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Chitragupta

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In Hindu tradition, Chitragupta is the deity who maintains a complete record of every being’s actions. The divine accountant. Fitting name for a system that tracks exactly who used what and how much it cost.

CCloud Chargeback Helper

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When multiple teams share a Confluent Cloud environment but a single CoE team manages everything, the billing question comes up fast: who’s actually using what, and how much does it cost?

Topic-Level Kafka Cost Attribution with Prometheus

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Which topic is costing us?” is the question every platform team gets, and nobody can answer it cleanly. SaaS providers bill you at the cluster level. Your finance team wants a line item per team. Your product managers want to know if their pipeline is the expensive one. You have a Kafka cluster, a bill, and no bridge between them.

From 'Where's My Money?' to 'Here's Your Bill': Demystifying Kafka Chargebacks and Showbacks

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Presented at Confluent Current 2025 in New Orleans.

Cloud billing for Kafka is opaque by default. You get one invoice, shared across every team, with no clear way to tell who’s driving costs. This talk walks through how to go from that to transparent, identity-level cost attribution, covering the tooling, the data model, and the organizational patterns that make chargebacks and showbacks actually work.