What Is Cost Reporting?
Cost Reports are one of the fundamental tools in Vantage. They provide complex reporting to slice and dice the data for many use cases. You can create numerous reports in Vantage and use filters, grouping parameters, and timeframe options to see the exact data you want to see. Cost Reports include a chart view and a cost table. You can manipulate the view to highlight certain data points and zoom in on particular dates or areas where you see anomalies.Why Should I Use Cost Reporting?
Cost Reports can help any user or stakeholder to view the exact costs they want to see across any cloud provider (e.g., AWS), a set of accounts, or even check on their current tagging schema. If you want to see a longitudinal view of your cost data and have the ability to filter by multiple parameters, then you can start with Cost Reports to get an overall picture of the state of your costs.Cost Reporting Use Cases
Cost Reports are helpful for any FinOps stakeholder—from engineering managers to organizational management.- Engineering Manager
- FinOps Stakeholder
- Application Owner
As an engineering manager, you may want to see why data transfer costs are increasing for storage resources. You can create a Cost Report with filters for AWS data transfer costs and view down to the resource level where you’re seeing the highest cost spikes. You use the Annotations and Vantage Issues feature to collaborate with other teams and understand changes in data transfer costs over time. You also create a dashboard to monitor team projects and present current costs over time to management.