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Consumption

The "Consumption" dashboard presents data about daily usage of resources from your organization in a given cloud provider, enabling a clear and detailed view of your cloud expending. Information is segmented per workspace, service and SKU.

  • Usage date: date of resource consumption, regardless of when this usage was billed.

    • Loading and updates of billing data

    Data is collected on a daily basis at 08:00 (America/Sao Paulo).

    • Last update: Last time when billing data was loaded into our platform.

    Prerequisites

    1⃣ Service Account registered on the integrations section must have all necessary read permissions:

    On the BigQuery table containing the billing data export.

    On the bucket with the files containing the billing data.

    On the storage container that keeps the files with billing data.

    2⃣ Data must be loaded into the section financial structure.

    After integrating with our platform it is necessary to load your financial structure so the billing data can be properly processed.

    3⃣ Availability of the billing data for each cloud provider:

    • Billing data must be available on the BigQuery table that was chosen on the integration steps.

    Usually this data is sent to the BigQuery table with a delay of at most 24 hours after configuring the billing data export on GCP. Depending on the load and environment this can take more time. Further details can be found on the provider's documentation.

    • Files containing the billing data must be available on the appropriate storage buckets that where chosen on the integration process.

    After enabling the report it can take up to 24 hours until these files are exported to the S3 bucket. More information is avaible on the documentation of the provider.

    • Files containing the billing data export msut be available on the storage containers configured on the integration steps. Normally it takes 4 hours for the first data files to be available on the container storage from the moment the export is configure on the Azure Portal. More information about this process can be found on the provider's documentation.

    Without integration

    When an user opts to skip the integration steps while acessing the platform for the first time an image is shown. This is to guide him through the necessary steps to load and visualize his data on the platform.

    Filters

    Filters are crucial to enable a detailed analysis of the data, highlighting specific information and easing informed decision making.

    • Provider → Found on the upper bar, this refers to cloud services provider used. Making it possible to integrate another provider through the button

    • Usage period → Indicates the period in which the resource was consumed, therefore it is not possible to choose a future date.

    • Cost center → Cost centers are units that aggregate spending associated to specific activities or departments.

    • Cost center Manager → Name and e-mail of the manager responsible for the cost center.

    • Workspace→ Name and provider of the associated workspace.

    • GCP → Project Name
    • AWS →  AccountID

    • Azure → Subscription Name

    • Service → Name/Provider of the service.

    The period filter enables visualizing the costs of your enterprise in a specific interval, facilitating an improved comprehension of your resource consumption on the cloud.

    Beyond that, other filters offer options for a detailed analysis based on a cost center, manager, workspace or specific service. This promotes a segmented and strategic view of your financial data.

    It is possible to combine filter options to refine your analysis. Each selected filter adjusts the available options on the other filters automatically, providing the means to a focused search. For example: in selecting the cost center 'Financial' the filter for workspaces will show only the workspaces that are related to this cost center.

    Resetting filters

    You can clear all selected filter options using the 'Clear all' option, you also can clear specific options by clicking on the 'x' icon next to the selected filter.

    Consumption totals

    The total consumption is composed of all the credited and debited values throughout the period:

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    Consumption

    Obs: The symbol “R$” in blue indicates credited values, while the “R$” in red represents debted values.

    • Resource consumption → Costs related to all resources being utilized.

    • Support → Costs related to the support fee of each cloud provider.

    • Commited Usage → Discounts related to continuous usage based on the resources.

    Important

    All negotiations related to commited usage must be made exclusively and directly with each cloud provider.

    • Credits → Credits estabilished through a contract with the cloud provider.

    • Total consumption → Value to be paid taking in consideration discounts, credits and adjustments.

    Reports

    We offer report generation with a maximum period of 31 days, in CSV, making a detailed analysis of resources possible. For more informations visit the reports section.

    Charts - Consumption per workspace

    Exhibits the daily usage and distribuition of resource consumption per workspace.

    Workspace → Onicloud component that unifies the following concepts:

    • GCP Project → A GCP project is a container that organizes resources and related services, manages permissions and controls billing.

    • AWS Account → An AWS account is the level at which resources are provisioned, managed and organized, including multiple VPCs, projects and services.

    • Azure Subscription → An Azure subscription is a billing account where resources are provisioned, also where permissions and policies are managed.

    Consumption

    Shows daily consumption per service in dollars. Increasing the period range in the filter will make the date indicators adjust automaticaly, exhibiting a larger interval between them. The data points shown still correspond to daily usage idenpendent of the selected date interval. To visualize consumption details of a specific day you just need to place the mouse cursor over the it's corresponding point on the line in the graph. On all charts the top 10 workspaces with most cost are shown, the rest are unified under the "Others" tag.

    Consumption

    Shows the distribution of consumption per workspace, detailed by percentual in each one.

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    Legends

    The graph legends appear in decreasing order, left to right, facilitating identification of the most expensive workspaces. Each appear listed by it's name and ID (except when it's an AWS workspace, where we show the ID two times because of the way the data is supplied by the provider)

    Clicking each name enables the exhibition of the complete name for that workspace. It also shows the "Others" category, which indicates the quantity of workspaces with costs in the given period but are not part of the top 10 most expensive ones.

    The other charts follow the same logic for exhibition.


    Service

    Shows daily consumption and usage distribuition per service via two graphs in timeline and in pizza format, like in the graphs for workspace.

    The original names are shown for each service in each provider, without changes. For example: the virtual machine services on GCP is called Compute Engine, on AWS it is called Elastic Compute Cloud.


    SKU / Usage category

    This concept was unified to encompass all providers. On GCP it refers to a stockeeping unit that identifies variations or services being offered. On AWS and Azure it is a nomenclature for service that specifies the specific service and unit of measure used for billing, bringing a detailed traceable view of resource consumption.s

    This way we bring workspace and service on the same chart.