ISS Location API (Open Notify) · FinOps Profile

Iss Api Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for the Open Notify ISS API. The provider charges nothing; there is no invoice, no billing surface, and no API key. FinOps practice for consumers is entirely on the consumer side — optimizing the cost of downstream infrastructure (compute, egress, storage) that processes or caches ISS data, rather than any provider bill.

Iss Api Finops is the FinOps profile for ISS Location API (Open Notify) on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in N/A, on a n/a cycle, and pricing category free / open source.

The profile maps 9 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Space, ISS, Free, Public API, and Open Source.

Category: Public Open Data / Space Technology Pricing: Free / Open Source Billing: N/A FOCUS v1.3
SpaceISSFreePublic APIOpen SourceFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

Usage

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
N/A
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
N/A (no invoice issued)
PricingCategory
Free
PricingUnit
request
ProviderName
Open Notify
PublisherName
Nathan Bergey / Open Notify
ServiceCategory
Public Open Data / Space Technology
ServiceName
Open Notify ISS API

Meters

iss_location_requests
Unit: request
Number of GET /iss-now.json calls made by the consumer
astronaut_requests
Unit: request
Number of GET /astros.json calls made by the consumer
data_egress
Unit: bytes
Bytes received from api.open-notify.org (consumer-side metric)

Sources

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