Add a budget policy
Track expenditures on your Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform accounts. Track spend by cloud account, region, type of cloud service and resources tagged with custom attributes.
Configure budget policies and track spending against defined budgets and get alerts when spending exceeds budget.
- Select a client from the All Clients list.
- Go to Setup > Monitoring > Budget Policies, click + and enter:
Field Name | Description |
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Name | Provide a name for the budget policy |
Applies To | Select to what element the budget policy needs to be applied. Choose on what element the Policy needs to be created
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Select the cloud provider - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Account | |
Cloud Account | Select the cloud account |
Tags | Select the tag |
Scope of the budget | Monthly or Annually |
Budget limit | Enter the value for the budget limit |
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Cloud cost insights
The Cloud Cost Insights widget shows Months-to-Date spends of the public cloud by default. The user can choose a different timeline to show the total spends for the specific time period. You can view a breakdown of spending by cloud account, by custom attributes. For example, denote business units and other attributes.
To get the data into Cloud Cost Insights, configure the Cloud Cost Insights Widget:
On the Dashboard, click Add Widget.
Under Other Predefined Widget, click Cloud Cost Insights and enter:
Filter Criteria: Options include Provider Type, Cloud Account, Tags (that are assigned to resources)
Group by: Options include ProviderType, Tags, Resource Group, Instance type, License type
Widget Preferences: Refresh every 1 hour.
Display Preferences:
- Widget title: Enter a display title.
- Chart Style: Select a style (column or pie)
Cloud Cost Insights graph you can filter by any date range as shown in the following screenshot.
Cloud cost trend
The Cloud Cost Trend widget shows a trend of spending on public clouds over time. You can view trend by resource type, custom attributes, and other attributes.
- On the Dashboard, click Add Widget, point to Predefined Widget, and click Cloud Cost Trend.
- In Add Widget window, enter:
- Filter Criteria
- Provider Type: Filter by Cloud instance type, AWS, Azure or Google.
- Cloud Account: Filter by Cloud Account
- Tag: Filter by Tags, assigned to the resources.
- Group By: Tags, resource group, instance type and license type.
- Duration: Select the duration, a specific time period. Example: 3 Months.
- Estimate: Select +1M to estimate next month trend.
- Refresh every: Select the interval frequency to refresh.
- Widget Title: Enter a name for the Widget.
- Chart Style: Choose the chart style - Column or Pie chart.
- Filter Criteria
Cloud Cost Insights and Cloud Cost Trend widgets are shown only when the Manage Device and Collect Cost Analytics options are selected during cloud integration.