Chapter 1. What is the subscriptions service? The subscriptions service provides reporting of subscription usage information across the constituent parts of your hybrid infrastructure, including physical and virtual technology deployments; on-premise and cloud environments; and cluster, instance, and workload use cases for Red Hat product portfolios. The subscriptions service supports the following product portfolios: Unified reporting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription usage information for physical, virtual, hypervisor, and public cloud based usage. This unified reporting model enhances your ability to consume, track, report, and reconcile your RHEL subscriptions with your purchasing agreements and deployment types. Reporting of Red Hat OpenShift subscription usage information. The subscriptions service uses data available from Red Hat internal subscription services, in addition to data from Red Hat OpenShift reporting tools, to show aggregated cluster usage data in the context of Red Hat OpenShift subscription types such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions. Other Red Hat OpenShift products and add-ons consume resources differently, so the tracking of that usage can vary per product. In general, that usage can be represented as a combination of one or more metrics, such as data transfer and data storage for workload activities and instance availability for the consumption of control plane resources. Usage can also be represented as cluster usage data for the virtual cores. Reporting of Red Hat Ansible subscription usage information. The subscriptions service uses data available from Ansible services to show this usage. The simplified, consistent subscription reporting experience shows your account-wide Red Hat subscriptions compared to your total inventory across all deployments and programs. It is an at-a-glance impression of both your account's remaining subscription capacity measured against a subscription threshold and the historical record of your software usage. The subscriptions service provides increased and ongoing visibility of your subscription usage. By pairing the subscriptions service with simple content access to streamline the consumption of your subscriptions, your operations experience fewer barriers to Red Hat content deployment and usage tracking. You can choose to use neither, either, or both of these services. However, the subscriptions service and simple content access are designed as complementary services and function best when they are used in tandem. Simple content access simplifies the subscription experience by allowing more flexible ways of consuming content. The subscriptions service provides account-wide visibility of usage across your subscription profile, adding governance capabilities to this flexible content consumption. To learn more about the simple content access tool and how you can use it with the subscriptions service, see the Getting Started with Simple Content Access guide. Note In October and November of 2024, Red Hat accounts and organizations that primarily use Red Hat Subscription Management for subscription management were migrated to use simple content access. For Red Hat accounts and organizations that primarily use Satellite, versions 6.15 and earlier can continue to support an entitlement-based workflow for the remainder of the supported lifecycle for those versions. However, Satellite version 6.16 and later versions will support only the simple content access workflow.

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