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.
To use Cost Explorer, log in to the Billing Center, and click Cost Management > Cost Explorer in the left sidebar to enter the Cost Explorer page.
Cost Explorer Features
Time period
Cost data can be displayed for a specified time period or a relative time period at hourly, daily, and monthly granularities.
Specified period: Select the start date and the end date in the calendar.
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, and the month to date. Monthly granularity supports the last 3, 6, and 12 months, and the year to date.
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Hourly granularity supports a maximum of 30 days.Daily granularity can display data from within the last 180 days. Monthly granularity can display data from within the last 12 months.
Categories
You can select different categories to aggregate and display your costs based on different dimensions.
One category can be selected at a time. The chart displays the categorized cost data over a certain period of time.
Categories include spend type, bill type, product, subproduct, component type, component name, resource ID, region, availability zone, transaction type, billing mode, tag, project, payer account, and user account.
Note:
The organization account administrator can assign cost analysis viewing permissions to member accounts under "finance authorization". For more details, please refer to Adding Organization Member.
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.
Spend types and bill types
Spend types and bill types are integrated into standard analytical dimensions, supporting categorized summary queries and advanced filtering.
Spend Type: The default display is the total amount (the total price after discounts), which can be broken down into payment types such as cash, coupons, and gift money in the categorized summary. You can switch to the original price, and the data will reflect the original price bill, allowing for a comparison of the original price and the total cost difference in the categorized summary.
Bill Type: You have the option to toggle between bills and consumption bills (which needs to be enabled first). In the classification summary, both can be compared side by side on the same screen.
Chart types
You can change the chart type to stacked bar chart, line chart, or bar chart.
Cost details
The detailed cost data supports pagination queries and downloads. Simply click the download button to export the data.
The Settings button allows for the customization of table row height and shading, as well as the number of decimal places in charts (supports two and eight places).
Advanced filters
Advanced 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.
Advanced filtering capabilities include spend type, bill type, product, sub-product, component type, component name, resource ID, region, availability zone, billing mode, transaction type/consumption type, tag, project, payer account, and user account.
Cost Report
The cost report feature allows you to save the results of cost analysis as a report that can be easily referenced and shared. You can create a cost report from the Cost Explorer page, and you can edit or delete a report after it’s created.
The report will save all the settings you configured in Cost Explorer. If the time is set to a relative time period, the cost report will be updated automatically.
Tencent Cloud provides three preset cost reports that can be viewed in the Cost Report page: Daily costs by service, Daily costs report, and Monthly costs by service. These preset reports cannot be modified or deleted.
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