubs namespace, event hub name, blob container object and consumer groups.

  3. The EventHubConsumerClient class is used to consume events from an Event Hub.

  4. Specify handlers for ProcessEventAsync and ProcessErrorAsync events of EventProcessorClient to process events and to handle error.

  5. Start processing events by invoking the EventProcessorClient.StartProcessingAsync method.

  6. Stop processing events by invoking the EventProcessorClient.StopProcessingAsync method.


Result:


We can see the received events in Azure portal.

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