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Cherry Servers is a bare-metal cloud. It has no billing export, but every server carries its own real price, so CostGraph rates your live servers at their own rate to produce cost. CostGraph reads Cherry Servers as FOCUS 1.2 records at a grain of server x project, prorated to the period.

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Choose how the data reaches us

CostGraph pulls it

You supply a read-only API key and we call Cherry Servers once a day. Nothing to run.

You push it

You send us FOCUS records over the API. Credentials never leave your infrastructure.

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Before you begin

  • In the Cherry Servers dashboard, go to API keys and create a key.
  • Note the team id if the key can see more than one team. Leave it empty and CostGraph reads every team the key reaches.

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Let CostGraph pull

  1. Open Settings > Integrations and pick Cherry Servers.
  2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these servers belong to.
  3. Enter the API key, and a team id if you want one team instead of every team the key reads.
  4. Select Connect.
CostGraph verifies the credentials with a short fetch before saving, so a wrong value or a missing permission fails while you are still on the form.
Cherry Servers has no invoice API, so cost is your live inventory rated at each server’s own price and prorated to the period. That equals the bill for stable monthly servers; it is a close estimate for hourly servers that start and stop mid-period. Credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to read your account.

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Push it yourself

Send the records to CostGraph as FOCUS instead. Push FOCUS data covers the connection id, the focus:write key, and the request shape.

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Run the exporter

Rather than build that request yourself, run our exporter. It reads Cherry Servers on a schedule and pushes the records for you, wherever you want to run it: a container, a Kubernetes CronJob, or a binary on a machine you already have.
Your Cherry Servers credential stays where you put it, and only the finished FOCUS records reach CostGraph. Run the exporter covers the three ways to run it and the variables it reads.

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What CostGraph does with it

Records land as raw billing rows, are normalised into line items, and roll up into daily cost. From there Cherry Servers spend appears in Cost Overview and in anomaly detection alongside every other provider, attributed per project.