Overview

Users can find the summary information of consumption within the specified time frame through the expense overview. It mainly includes the consumption of the platform for Current Month Cost, Current Yeat Cost, Cost Trends and the percentage of consumption under different dimensions.

Entry: In the cloud management platform click on the top left corner navigation menu, and click “Cost/Overview” menu item in the left menu bar that pops up to enter the overview page.

• By clicking “All”, “On-premise”, “Private Cloud”, and “Public Cloud” tabs at the top, you can view current month cost and comparison with last month, current year cost, cost trend, and consumption ratio under different conditions for All, On-premise, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud respectively.
• Bill shared: When bill shared is enabled, the platform will spread the cost of the prepaid resource package to each day or month. The consumption amount on the cost overview page will change to the cost of pay per volume + the cost of prepaid package apportioned to each day or month. If you view the consumption trend of this month, the prepaid fee will be apportioned to each day, and if you view the data of this quarter or year, the prepaid fee will be apportioned to each month.
• When only one currency of bills exists in the platform, the drop-down list will not be displayed by default. When there are bills in multiple currencies at the same time, a drop-down list will appear in the upper right corner to switch the bills in the corresponding currencies, currently supporting RMB bills, USD bills and BRL bills.
  • When the “Multi-currency bill Combined” is enabled in the global configuration, all bills will be displayed in a certain currency through the exchange rate conversion instead of directly displaying the bills in a specific currency.
  • When the “Origin Bill” is enabled in the global configuration, in the domain view and project view, there will be a drop-down option to display the original bill in the corresponding currency.
• Time: Support to view cost trends and the percentage of consumption under different dimensions in this month, last month, this quarter, last quarter, this year or custom time.

View Cost Overview

• Current Month Cost: View the amount spent on the platform during this month.

  Description

  Negative numbers in the bill are due to refunds arising, such as early release refunds for prepaid machines, refunds following the use of coupons, and refunds for other benefits enjoyed by the account.

• Current Yeat Cost: View the amount spent on the platform during the current year.
• Cost Trends: View consumption amounts, consumption trends and forecast cost for the this month, last month, this quarter, last quarter, this year or custom time period in a bar graph format.

  Description

  Currently, only this month and this year cost trends support forecast cost data.

  • This month: When historical billing data exists for more than 30 days, you can forecast all forecasted charges for the rest of the month, and if historical billing data exists for less than 30 days, you can forecast forecasted charges for half of the time of the historical bills that have been issued.
  • This year: When there is more than one year of historical billing data, you can forecast all the forecasted charges for the rest of the current year, and if there is less than one year of historical billing data, you can forecast the forecasted charges for half of the time of the historical bills that have been issued.
• Support for clicking on the icon to view the consumption amount and percentage of total consumption for different platforms, resource types, resources, cloud accounts, cloud subscriptions, regions, billing modes, domains (departments), projects, tags, or custom for this month, last month, this quarter, last quarter, this year or custom time.
  • Platform: Shows the consumption amount and proportion of different platforms on the cloud management platform in the form of a list, and the total consumption cost and the consumption amount and proportion of different platforms in the form of a ring chart.
  • Resource Type: Shows the consumption amount and proportion of different resource types (servers and cloud drives) on the cloud management platform in the form of a list; shows the total consumption cost of the cloud management platform and the consumption amount and proportion of different resource types in the form of a ring chart.
  • Resources: Display the calculated resources and consumption amount of consumption TOP N (default is TOP 10, support modifying to TOP 10, TOP 20, TOP 30, all) on the platform in the form of bar chart and list, support filtering the calculated resources and consumption amount of consumption TOP N by resource type. The bar chart includes only resource name and consumption amount, and the list includes resource name, resource type, project and cost information. Support clicking the top right corner of icon to export the corresponding bill data.
  • Cloud accounts: The consumption amount of cloud accounts that consume TOP N (default is TOP 10, support to modify to TOP 10, TOP 20, TOP 30, all) on cloud management platform in the form of bar chart and list. Support clicking the top right corner of icon to export the corresponding bill data.
  • Cloud subscriptions: Display the consumption amount of cloud subscriptions that consume TOP N (default is TOP 10, support modifying to TOP 10, TOP 20, TOP 30, all) on the cloud management platform in the form of bar graph and list. Support clicking the top right corner of icon to export the corresponding bill data.
  • Region: Display the consumption amount and ratio of cloud management platform under different regions in the form of list; display the total consumption cost of cloud management platform and the consumption amount and ratio under different regions in the form of ring chart.
  • Billing mode: To display the amount and proportion of consumption of postpaid and prepaid type billing modes on the cloud management platform in the form of a list; to display the total amount of consumption of the cloud management platform and the amount and proportion of consumption under different billing modes in the form of a ring chart.
  • Domains : Displays the consumption amount and proportion of different domains on the cloud account in the form of a list; displays the total consumption cost of the cloud account and the consumption amount and proportion of different domains in the form of a ring chart. It is not visible under the project view.
  • Projects: Click “Projects” button and select the domain in the pop-up dialog box, if not filled, it represents the statistics of items under all domains. Display the item name and consumption amount of TOP N (default is TOP 10, support to modify to TOP 10, TOP 20, TOP 30, All) consumption on the specified domain or platform in the form of bar chart and list.Support clicking the top right corner of icon to export the corresponding bill data.
  • Tag: Click “Tag” button, select the tag in the pop-up input box, view the amount and proportion of resource consumption corresponding to different tag values under the specified tag in the form of a list; view the total amount of consumption under the specified tag, the amount and proportion of resource consumption corresponding to different tag values in the form of a ring chart.
  • Custom: Click “Custom” button, select the custom dimension in the pop-up input box, and view the amount and proportion of resource consumption corresponding to different dimension items under the specified dimension in the form of a list; view the total amount of consumption under the specified dimension, the amount and proportion of consumption corresponding to different dimension values in the form of a ring chart.