Cloud8 customers often have reports in different formats that need to be fed with the data available in our reports. The simplest way to do this is through an integration with a Storage Account (integration also available for AWS and GCP ). See below how to do this extraction in 2 quick steps.
Extracting Data to Storage Accounts #
Creating an integration with Azure Storage Account #
The first step is to create an integration within our MultiCloud Panel with the Storage Account. To do this, follow these steps:
- Find the “ Integrations ” option in the side menu
- Select “ New Integration ” in the first option
- Click on “ Type ” and select the “ Azure Storage Account “ option
- Give this integration a name
- Fill in the required data: Storage Account Name , Storage Account Key and Container
Saving a report for extraction (exportable) #
The next step is to record a report that can be exported to the Storage Account automatically. Follow these steps:
- Click on “ FinOps – Reports “, then on “ Pivot Table ”
- Select the “ Provider “, “ Tags ” (can include “azure:ResourceGroup” and others), currency and markup
- Click “ Refresh ” to load the report with the selected filters
- Use the “ My Dashboards ” button and select “ Save New ”
- Within the displayed options, select the integration created with the Storage Account in the previous step.
- Don’t forget to save
After these two simple steps, the client will receive a complete and consistent file in CSV format, with the markup defined by him, 2 to 3 times a day containing all the data.
This way, no API integration, credential generation, scripts, error handling, etc. are required.
