The Cloud Charge dashboard provides an overview of cloud spend through a charging lens—showing billed cost over time and breaking it down by charge category, charge frequency, and pricing category.
Scope
This dashboard includes:
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Billed cost breakdown by:
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Charge category
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Charge frequency
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Pricing category
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Data is sourced from the cloud consumption file loaded to the application.
Who should use this dashboard?
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IT Management
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IT Finance and FinOps teams
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Cloud Management and Cloud Architects
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IT Executives
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Product and Service Owners
What is this dashboard used for?
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Monitoring overall billed cost trends month by month
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Understanding whether spend is driven more by recurring vs usage-based charges
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Reviewing how spend is distributed across different pricing categories
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Spotting shifts in charge patterns that may explain increases or anomalies in spend
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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Is your cloud spend mainly usage-based or recurring?
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Which charge categories are driving the most billed cost?
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Which pricing categories represent the largest share of spend?
Key benefits
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Explains cost movement using charge category/frequency/pricing breakdowns
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Helps validate whether charges align to expected billing patterns (recurring/usage-based)
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Monthly view helps spot spikes and shifts early
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Identify the cloud charge trends.
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KPIs
Charts and tables
Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.
Monthly Spend
The Monthly Spend chart compares monthly cloud billed cost, effective cost, and list cost for the selected year.
Click on any spend column to drill into a specific month and view a detailed breakdown of cloud billed costs for that period.
Charge Categories
The Charge Categories chart shows a breakdown of cloud billed cost by charge category for the selected year. This helps you understand how much of total spend comes from different types of cloud charges.
Click on any category to drill further into the Charge Category Spend report.
Charge Frequencies
The Charge Frequencies chart breaks down billed cost by charge frequency for the selected year. This helps distinguish between recurring charges and usage-based charges within overall cloud spend.
Click on any frequency to drill further into the Charge Frequency Spend report.
Pricing Categories
The Pricing Categories chart shows billed cost split by pricing category for the selected year. This helps you understand how spend is distributed across different pricing models.
Click on any category to drill further into the Pricing Categories Spend report.
Cloud Charge Trend
The Cloud Charge Trend table shows monthly billed cost across charge categories. This provides a detailed month-by-month view of how each charge category contributes to total spend over time.
Data sources
The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.
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Chart name |
Data cube |
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Monthly Spend |
Consumption Data |
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Charge Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Charge Frequencies |
Consumption Data |
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Pricing Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Charge Category Trend |
Consumption Data |