Vantage Launches Support for ClickHouse Cloud

Today, Vantage announces support for ClickHouse Cloud costs in the Vantage console, allowing Vantage customers to track their costs and usage of ClickHouse alongside their other infrastructure providers. Customers can add any number of ClickHouse organizations from the Integrations page, and Vantage will automatically ingest and visualize the costs accordingly.

ClickHouse is an open-source, columnar distributed OLAP database that specializes in real-time analytics, business intelligence, and other analytics workloads. Customers will oftentimes run ClickHouse on clouds, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and use it alongside other infrastructure from their cloud provider. For a complete view of application costs, teams need to see their ClickHouse Cloud and AWS/Azure/GCP expenses in a single Vantage report. This was previously possible through the Custom Provider integration in Vantage, but this integration required extra manual work to retrieve, format, and upload the data.

Cost Report displaying ClickHouse Cloud costs and usage quantities across namespaces

Now, with the launch of ClickHouse Cloud costs, customers can grant Vantage access to their ClickHouse cost data via an API key, and Vantage will ingest and report on daily usage data. Filters in Vantage have been expanded to allow for Cost Reports to report on ClickHouse Cloud costs with dimensions of a specific organization, usage type (entity type), and usage subcategory (entity metrics). Users can create reports for their ClickHouse Cloud costs, or combine ClickHouse Cloud costs with their other cost providers, as well as receive notifications for costs, detected anomalies, or budget alerts.

The ClickHouse Cloud integration is now available to all customers. To connect your ClickHouse Cloud account to Vantage, head to the Integrations page of account settings. You can read more about this integration in the ClickHouse Cloud section of the Vantage documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Today, Vantage is announcing support for ClickHouse Cloud costs. Vantage users can now connect Vantage to their ClickHouse Cloud accounts using a Developer API key, and costs will automatically be ingested and visualized within Vantage from the corresponding account.

2. Who can use the ClickHouse Cloud integration in Vantage?

Any Vantage customer that uses ClickHouse Cloud can use this integration.

3. How much does this integration cost?

There is no additional cost for the ClickHouse Cloud integration; however, ClickHouse Cloud costs will be included in quota tier enforcement. In the event that your ClickHouse Cloud costs push you over your current tier limit, you may be prompted to upgrade. To see more details on pricing, please refer to the Pricing page.

4. How does the ClickHouse Cloud integration in Vantage work?

Vantage uses a read-only API key, with Developer permissions, to ingest ClickHouse Cloud usage, costs, and discounts from ClickHouse’s Organization usageCost API.

5. Does Vantage have write access to my ClickHouse Cloud account?

No, Vantage cannot perform writes to your ClickHouse Cloud account, as defined by using the ClickHouse Developer role for the API key.

6. What dimensions can ClickHouse Cloud costs be filtered and grouped by?

The following filter and group by dimensions are available on ClickHouse Cloud Cost Reports:

• Organization (e.g., billing account)
• Service (e.g., ClickHouse Cloud)
• Charge Type (e.g., Usage)
• Category (e.g., Service)
• Subcategory (e.g., computeCHC)
• Resource ID (specific ID for a given ClickHouse cluster)
• Tags (Virtual Tags created in Vantage)

7. Will historical cost data for ClickHouse Cloud be available?

Yes, when following the integration setup, you will be configuring six months of historical cost data from ClickHouse Cloud.

8. Are there any active resources available for ClickHouse Cloud?

Yes, ClickHouse Cloud services will be synced as active resources and available on resource reports.

9. Will ClickHouse Cloud costs be represented in the Overview page?

Yes, ClickHouse Cloud costs are represented in the Overview page and present in the Provider Summary widget.

10. How long will it take for my ClickHouse Cloud cost data to be present in the Vantage console?

Costs will be ingested and processed as soon as you add the integration. It usually takes less than 15 minutes to ingest ClickHouse Cloud costs. As soon as they are processed, they will be available on your All Resources Cost Report.

11. How often does ClickHouse Cloud data refresh in the Vantage console?

ClickHouse Cloud data is refreshed daily in the Vantage console.

12. What happens if I remove a ClickHouse Cloud integration?

If you decide to remove your ClickHouse Cloud integration from Vantage, all costs associated with your ClickHouse Cloud API token will be removed from the Vantage console.

13. Can I have multiple ClickHouse Cloud integrations?

Yes, you can have multiple ClickHouse Cloud integrations by providing API keys for multiple accounts.

14. Does Vantage account correctly for credits, discounts, and refunds?

Yes, these can be toggled on and off from the Settings dropdown of a Cost Report.

15. Does this integration work for Bring Your Own Cloud and Self-Managed ClickHouse deployments?

No, the ClickHouse Organizations usageCost API only supports ClickHouse Cloud and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC).

16. Can I view usage data for ClickHouse Cloud?

Yes, you can view usage data for ClickHouse Cloud consumption. Usage is measured by the following sub-categories:

• Compute
• Storage
• Data transfer (egress over the internet and cross-region)
• ClickPipes

Usage is measured in ClickHouse Cloud Credits (CHCs), which is a metering unit used by ClickHouse. You can learn more about CHCs through ClickHouse Billing documentation.

17. What other cloud service providers is Vantage adding?

Vantage is planning on adding support for Cloudflare, Temporal, and Vercel. Please contact support@vantage.sh with other providers you’d like to see added.