The Cost Analysis tool is an interface for viewing your OCI consumption. You can access it in the Console from the Cost Management section under Governance and Administration. This tool lets you build queries to visualize your consumption grouped or filtered by parameters that you want to attribute costs by such as tags or compartments. Cost analysis enables you to visualize your consumption on a time series.
Now, you can also analyze your data with multiple grouping dimensions and visualize consumption based on these dimensions instead of only time to better understand consumption across different business units or projects in your organization. Use the Custom Tabs feature in Cost Analysis.
Creating a custom tab
When you access the cost analysis page, you default to the Cost by Service System report. To create a custom tab, click the Add Tab button.
This selection opens the Add Custom Tab side panel. Name your custom tab and select the column and row dimensions from the list of options. To create the custom tab, click the Add button.
The new tab is created for the same time range as your query. The row dimension is the horizontal axis on the graph and the stacked bars represent the column dimensions. This same data is in tabular format after the graph, and you can export it in CSV format from the Tab Actions menu. The Tab Actions menu also allows you to edit or delete a tab. Editing a tab includes renaming it or changing the dimensions used.
Continued access to a custom tab
You can create up to five custom tabs in a report and access these custom tabs during your session. You continue to have access to the custom tabs that you create beyond your session and share them with other users by saving them as part of a saved report. Click the Save as New Report button within the tab or next to the report selector. All tabs on each page are saved as part of the new saved report created, and you don’t have to repeat this process for each tab.
Any changes to the query parameters, such as changes to the date range or addition of a filter, automatically apply to all the tabs in a report.
Try it yourself
Controlling costs on their cloud implementation is one of the top concerns of most organizations. You can use this new feature in Cost Analysis to analyze consumption across your organization, not just over time but also across multiple dimensions based on your business needs. You can analyze data from multiple angles, easily retain views that matter to you, and share them every easily with your peers. This capability helps you stay on top of your budgetary targets and cost attribution requirements.
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