Streaming Ingestion — Ingests usage at bulk scale from S3 drops, Kafka topics, or SFTP files rather than one API call at a time. It feeds the same mediation pipeline as the event API, giving high-volume and legacy sources an equal path into metering.
Streaming Ingestion (S3/Kafka/SFTP) lives in the Consume & Meter phase of Fulfill & Bill — the stage where you activate what was sold, meter what's used, bill it right. In the corpus tool index this phase maps to the Meteringcategory.
The critical requirements that test this capability in UsagePricing's Usage-based billing & metering rubric — scored tool profiles link from the list below.
Does the meter stay correct at production event volumes?
The bar: Streaming + API ingestion with idempotency keys, dedup, late-event policy, and documented high-volume operation.