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Cost Explorer
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Last updated: 2025-03-31 16:12:48
Cost Explorer
Last updated: 2025-03-31 16:12:48
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Overview

Cost Explorer is a basic feature of cost management. It helps you analyze your bill data flexibly and efficiently and gives you a clearer understanding of your cloud costs.
Cost report feature allows you to save the filter condition of cost analysis as a snapshot that can be easily referenced and shared.

Cost Explorer

Log in to the Tencent Cloud with your customer account and enter the Billing Center, and click Cost Management > Cost Explorer in the left sidebar to enter the Cost Explorer page.

Time period

Cost data can be displayed for a specified time period or a relative time period at daily, and monthly granularities.
Specified period: Select the start date and the end date in the calendar.
Daily granularity can display data from within the last 31 days. Monthly granularity can display data from within the last 6 months.

Relative period: Select a time period from the top of the calendar. This is mainly used to automatically update a regularly occurring cost report.
Daily granularity supports the last 7, 14, and 30 days. Monthly granularity supports the last 1, 3, and 6 months.


Categories

You can select different categories to aggregate and display your costs based on different dimensions.
Categories include product, subproduct, region, availability zone, transaction type, tag, project, payer account.
Note:
The chart displays only the first 10 items for the selected category. Any remaining items are summarized as "others". You can view and download the full data in the Cost Details table displayed under the chart.


Chart types

You can change the chart type to stacked bar chart, line chart, and bar chart.


Cost details

The detailed cost data supports pagination queries and downloads. Simply click the download button to export the data.


Cost filters

Cost filters allow you to further refine the target costs you want to display. You can filter costs by selecting multiple criteria to be included or excluded.
Cost filtering capabilities include spend type (Total Cost and Original Cost), product, subproduct, region, availability zone, transaction type, billing mode, tag, project, payer account.


Cost Report

1. Click Save as report button on cost explorer page, input the report name and click Confirm to save the filter condition as a snapshoot.
2. Click Cost Management > Cost Report in the left sidebar to view the three presets cost report created by Tencent Cloud and your custom saved reports. Preset reports cannot be deleted.


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