release: Konnect Metering & Billing

.github/styles/base/Dictionary.txt

@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ crd
 crds
 created_at
 creationTimestamp
+CRMs
 cronjob
 CrowdStrike
 cryptocurrency

app/_data/schemas/frontmatter/base.json

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
         "type": "string",
-        "enum": ["ai-gateway", "gateway", "insomnia", "mesh", "kic", "catalog", "advanced-analytics", "dev-portal", "operator", "konnect", "event-gateway", "konnect-reference-platform"]
+        "enum": ["ai-gateway", "gateway", "insomnia", "mesh", "kic", "catalog", "advanced-analytics", "dev-portal", "operator", "konnect", "event-gateway", "konnect-reference-platform", "metering-and-billing"]
       }
     },
     "tools": {

app/_indices/metering-and-billing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+title: Metering and Billing Documentation Index
+sections:
+  - title: Reference
+    items:
+      - path: /metering-and-billing/
+      - path: /metering-and-billing/**/*
+    auto_exclude: true
+  - title: How-Tos
+    items:
+      - type: how-to
+        products:
+          - metering-and-billing

app/_landing_pages/metering-and-billing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+metadata:
+  title: "Metering and Billing"
+  content_type: landing_page
+  description: Learn how to meter and bill for your features with Metering and Billing.
+  breadcrumbs:
+    - /metering-and-billing/
+  products:
+    - metering-and-billing
+
+rows:
+  - header:
+      type: h1
+      text: "Metering and Billing"
+      sub_text: Turn any events, logs, and metrics into revenue with usage-based metering and billing.

app/metering-and-billing/subjects.md

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+---
+title: "Subjects"
+content_type: reference
+description: "Learn how subjects work in {{site.konnect_short_name}} Metering and Billing and how they relate to usage tracking and external billing systems."
+layout: reference
+products:
+  - metering-and-billing
+tools:
+    - konnect-api
+works_on:
+  - konnect
+breadcrumbs:
+  - /metering-and-billing/
+related_resources:
+  - text: "{{site.konnect_short_name}} Metering and Billing"
+    url: /metering-and-billing/
+
+---
+
+## What is a subject?
+
+Subjects represent the entity that consume metered resources in {{site.konnect_short_name}} Metering and Billing. Billable events ingested to Metering and Billing have a subject associated with them.
+
+A subject can represent any unique event in your system, such as: 
+* Customer ID or User ID  
+* Hostname or IP address  
+* Service or application name  
+* Device ID  
+
+The subject model is intentionally generic, enabling flexible application across different metering scenarios.
+In most implementations, a subject maps 1:1 with a customer or user in your system. You can use the same identifier for both, but they can differ if your usage producer and billing entity are not the same. For example:
+* One customer may have multiple usage-producing subjects  
+* A single subject’s usage may need to be billed to a different customer  
+
+You can also have multiple subjects assigned to a customer. This abstraction allows you to group usage data and billing for a customer. For example, a customer can have multiple subjects like `department1` or `department2`:
+
+{% mermaid %}
+flowchart TD
+
+subgraph a ["Customer Kong Air"]
+  subject1["Subject"]
+end
+
+subgraph Customer-ACME Inc
+  subject2["Subject (Department 1)"]
+  subject3["Subject (Department 2)"]
+end
+
+subject1 --> UsageEvents1["Usage Events"]
+subject2 --> UsageEvents2["Usage Events"]
+subject3 --> UsageEvents3["Usage Events"]
+{% endmermaid %}
+
+{:.info}
+> We recommend creating a subject when a new customer or user is created in your system and deleting a subject when a customer or user is deleted. Keeping the subjects in sync in Metering and Billing is necessary if you synchronize usage to external systems, such as Stripe billing or CRMs, as {{site.konnect_short_name}} knows the mapping between the subject and the external system.
+> {{site.konnect_short_name}} Metering and Billing will also automatically create a subject for you when you ingest an usage event for a new subject.
+
+## How do subjects work?
+
+{{site.konnect_short_name}} Metering and Billing uses subjects to:
+
+* Associate usage with external systems (for example, Stripe or CRM tools)
+* Store descriptive metadata
+* Identify the entity producing metered events
+
+Each subject contains the following fields:
+
+* **Key** – The subject’s unique identifier  
+* **Display name** – A human-readable label shown in the UI  
+* **Metadata** – Optional key-value attributes for additional context  
+
+
+## Data ingestion
+
+When shipping data to {{site.konnect_short_name}} you must include the subject within the events payload: 
+
+```ts
+{
+  "specversion": "1.0",
+  "type": "api-calls",
+  "id": "00002",
+  "time": "2023-01-01T00:00:00.001Z",
+  "source": "service-0",
+  "subject": "customer-1",
+  "data": {...}
+}
+```
+
+
+## Schema
+
+[Insert Schema here](https://openmeter.io/docs/api/cloud#tag/subjects)
+
+## Set up a subject
+
+CRUD a subject here

jekyll.yml

@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ operator_product_name_short: KO
 event_gateway: Kong Event Gateway
 event_gateway_short: Event Gateway
 konnect_catalog: Catalog
+metering_and_billing: Metering & Billing
 
 repos:
   developer: https://github.com/Kong/developer.konghq.com