The dynamic cost explorer is a great tool to make custom reports, but we also provide some preconfigured reports that you can use "as is" or customize further.
The page is accessible trough the "Detailed Cost Analytics" section of your dashboards, click on the "+" icon (1):
We have 4 categories of preconfigured reports. This list will grow over time as we add more reports for all the cloud providers and more products.
HOURLY spending per Service over LAST 2 MONTHS
HOURLY spending per COST ALLOCATION UNITS over LAST 2 MONTHS
DAILY spending per Service over LAST 6 MONTHS
DAILY spending per COST ALLOCATION UNITS over LAST 6 MONTHS
DynamoDB READS - OnDemand vs Reserved requests HOURLY over LAST 3 MONTHS
DynamoDB costs per OnDemand vs Reserved capacity HOURLY over LAST 3 MONTHS
DynamoDB WRITES - OnDemand vs Reserved requests HOURLY over LAST 3 MONTHS
Control of commitment level DAILY over LAST 2 YEARS
Cost for AppEngine Standard, per AppEngine Service - DAILY over LAST MONTH
Cost for AppEngine Standard, per AppEngine Service and Operation - DAILY over LAST MONTH
Once on the page, to import a report in your account click on the arrow icon (1) .
A popup will appear with a form which lets you change the name and select parameters if any are required. For example for the report "DAILY spending per COST ALLOCATION UNITS over LAST 6 MONTHS" we have to choose the cost partitions to use:
Once imported, go back to your dashboard. Depending of the report, its complexity and the data to process, it can take some time before appearing.
When ready then you can click on its title (1), as other reports, to customize the parameters in the dynamic cost explorer etc.