The Pricing Category Spend report provides a detailed view of cloud spend for a selected pricing category. It helps you understand how that pricing category contributes to overall spend and how it breaks down across charge categories and charge frequencies.
This report is accessed by drilling down from the Pricing Categories chart in the Cloud Charge dashboard and is scoped to a selected pricing 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 pricing category.
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 pricing category. 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.
Charge Frequencies
The Charge Frequencies chart breaks down billed cost by charge frequency for the selected pricing 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.
Cloud Charge Trend
This table provides a month-by-month view of billed cost for the selected pricing 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 Categories |
Consumption Data |
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Charge Frequencies |
Consumption Data |
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Cloud Charge Trend |
Consumption Data |