The Charge Frequency Spend report provides a detailed view of cloud spend for a selected charge frequency. It helps you understand how that frequency contributes to spend over time and how it is distributed across charge categories and pricing categories.
This report is accessed by drilling down from the Charge Frequencies chart in the Cloud Charge dashboard and is scoped to a selected frequency.
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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 frequency.
Click on any month to drill into the related GL transactions.
Charge Categories
The Charge Categories chart shows a breakdown of cloud billed cost by charge category for the selected frequency. This helps you understand how much of total spend comes from different types of cloud charges.
Click on any category to drill into the related GL transactions.
Pricing Categories
The Pricing Categories chart shows billed cost split by pricing category for the selected charge frequency. 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 frequency.
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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Pricing Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Cloud Charge Trend |
Consumption Data |