Multi-application SaaS metering engine

1. A system for measuring usage of at least one computer resource within a multi-tenant system, comprising:

a metering engine configured to monitor a plurality of data streams generated by monitored events of the multi-tenant system;

an identity engine configured to identify a first user who initiated an event captured by a portion of the plurality of data streams from a group of users as first user instances uniquely mapped to the first user;

wherein the group of users comprise at least the first user and a second user;

a bucket aggregator configured to aggregate activity from first user instances as a function of the portion of the plurality of data streams to create a total activity aggregate of the first user;

wherein the total activity aggregate of the first user further comprises monitored events and first user instances;

a subscription engine configured to generate a summary of the total activity aggregate of the first user, and a total activity aggregate of all instances that belong to the same zone as first user;

a rendering engine that presents a representation of the generated summary of the total activity aggregate of the first user, and a total activity aggregate of all instances that belong to the same zone as the first user, to a user interface;

a notification engine configured to provide notifications to users regarding at least one of a cloud resource status, a comparative resource usage metric, a comparative operational feature metric, and a billing error;

a throttling engine configured to limit access of at least one of the first user and the second user to a zone when the total activity aggregate of all instances that belong to the first user exceeds a threshold;

wherein the threshold is generated as function of the total activity aggregate of all instances that belong to the same zone as the first user;

wherein the metering engine, the identity engine, the bucket aggregator, the subscription engine, the rendering engine, the throttling engine, and the notification engine comprise stored program instructions embedded in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and

wherein the stored program instructions are executed by a computer processor to execute a function.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the representation of the summary comprises an audible notification.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the comparative resource usage metric comprises at least one of a user consumption metric and a block billing metric.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the user consumption metric further comprises at least one of a software run-time metric, a concurrent users metric, and a resource allocation metric.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an identity database configured to store an identity of each user in the group of users.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a stream selection engine configured to select a subset of the portion of the plurality of data streams for logging.

7. The system of claim 6 , further comprising a quantification engine configured to aggregate activity from the selected subset of the portion of the plurality of data streams to create a subset activity aggregate of the first user.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the subscription engine is further configured to generate a summary of a subset activity aggregate of the first user and wherein the rendering engine is configured to present a representation of the subset activity aggregate of the first user.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identity engine is further configured to identify an application for each data stream of the portion of data streams.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the comparative resource usage metric and the comparative operational feature metric are calculated based on local operations and cloud operations.