Usage data management ensures that the raw consumption signals from a product are accurately captured, deduplicated, enriched, and made available to the billing system in time for invoice generation. Inaccurate usage data leads to billing errors and customer disputes.

Example: A cloud platform processes billions of usage events per day from its customers. Its usage data management pipeline ingests raw API logs, deduplicates retried calls, aggregates consumption by customer and billing period, and feeds the totals to the billing engine for invoice calculation.