REST API
Any HTTP endpoint that returns JSON or XML is a metered source in Exivity: the REST extractor calls it on a schedule, keeps the response as time-stamped usage, and rates and allocates it like any named platform. It is how the platforms without a page on this site still get billed.
At a glance
- Product
- Hypermeter and Exivity Core
- Source and connection
- Any HTTP/S endpoint returning JSON or XML, via the scriptable extractor
- Data collected
- Usage, cost, customer or business records exposed by the API
Connect custom data sources through REST APIs
Technology cost and usage data does not always come from a predefined integration. Organizations often rely on internal applications, SaaS platforms, custom infrastructure, operational systems, and other services that expose their data through APIs.
Exivity's flexible data ingestion capabilities allow API-accessible information to become part of a broader metering, cost management, and billing model.
Go beyond predefined integrations
REST API integration is particularly useful when the data required for FinOps or billing exists outside traditional cloud billing systems.
Depending on the available API and underlying data, organizations can bring in information such as:
Consumption and usage records
Cost and pricing information
Customer or tenant data
Service information
Operational metrics
Business context used for allocation
Custom infrastructure data
That information can then be combined with data from public cloud, private cloud, SaaS, virtualization, containers, and other sources.
This flexibility reinforces Exivity's data-source-agnostic approach: organizations are not limited to a fixed catalog of supported technologies when the required data can be accessed and incorporated into their cost model.
Once ingested, data can support allocation, reporting, showback, chargeback, usage-based billing, and other financial workflows according to the organization's own business rules.
See this integration on your own data.
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