In the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cost model you can add a cost per CPU usage, per CPU request or per CPU effective usage.

A lot of software is licensed/subscribed per CPU core (or per vCPU). None of the metrics we currently have are useful for that. Let's add a "metric = node, measurement = per CPU core/month" and/or "metric = node, measurement = per vCPU/month" so that our cost models can be used to distribute the cost of subscriptions.

CPU cores vs vCPUs

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.5/html/planning_your_deployment/subscriptions_rhocs#cores-versus-vcpus-and-hyperthreading_rhocs

While on this, let's also add a "metric = node, measurement = per CPU core/hour" and/or "metric = node, measurement = per vCPU/hour" because it will act as a stopgap solution and pave the way for COST-5714.