Through Cloud8, in the application it is possible to see the costs divided by Tags / Label / Resource Group .
Budgets by Provider / Products / Tags – FinOps Apps #
Click on “FinOps Reports” and then select “Budgets” in the application.
You can quickly set a budget for a product or business tag.
Flexible configurations: #
- Defining the budget for each Tag /value;
- Multiple item selection;
- Budget method : fixed costs (daily or monthly), estimated, percentage variation in relation to the previous month;
- Notifications – email / slack / SNS;
- Notification frequency: every day, only when exceeded, only once;
- Values per month to facilitate visualization and estimates;
- Report showing whether budget is in line or not (green / red);
- Preview – as you change budgets , you can see in real time what the alerts will look like;
- Comparative graphs of budgeted value vs. actual value;
- Graph with deviation values – positive or negative – OK or burst;
- Exporting graphics;
- Retroactive registration of fixed budget values for historical purposes and budget migration into Cloud8;
- Works with any Cloud provider and Business Units.
Example of use cases we serve: #
- Notify A/B/C emails whenever the budget for the Tag “ centrocustos: A1B2C3 ” exceeds 10% of the previous month in Reais;
- Notify slack #budget only when the budget exceeds the fixed estimated value of R$10,000.00;
Budgets for any item detailed within MultiCloud #
Click on “ FinOps Analytics ” and select the reports icon in the top right menu.
Select the nodes in the hierarchical file on the right and if you want to create a budget for a tag with Name/Value like “ team ”:” technology ”, click “Save budget ” in this menu.
Highlights: #
- Select multiple nodes and choose to receive a grouped or individual report/alert/ budget ;
- Set cost alerts – if you exceed a certain amount;
- Set estimated alerts – if you continue at this consumption rate, this value will be exceeded at the end of the month;
- Set up to 3 values to track;
- Define an integration to notify in addition to email (e.g. SMS, Slack, Bots, etc.);
- If you have Slack set up in Best Practices , it appears as an integration and is ready to use;
- Preview button allows you to view the alert/report without having to wait for it to be triggered.
Pivot Table / Dynamic Tables #
A very interesting and powerful feature implemented in the platform is the creation of reports using dynamic tables.
In “ FinOps – Reports ” -> “ Pivot Table ”, you can assemble a Rows x Columns view with the technical and business dimensions ( Tags ) you choose: Provider, Technical Category, Region, Period, Tags , etc.
By clicking on the fields, you define filters. Finally, you can export exactly what you see to a spreadsheet and other formats such as CSV and HTML.
