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Summary of Spend Analytics
The Spend analytics page provides visibility into your cloud costs, including cloud, Kubernetes, and shared resources spending over specified time ranges or cost types. Users with the insightsowner role will see only the accounts assigned to them in the filters and data.
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Key Features
- Cloud Spend Analytics: Analyze cloud spending by selecting a time range and grouping data by provider, purchase option, region, service account, service category, cloud service, resource group, or tag category. Sort results by the current month or selected time ranges (3, 6, 9, or 12 months).
- Kubernetes Spend Analytics: Review Kubernetes spending by time range, grouping by Kubernetes cluster, namespace, or tag category. Choose between actual or amortized cost, and sort results similarly to cloud spend analytics.
- Shared Cost Analytics: Examine spending on shared resources with similar grouping and sorting options as the cloud and Kubernetes analytics. Understand direct and shared costs for cloud resources.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Spend analytics features, customers can effectively monitor and manage their cloud expenditures, gain insights into their resource usage, and optimize costs. Access to detailed analytics helps in making informed financial decisions regarding cloud resource allocation and budgeting.
The Spend analytics page helps you gain visibility to your cloud costs by displaying your cloud, Kubernetes, and shared resources spend over a time range or a cost type that you specify.
Important:
If you have the insights_owner role, only the accounts that are assigned to you appear in the filters and data.
Use the Spend analytics page to view the following:
- Cloud spend analytics
- Kubernetes spend analytics
- Shared cost analytics
Note:
You can't view the spend of your resources for nested tag values. For example, {"name":"test","created-by":"xyz","prod":"false","shared_resource":"false"}.
Cloud spend analytics
Select the Cloud spend analytics tab to do the following tasks:
- Understand how you currently spend on cloud resources for a period that you can select in the Time range field.
- Group the cloud spend analytics by using either of the following values:
- Provider
- Purchase option
- Region
- Service account
- Service category
- Cloud service
- Resource group
- Tag category
- Sort your cloud spend results by the current month or select a time range such as 3, 6, 9, or 12 months.
- Get a better picture of your results by searching and selecting values through the following filters:
- Provider
- Master Service Account
- Service account
- Region
- Service category
- Cloud service
- Purchase option
- Resource group
- Tag categoryNote:For more information about tag categories and the list of default tag categories, see Tags and tag categories and List of default tag categories.
- Tag values
- Tag categories selected
Kubernetes spend analytics
Select the Kubernetes spend analytics tab to do the following tasks:
- Understand how you currently spend on Kubernetes on the cloud for a period that you can select in the Time range field.
- Group the Kubernetes spend analytics by using either of the following values:
- Kubernetes cluster
- Kubernetes namespace
- Tag category
- Select the cost type as Actual cost or Amortized cost.
- Actual cost: Each billing period, your organization pays for direct cloud services.
- Amortized cost: Your organization pays the effective cost of the upfront and monthly reservation fees spread across the billing period. The amortized cost type is described in detail on the provider site.
- Sort your Kubernetes spend results by the current month or select a time range such as 3, 6, 9, or 12 months.
- Get a better picture of your results by searching and selecting values through the following filters:
- Provider
- Master Service Account
- Service account
- Region
- Kubernetes cluster
- Kubernetes namespace
- Purchase option
- Resource group
- Tag categoryNote:For more information about tag categories and the list of default tag categories, see Tags and tag categories and List of default tag categories.
- Tag value
- Tag categories selected
- View details of cost per Kubernetes cluster and cost per Kubernetes namespace.
Shared cost analytics
Select the Shared cost analytics tab to do the following tasks:
- Understand how you currently spend on shared cloud resources for a period that you can select in the Time range field.
- Group the Shared cost analytics by using either of the following values:
- Provider
- Purchase option
- Region
- Service account
- Service category
- Cloud service
- Resource group
- Tag category
- Select Cost type as Actual cost or Amortized cost.
- Actual cost: Each billing period, your organization pays for direct cloud services.
- Amortized cost: Your organization pays the effective cost of the upfront and monthly reservation fees spread across the billing period. The amortized cost type is described in detail on the provider site.
- Sort your shared resources cost results by the current month or select a time range such as 3, 6, 9, or 12 months.
- Get a better picture of your results by searching and selecting values through the following filters:
- Provider
- Master Service Account
- Service account
- Region
- Service category
- Cloud service
- Purchase option
- Resource group
- Tag categoryNote:For more information about tag categories and the list of default tag categories, see Tags and tag categories and List of default tag categories.
- Tag value
- Tag categories selected
- View details of the direct cost and shared cost of your cloud resources.