Subscription watch: Managing your hybrid cloud estate

Subscription watch: Managing your hybrid cloud estate A simple onboarding journey to visibility Registering core systems Automated metering for managed services Centralized inventory via Red Hat Satellite Core capabilities: Turning data into strategy Real-time current usage versus thresholds Deep historical analysis Identifying usage hotspots Exporting data for reporting and analysis No more surprises: Proactive notifications Security and privacy: Data that pushes, never pulls Start maximizing your value today Red Hat Learning Subscription | Product Trial About the authors Gagan Kumar Arianna Gallagher More like this Metrics that matter: How to prove the business value of DevEx New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 The C Change | Command Line Heroes Becoming a Coder | Command Line Heroes Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Managing a hybrid cloud environment spanning on-premise data centers, edge deployments, and multiple public clouds often results in subscription sprawl. Even in simpler environments, it can be challenging to maintain clear visibility into subscription use. Organizations frequently struggle to answer a basic question: “Exactly how much of our purchased Red Hat capacity are we actually using right now?” Subscription watch is the solution to this complexity. It is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool integrated into Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console that provides a unified, aggregated view of your subscription usage and capacity. Getting your data into subscription watch is simple and can be performed within your existing Red Hat environment. Depending on how systems are deployed and managed, subscription usage data can reach subscription watch through several ingestion paths. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visibility begins with registration. When you register your systems using insights-client or Red Hat Subscription Manager, those clients push system metadata in a security-centric manner to Hybrid Cloud Console. Subscription watch de-duplicates data drawn from multiple sources so that individual servers aren’t counted twice, providing a high-fidelity inventory count. insights-client For cloud-native services like Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, subscription watch acts as a meter by automatically tracking daily resource consumption, such as worker node vCPUs and control plane usage. This offers transparency into your pay-as-you-go or on-demand invoicing. An inventory upload plugin enables Red Hat Satellite to report system data to Hybrid Cloud Console.