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Resource Cost & Usage Management

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Overview

The HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP) lets you monitor resource utilization and costs of your cloud resources. Key features of cost and usage management are:

  • Continuous monitoring of resource utilization and costs

  • Customizable views of costs and usage across multiple accounts

  • Query your resources based on date ranges, resource groups, and tags

  • Visually analyze resource costs and usage at account, service, sub-service and resource levels

  • Share cost and usage reports

This page covers the following topics:

  • View Resource Cost & Usage
  • Saved Reports
  • Report Scheduling
    • Duration
    • Frequency / Scheduling

View Resource Cost & Usage

If you want to view the cost and usage statistics for your resources on the HCP:

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Cost & Usage.

  3. Select the Report from the dropdown.

  4. Enter the duration for which you want to vie the cost and usage details.

  5. Click to add your cloud account to the Accounts section.

  6. Additionally, you can use the Services, Resource Groups (for Microsoft Azure) or Tags filters to your report Query.

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  1. The resultant graph shows the total accounts-wise costs.

  2. You can view the account details in a table below the graph.

  3. To view further details for an account, click View Detail.

    • If it’s a Microsoft Azure account, you can drill-down to view these details:

      • Services > Sub-Services > Resources and Usage.

    • For Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts:

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  • You cannot view the Sub-Service level details.

      • You can only view the Cost and Usage Report (CUR) for services

      • To download the CUR report, click Export.

 

In case the account is a CSP account, tenant/customer should have mark up set by cloud administrator and monitor enabled on least one of the subscriptions else there will be a notification for configuration when a tenant lands on the Azure CSP page.

Every tenant role has to go through the CSP-Tenant linking process and also that customer once linked has to have mark up set along with monitoring enabled on any one of the subscription. All these set of requirements are fulfilled by the cloud administrator while or after on-boarding a customer to HCP as a tenant; else the behavior of the tenant will be no different than a normal tenant without CSP features.

Saved Reports

You can save your cost and usage reports and view them anytime without having to enter the filter criteria. To save your filtered report, click Save from the Filtering panel to the left.

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You can share your saved reports with your HCP users with a:

  • Cloud or Tenant administrator role

  • Governance & Security role

  • If you are the report creator and owner.

To share a report:

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Cost & Usage > Saved Reports.

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    1. Click the ellipsis menu under Actions.

    2. Click Share and enter the name of the Users with whom you want to share the report.

    You can view, share, and delete an existing report via the Saved Reports page.

    Report Scheduling

    Cost and Usage reports have the capability to schedule an automated run and delivery of the reports to end user emails. The Scheduling is dependent on two parameters:

    Duration

    1. Login to you HCP account.

    2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Cost & Usage > Select Duration, Partner, Tenant and Account > Save as New Report.

    3. There are five option available for duration:

       
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      • 7 Days: This displays and generates a report for 7 days of subscription.

      • 1 Month: This displays and generates a report for 30 days of subscription.

      • 3 Months: This displays and generates a report for 90 days of subscription.

      • Billing Period: This displays and generates a report as per the billing cycle of the subscription.

      • Custom: Custom has two option for report generation

        • Date Range: This displays and generate report for the selected date range of a Subscription.

        • No of Days: Option to select no of days and displays and generate report from no. of days set to till date.

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      Frequency / Scheduling

      1. Login to you HCP account.

      2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Cost & Usage > Saved Report > Particular Report to Schedule > Action > View Schedule.

      3. The options available to schedule the automated run and delivery of the reports to end user emails.

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        • Weekly: Sends report weekly as per the duration type of the report.        

        • Monthly: Sends report monthly as per the duration type of the report.

        • Billing Cycle: Sends report according to the billing cycle and as per the duration type of the report.

        • No Schedule: When a schedule is removed from a report, only then is no schedule set.

      For each Duration, the Schedule options will work as per the following tables:

      Saved Report Duration: 7 Days

      By Default, Frequency set to Weekly

       
       

      Report Schedule

      Reports Content

      Daily

      Daily send last 7 days rolling report

      Weekly

      Weekly send last 7 days rolling report

      Monthly

      Monthly send last 7 days rolling report

      Billing Schedule

      Send last 7 days rolling report at last day of billing period
       

      Saved Report Duration: 1 Month

      By Default, Frequency set to Monthly

       

      Report Schedule

      Reports Content

      Daily

      Daily send last 90 days rolling report

      Weekly

      Weekly send last 90 days rolling report

      Monthly

      Monthly send last 90 days rolling report

      Billing Schedule

      Send last 90 days rolling report at last day of billing period
       

      Saved Report Duration: 3 Months

      By Default, Frequency set to Monthly

       

      Report Schedule

      Reports Content

      Daily

      Daily send last 90 days rolling report

      Weekly

      Weekly send last 90 days rolling report

      Monthly

      Monthly send last 90 days rolling report

      Billing Schedule

      Send last 90 days rolling report at last day of billing period
       

      Saved Report Duration: Billing Period

      By Default, Frequency set to Billing Schedule

       

      Report Schedule

      Reports Content

      Daily

      Daily send current billing start date to-date rolling report

      Weekly

      Weekly current billing start date to-date rolling report

      Monthly

      Monthly current billing start date to-date rolling report

      Billing Schedule

      Send report matching billing period at the end of the billing date + 2 days
       

      Saved Report Custom

      By Default, Frequency set to Monthly

       

      Custom - Date Range

      The report scheduled would send report for the specific period

      Custom - No of Days:

      The report Scheduled would send report for the no. of days set including till date.
       
       

      Note: Billing Schedule would not work for Custom Duration.

      Daily: Sends report daily as per the duration type of the report.

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