The Charge Category Spend report provides a detailed view of cloud spend for a selected charge category. It helps you understand how billed cost trends over time and how that charge category is distributed across charge frequency and pricing category.
This report is accessed by drilling down from the Charge Categories chart in the Cloud Charge dashboard and is scoped to a selected category.
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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 charge category.
Click on any month to drill into the related GL transactions.
Charge Frequencies
The Charge Frequencies chart breaks down billed cost by charge frequency for the selected charge category. This helps distinguish between recurring charges and usage-based charges within overall cloud spend.
Click on any frequency to drill into the related GL transactions.
Pricing Categories
The Pricing Categories chart shows billed cost split by pricing category for the selected charge category. This helps you understand how spend is distributed across different pricing models.
Click on any category to drill into the related GL transactions.
Cloud Charge Trend
This table provides a month-by-month view of billed cost for the selected charge category.
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 Frequencies |
Consumption Data |
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Pricing Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Cloud Charge Trend |
Consumption Data |