By default, Vantage provides you with a Cost Report, named All Resources, that will show you all costs across all your connected cloud service accounts. You can create as many Cost Reports as you’d like and filter your costs across several dimensions. As you create Cost Reports, they will be displayed on the Overview page. Each report will automatically generate a forecast.Documentation Index
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Create a Cost Report
- Open the date picker menu.
- In the left column, select Custom.
- On the calendar section, select your desired date range. (The current month is selected by default.)
- Under Comparing to Previous Period, select the first date period field and select a custom comparison period.
- Click Apply.
- You can also enable or disable the previous period comparison on a report. Click the toggle next to the Previous Period on the Date Picker to toggle this setting on or off.
- Cumulative: Displayed as a line, pie, or area chart on the graph, along with a forecast for line and area charts, if available. Also available as ungrouped bar charts.
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Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly: Displayed as a bar (multi-bar and stacked options), line, or area chart, with date ranges binned on the bottom axis and a forecast, if available.
Quarters are based on the below ranges:
- Q1: January 1–March 31
- Q2: April 1–June 30
- Q3: July 1–September 30
- Q4: October 1–December 31
Filter a cost report
Configure report groups
Configure Credits, Discounts, Refunds, Taxes
Enable/disable amortization
Perform comparative cost reporting
Save a Cost Report
After you apply all desired filters to the report, you can save your changes and name the report.Save as Default
On the default All Resources Cost Report, users with the Organization Owner role can save the current settings as the workspace default. This changes the baseline view that all users in the workspace see when they open the All Resources report. The Save as Default option appears in the split save button dropdown on the default report. It is disabled until you change at least one of the following settings from the current default:- Chart type (e.g., line, bar, area)
- Date bucket (e.g., daily, monthly, cumulative)
- Date interval (e.g., last 3 months, last 30 days)
- Include Current Month/Week toggle
- Credits, discounts, refunds, and tax settings
- Amortization
- Start and end dates (for custom date ranges)
Organize Cost Reports
Cost Report Folders
You can organize your Cost Reports in folders and separate them by team or group. See the Folders documentation for more information.Dashboards
Cost Reports can be displayed as a group on a dashboard. The dashboard has options to display all reports by the same date range. See the Dashboards documentation for more information.Anomalies, Forecasts, and Annotations
Cost Reports have several other features, including anomaly detection, forecasts, and annotations. See the linked documentation for more information about these features.Forecasts Tab
The Forecasts tab on Cost Reports provides a dedicated interface for analyzing and comparing different forecast types—dynamic or baseline. This tab displays tabular views of each forecast type, historical differential analysis, and allows you to select which forecast to display on the chart. See the Forecasting documentation for more details.Filter Cost Reports
On the Filters menu, click Select a provider and choose from any of your connected providers (AWS, Azure, etc.). Costs are filtered to all costs for the selected provider. Within the table, costs are grouped by provider service (e.g., Amazon Relational Database Service), in descending order of Accrued Costs.

- To add another value for that filter, click the + icon next to the first value.
- To remove a selected filter value, click the trashcan icon next to the value.
- To add more filter criteria, click New Rule. The graph is updated to display costs that match the first filter criteria and the second filter criteria.
- To add a separate filter set, click + Add a Filter. You can also use this option to add costs from another provider. The graph is updated to display costs that match the first filter set or the second filter set.
- To remove a filter set, click the trashcan icon at the top of a filter set.
ExtendedSupport, not extendedsupport or Extended Support).Flexible Match
The flexible match operator in Vantage helps you work with inconsistent tag naming conventions. When filtering a Cost Report, you can select the flexible match operator to ignore differences in case, whitespace, underscores, and hyphens. This allows a single filter to match many tag value variations without creating multiple filters or manually normalizing tags. For example, your organization tags workloads by team, but the tag values vary: one service might useteamA, another team-a, and a third Team A. Instead of creating separate filters for each variant, use the flexible match operator as shown in the image below.

Team A string.
To exclude values, use the does not flexible match operator.
Percent-Based Cost Allocation
With percent-based cost allocation, you can filter Cost Reports to show back shared resources, like support costs or multi-tenant databases, to the team or department that uses them. As filters are set in a Cost Report, Vantage will query for costs that meet all those conditions. To set percent-based cost allocation:Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)-Managed Tags
If you want to view Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster tags, you need to enable ECS-Managed Tags. See the AWS documentation for more information.AWS Organization Tags
You can filter and group by AWS Organization Tags in Cost Reports. Create a filter for Tag. For the Tag Key, these tags are displayed likeaws:organizations:tag.
Network Costs
For resources that generate network traffic costs (e.g., NAT Gateways), a Network Costs button is displayed in the Cost Report list. See the Network Flow Reports documentation for details on network costs. In the below example, this Cost Report is grouped by Service and Resource. The Network Costs button is displayed next to NAT Gateway resources.
Edit Filters as VQL
You can view and edit your Cost Report filters as VQL (Vantage Query Language) directly in the console. This is useful for making precise adjustments to complex filters, copying filter logic between reports, or reusing VQL across the API, Terraform, and Virtual Tags. From the Filters menu, click View as VQL to see the current filter as a VQL query. Click Edit VQL to modify the query directly, then click Apply to update the filter. See the VQL documentation for details.Saved Filters
You can create and use Saved Filters to apply commonly used filters across multiple reports. Review the Saved Filters documentation for more information.Configure Report Groups
With the Group By option, you can select one or more dimensions to group by. If you select a grouping option, both the Cost Report table and graph will include costs aggregated by the selected groupings. Once the report is saved, the report’s corresponding Overview widget will be updated as well. You can group by the following dimensions:- Account (e.g., member account on AWS, project on GCP)
- Billing Account
- Region
- Service (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure VMs)
- Resource
- Provider (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Category
- Subcategory
- Charge Type (see the section below for definitions)
- Tagged (e.g., see whether resources are or are not tagged)
- Tag (includes virtual tags)
production - Acme - nat-123456.
When you group by Resource, some cost line items may appear as No Resource. This means the cloud provider’s billing data does not include a resource identifier for those costs. Common examples include tax line items, support charges, account-level fees (such as Enterprise Support or Shield Advanced subscriptions), certain data transfer costs, and some marketplace subscription fees. The same behavior applies to other grouping dimensions—for example, costs without a region will appear as No Region, and costs without a tag will appear as Not tagged with {tag name}.

Charge Type Grouping Category
The Charge Type grouping includes costs separated by items like usage, discounts, EDP discounts, and taxes. Expand the section below to view the associated providers and definitions for each charge type.Click to view Charge Types
Click to view Charge Types
| Charge Type | Provider | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| adjustment | GCP | GCP adjustments due to reasons like goodwill or SLA violations |
| AllocatedAmortizedDiscount | AWS | Savings from commitment-based pricing (Savings Plans/RIs) allocated to the account consuming the commitment. Appears as a negative amount, reducing the effective cost from on-demand pricing to the commitment rate. |
| AllocatedAmortizedFee | AWS | Savings Plans and Reserved Instances that have been amortized and allocated to an account with usage. This value can appear as a negative cost in the payer account because it is subtracted from the payer account and added to a member account. |
| AmortizedCredit | Via Custom Providers | Credit charges that span multiple billing days, amortized across the covered period. Visible when amortization is enabled. |
| AmortizedDiscount | AWS | The discount portion of a commitment fee (Reserved Instance or Savings Plan upfront fee) that has been spread across the billing period. Represents the difference between the gross and net amortized upfront commitment cost. Visible when amortization and discounts are both enabled. |
| AmortizedFee | AWS | Amortized Savings Plan and Reserved Instance purchases |
| AmortizedPurchase | Azure | Azure reservation and Savings Plan purchases from the amortized cost dataset. Visible when amortization is enabled. |
| AmortizedRefund | Via Custom Providers | Refund charges that span multiple billing days, amortized across the covered period. Visible when amortization is enabled. |
| AmortizedTax | AWS | Tax charges (such as AWS Marketplace or Enterprise Support tax) that span multiple billing days, amortized across the covered period |
| AmortizedUsage | AWS, Azure | Usage charges in the amortized cost view. For AWS, commitment-covered usage (Savings Plans/RIs) rewritten to gross cost when blended commitment discounts are enabled. For Azure, usage charges from the amortized cost dataset, where reservation and Savings Plan purchases are spread across the usage period. |
| Bundled Discount | AWS | Discounted usage for one product/service based on the usage of another product/service |
| Credit | AWS | Any AWS credits that were applied to your bill |
| COMMITTED_USAGE_DISCOUNT | GCP | Compute Engine resource-based committed use discounts |
| COMMITTED_USAGE_DISCOUNT_DOLLAR_BASE | GCP | Spend-based committed use discounts |
| DISCOUNT | Any provider | Discounts applied by a provider for your usage |
| DistributorDiscount | AWS | Discounts through the AWS Distribution Resellers Program |
| Enterprise Discount Program Discount | AWS | Discounts applied through the AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) |
| Fee | AWS | Upfront annual fees paid for subscriptions, such as the fee paid for All Upfront subscriptions. Also used for AWS Marketplace and Support fees. |
| FeeTax | AWS | Tax related to “Fee” type charges, such as AWS Marketplace tax |
| FEE_UTILIZATION_OFFSET | GCP | Credit that offsets Committed Use Discount (CUD) fee SKUs when commitments are fully utilized, resulting in zero net cost for the fee SKU |
| FREE_TIER | GCP | Credits applied related to GCP Free Tier usage |
| Monthly Minimum Fee | Fastly | Minimum fee for Fastly |
| PartnerEarnedCredit | Azure | Credits earned by Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners for managing customer Azure resources. Visible when credits are included. |
| Private Rate Discount | AWS | AWS discount based on private pricing rates |
| PROMOTION | GCP | GCP promotional credits related to items like marketing promotions |
| Purchase | Azure | Azure Marketplace purchases |
| Refund | AWS | Negative charges, indicating money refunded by AWS |
| regular | GCP | GCP regular charges |
| RESELLER_MARGIN | GCP | Discounts for GCP Reseller Program |
| Reserved Instance Discounted Spend | AWS | The rate for instances benefiting from Reserved Instance (RI) benefits |
| Reserved Instance Fee | AWS | Monthly recurring fees for Reserved Instance subscriptions |
| RiVolumeDiscount | AWS | Volume discounts for large Reserved Instance purchases |
| RoundingAdjustment | Azure | Small adjustments for rounding differences in Azure billing calculations |
| rounding_error | GCP | GCP cost type for rounding errors |
| Savings Plan Discounted Spend | AWS | On-demand costs covered by your Savings Plan, offsetting corresponding Savings Plan negation items |
| Savings Plan Negation | AWS | Offset costs through your Savings Plan benefit associated with covered usage items |
| Savings Plan Recurring Fee | AWS | Hourly recurring charges associated with a No Upfront or Partial Upfront Savings Plan |
| Savings Plan Upfront Fee | AWS | One-time upfront fee from purchasing All Upfront or Partial Upfront Savings Plans |
| Solution Provider Program Discount | AWS | Discounts through the AWS Solution Provider Program |
| SppDiscount | AWS | Solution Provider Program discount (internal charge type name used in billing rules) |
| SUBSCRIPTION_BENEFIT | GCP | Credits earned after purchase of long-term subscriptions |
| SUSTAINED_USAGE_DISCOUNT | GCP | Credit for running certain Compute Engine resources for a large portion of the month |
| Tax/tax | AWS, GCP | Taxes applied, such as sales tax |
| UnamortizedCredit | Via Custom Providers | The original lump-sum credit charge before amortization. Visible when amortization is disabled. |
| UnamortizedDiscount | AWS | The discount portion of an unamortized commitment fee (Reserved Instance or Savings Plan). Visible when amortization is disabled and discounts are included. |
| UnamortizedFee | AWS, via Custom Providers | The original lump-sum fee charge before amortization. For AWS, Savings Plan recurring fees shown as unamortized when blended commitment discounts are enabled. Visible when amortization is disabled. |
| UnamortizedPurchase | Azure | Azure reservation and Savings Plan purchases from the actual (unamortized) cost dataset. Visible when amortization is disabled. |
| UnamortizedRefund | Via Custom Providers | The original lump-sum refund charge before amortization. Visible when amortization is disabled. |
| UnamortizedSppDiscount | AWS | Unamortized Solution Provider Program discount |
| UnamortizedTax | Via Custom Providers | The original lump-sum tax charge before amortization. Visible when amortization is disabled and taxes are included. |
| UnamortizedUsage | Azure | Usage charges from the actual (unamortized) cost dataset, where reservation and Savings Plan purchases are shown as lump sums rather than spread over time. Visible when amortization is disabled. |
| UnusedReservation | Azure | Cost of unused Azure reservation capacity. Represents reservation hours that were paid for but not utilized. Visible when amortization is enabled. |
| UnusedSavingsPlan | Azure | Cost of unused Azure Savings Plan capacity. Represents Savings Plan commitment that was paid for but not utilized. Visible when amortization is enabled. |
| Usage | Any provider (for GCP, see “regular”) | Charges for usage at regular or on-demand rates |
EdpDiscount becomes AmortizedEdpDiscount or UnamortizedEdpDiscount.- Amortized variants (e.g.,
AmortizedEdpDiscount) appear when amortization and discounts are both enabled. These represent the discount amount on fee rows (such as Marketplace or Enterprise Support charges) that have been spread across the billing period. - Unamortized variants (e.g.,
UnamortizedEdpDiscount) appear when amortization is disabled and discounts are included. These represent the discount amount on unamortized fee or commitment rows, such as Reserved Instance fees or Savings Plan recurring fees.
EdpDiscount, BundledDiscount, SppDiscount, RiVolumeDiscount, PrivateRateDiscount, and DistributorDiscount.Other Grouping Category
By default, the top five groups of costs by amount are displayed on the graph. In addition, the Other Costs category is displayed as an aggregation of all remaining costs. To add more costs to the graph and table, click the down arrow next to Other Costs. The number of other costs is displayed. Click Show X More Items to add additional cost groups to the report.
Drill Down in Costs Table
Within the table below the graph, you can drill down into your report to create precise filtering and grouping views. When you click a drilldown icon on a row, Vantage automatically adds filters matching the values in that row and adds a grouping dimension to the report, allowing you to explore your costs in more detail. Drilldown functionality is available in both the Cumulative and By Date views of the cost table. The drilldown options available depend on whether the report is currently ungrouped or has grouping criteria applied.Starting from an Ungrouped Report
When a Cost Report is ungrouped (i.e., the Group By dropdown is set to Ungrouped), two drilldown icons are displayed next to each service in the table:- Costs by Category icon (shapes icon): Click to view costs broken down by category for that service. This adds a filter for the selected service and groups the report by Category.
- Costs by Resource icon (chip icon): Click to view costs broken down by individual resources for that service. This adds a filter for the selected service and groups the report by Resource ID. This option is only available for providers that support resource-level cost data, such as AWS.
Starting from a Grouped Report
When you manually apply grouping criteria to a Cost Report (e.g., set the Group By field to Service), the following drilldown options are available:- Quick drilldown icon: A single icon is displayed that represents the next grouping dimension in Vantage’s standard drilldown sequence. For example, if you group by Account, the quick drilldown icon will drill down by Billing Account. Hover over the icon to see what grouping it will apply.
- Drilldown menu: A dropdown menu (filter list icon) appears next to the quick drilldown icon, allowing you to choose any available grouping dimension to drill into, rather than using the automatically determined next grouping.
- Adds filters matching the values in that row (e.g., the specific service, category, or other grouping values)
- Adds the selected grouping dimension to the report
- Displays the new grouping as a column in the table
- The report is filtered to AWS costs and grouped by Service.
- On the line item for Elastic Compute Cloud - Compute, click the quick drilldown icon (which drills down by Category).
- A filter for line items matching only the Elastic Compute Cloud - Compute service is added in the Filters menu.
- The report is now also grouped by Category.
- The Category column appears in the table.
- You can continue to click the quick drilldown icon on subsequent rows to drill deeper into your costs. Each click adds filters for the selected row and applies the next grouping in Vantage’s standard sequence. For example, if you click the quick drilldown icon on the EC2 > Data Transfer line item:
- The Data Transfer category filter is applied in the Filters menu.
- The report is automatically grouped by Subcategory (the next grouping in the sequence after Category).
- Subcategory is also displayed as a column in the table.
- You can also use the Drilldown menu (the filter list icon) to choose which grouping dimension to drill into next, rather than using the automatically determined next grouping. In the below example, you select the Region option for the EC2 > Data Transfer > EU-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes line item. In the resulting report, EC2 > Data Transfer > EU-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes is broken down with individual line items per region.
- The additional filter for the EU-DataTransfer-Out-Bytes subcategory is added to the Filters menu.
- The report is now also grouped by Region (the selected grouping).
- Region is now a column in the table.
Navigating Drilldown History
After drilling down into your costs, you can use the back button in your browser to navigate back to the previous drilldown level. This allows you to easily move between different levels of detail without losing your place in the report.Tagging Drilldown
When a tag is a nested tag, you can drill down into its values to view all subtags. In the example below, the report is grouped by the nested tag Business Units. This tag contains two values—Core Production and Core Development—each made up of other tags.

Billing Code Descriptions
AWS practitioners who are having trouble understanding AWS billing codes present in Cost Reports can find descriptions of each billing code, other variations of that billing code, and other services that use the same billing code within Cost Reports. When you view any AWS Cost Report grouped by Provider, Service, Category, and Subcategory, you can hover over any subcategory line item and a tooltip with a link to cur.vantage.sh is provided that takes you to a page with details for that billing line item.
Adjust Chart Visualization
You can adjust the chart to show as one of the below options. To toggle these options, click one of the corresponding buttons on the top right of the chart.
- Bar Charts
- Line Chart
- Area Chart
- Pie Chart
- Stacked Bar: Segmented bars stacked on top of each other. Each bar shows cumulative total with different colors for each grouping (e.g., when grouped by provider, one bar for AWS, one for Azure, etc.). Available with Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly date bins.
- Multi-Bar: Separate bars for each segment side-by-side for easy comparison across categories at each time point. Available with Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly date bins.
Configure the X Axis
By default, Cost Reports display the date on the X axis with costs segmented by provider, service, or other dimensions. You can also configure the X axis to show different dimensions, giving you more control over how costs are grouped and visualized. The configurable X axis is compatible with bar charts—both multi-bar and stacked bar charts. If you want to change the chart type, you’ll be asked to confirm the change. If you proceed, the grouping will reset to by date.Click to view available options
Click to view available options
- Date (default)
- Billing Account
- Linked Account
- Region
- Service
- Resource ID
- Provider
- Cost Category
- Cost Subcategory
- Charge Type
- Tagged Status
- Tag Key (any available tag)
Configure Report Settings
Credits, Discounts, Refunds, and Taxes
By default, all Cost Reports include discounts and taxes. You can optionally enable credits and refunds, too.- Credits: Credits are often promotional codes redeemed for services or trials on your account.
- Discounts: Discounts can include programs like the AWS Enterprise Discount program. Discounts are often negotiated with the cloud provider and based on usage. You might see discounts reflected as negative values in the Cost Report table. You can follow the below best practices for analyzing Cost Reports with discounts:
- If you remove the Discount setting, you can view usage and costs before the discount was applied.
- Group or filter the Cost Report by Charge Type. This grouping displays costs separated by items like usage, discounts, EDP discounts, and taxes.
- Refunds: Any associated refunds.
- Taxes: Any associated taxes.
Amortization
By default, all Cost Reports show upfront fees, such as fees for Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Marketplace purchases, and Support, amortized day by day for the period of the fee. In addition, Vantage uses committed use attribution for linked accounts. By default, you will see fees for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans assigned to the AWS account that benefited from the discount—not the account that purchased the commitment. For more information about this logic, see the following Vantage blog post.Disabling Amortization
You can toggle a Cost Report to not amortize upfront fees if you want to view the upfront fees on the day they were incurred.AWS Blended Commitment Discounts
AWS Blended Commitment Discounts provide a way to evenly spread commitment-based discounts (from Savings Plans and Reserved Instances) to all eligible usage. Vantage calculates an effective savings rate per AWS service and applies it proportionally—so all teams and workloads receive consistent discounts, regardless of where AWS originally applied them.How Blended Commitment Discounts work
How Blended Commitment Discounts work
- Eligible commitment-covered usage is represented as
AmortizedUsageat its gross cost (the on-demand price). - A separate
AllocatedAmortizedDiscountrow is added as a negative amount, representing the blended savings. - For eligible categories, separate discount line items (such as EDP or Private Rate Card discounts) are consolidated into the blended discount rather than shown individually.
AmortizedUsage and AllocatedAmortizedDiscount equals the net effective cost for that usage.What does not change- Commitment fees: Reserved Instance fees and Savings Plan recurring fees pass through as unamortized fees with any associated discounts shown as unamortized discounts.
- Non-commitment fees: Fees that span multiple days—such as Enterprise Support or Marketplace charges—continue to be amortized across the billing period as they are today.
- Unamortized costs: Unamortized costs, such as upfront fees or monthly commitment fees, are not affected.
- Non-eligible usage: For usage that is not eligible for commitment-based discounts, discount rows are still emitted individually.
- Kubernetes efficiency: For Kubernetes-related services, Vantage also computes and attaches a discounted rate based on the blended savings rate so that Kubernetes efficiency calculations remain consistent.
Vantage vs. Cost Explorer
If you notice your costs in Vantage differ from what you see in Cost Explorer, this could be for many reasons, including:- Amortization logic: As noted above, Vantage uses a different amortization logic from Cost Explorer.
- EC2-Other: In Cost Explorer, this cost category comprises many subcategories (e.g., Data Transfer). In Vantage, EC2-Other is reallocated into direct line items. For example, if you filter for NAT gateway expenditures, the charges initially categorized under transit or egress in EC2-Other are assigned to the individual resource that created the charge.
Usage-Based Reporting
Usage-Based Reporting provides infrastructure consumption in non-monetary metrics, such as virtual machine running hours, stored gigabytes of data, and read/write units consumed. These reports are available within Cost Reports, where you can toggle between viewing consumption by spend or by usage. See the Usage-Based Reporting documentation for details on how to use and view these reports.Comparative Cost Reporting
Side-by-Side Comparison Charts
Create comparative Cost Reports by configuring the X axis to show different groupings (like region, service, or team) and using multi-bar charts. This displays current and previous period costs side-by-side for each grouping, making it easy to compare spending across different categories.
Update the Costs Table
To compare costs day by day, week by week, month by month, or quarter by quarter on Cost Reports, click the By Date option above the cost table. A view of costs with the same date binning selected for the graph is displayed. To switch back to the previous, current, and percent change view, select Cumulative.
Export Cost Reports
You can export Cost Reports as CSV or PDF files to share with other Vantage users. You can also create an export that includes both file formats. Reports with Configurable X Axis settings can be exported just like any other report.- PDF Exports
- CSV Exports
- Cost Report title
- Date range
- Link at the top to the associated Cost Report in Vantage
- Accrued costs represented in the Cost Report
- Color-coded legend for the Cost Report groupings
- Graphical representations of your Cost Report (supports all Vantage chart types)
Click to view example image
Click to view example image

- Provider (e.g., AWS, GCP, New Relic)
- Service (e.g., EC2, EBS)
- Region (e.g., us-east-1)
- Service category (e.g., Storage, Compute)
- Service subcategory (e.g., m5.large, StandardTier)
- Charge Type (e.g., Usage)
- Account (e.g., AWS member account, GCP project)
- Billing Account (e.g., billing account name)
- Resource ID (e.g., S3 bucket ARN, MongoDB Atlas cluster name)
- Usage Unit (e.g.,
GB-Mo,Hrs)—adds a column for the unit of measure. This grouping is automatically selected when the report is in usage view. - Tag key, which will be included as an additional column in the export, in the following format:
Tag:<TAG KEY>(e.g.,Tag:Project).
- Vantage: The default export schema.
- FOCUS: The FinOps Foundation FOCUS schema.
- Comparison: Exports the current period, previous period, change ($), and change (%) for each grouping. This option is only available when previous period comparison is enabled on the report.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my Cost Report show $0 for last month?
Why does my Cost Report show $0 for last month?
$0 value for a previous month usually means cost data has not finished importing for that period. This can happen when a new integration is still backfilling historical data, or when an existing integration has entered an error state. Check your integration status to confirm all connected providers show a Stable status. If a provider shows Importing, it is still completing its initial data import. If a provider shows Error or Warning, review the integration settings to resolve the issue. See the provider data refresh documentation for expected refresh timing per provider.Why are my current month costs much higher or lower than expected?
Why are my current month costs much higher or lower than expected?
Why do costs differ between Vantage and my provider's billing console?
Why do costs differ between Vantage and my provider's billing console?
- Amortization: When enabled, upfront payments (such as Reserved Instances) are spread across the commitment period. Your provider’s console may show actual costs instead.
- Credits, Discounts, Refunds, and Tax: Vantage includes or excludes these based on your report settings. Toggle these options to match what your provider’s billing console displays.
- Data freshness: Provider cost data refreshes on a schedule that varies by provider. See the provider data refresh documentation for expected timing.
How do I search costs by category, subcategory, or resource across all services?
How do I search costs by category, subcategory, or resource across all services?
DataTransfer-Out-Bytes, while Datadog subcategories distinguish Commitment from On Demand.How do saved Cost Report settings affect API responses?
How do saved Cost Report settings affect API responses?
cost_report_token, the API starts from that Cost Report’s saved settings and applies any request-level overrides. By default, cost results aggregate by cost. If the saved Cost Report is configured to aggregate by usage and you want cost aggregation for a specific API request, pass settings[aggregate_by]=cost.How can I investigate a sudden cost spike for a specific service?
How can I investigate a sudden cost spike for a specific service?
- On your Cost Report, add a Group By for Resource to identify which specific resources drove the spike.
- Adjust the date bin to Daily to pinpoint the exact date the increase started.
- For AWS networking costs, use Network Flow Reports to investigate traffic patterns that may explain increases in services like NAT Gateway or data transfer.


