See where the money goes
The Costs section starts with a summary of the period, and an explorer to slice the billed cost by service, account, provider, tag and more.
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Overview
Costs → Overview.
- Date range
- Pick the period to analyse. Every figure on the page follows it. The default is the last 30 days.
- Spend at a glance
- Total cost versus the previous period of the same length, the projected monthly cost, and your top service and account.
- Charts
- Daily Cost Trend shows the total per day, to spot spikes and changes in the run rate. Cost by Provider and Cost by Category (compute, storage, network…) show where it goes.
- Top services and accounts
- The highest-cost services and accounts in the range, with their share of the total.
Cost Explorer
Costs → Cost Explorer.
- Group By
- Group the spend by service, account, provider, category, allocation group, usage type, resource or a tag, and aggregate it by day, week or month (Temporal Aggregation).
- Filters
- Focus on, or exclude, specific accounts, providers, categories, allocation groups, services and usage types. Pick a value to Show only this or Exclude this; Reset clears every filter.
- Breakdown table
- One column per period, with the filtered totals and the projected monthly run rate for the current filters.
- Tags
- Grouping by a tag shows what each value costs; spend without the tag appears as (untagged). Some tags are filled in by the app rather than read from the bill, and the explorer warns you when you group by one of them.
About the figures
- Billed cost
- Both pages report the billed cost imported from your providers, so they need billing data (see Cost Aggregation).
- Empty period
- A period with no data shows an empty page. Widen the date range, or check that the accounts import billing data.
- Freshness
- The time next to Refresh shows when the figures were computed; Refresh recalculates them.