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Usage Dashboard

In this section, you can view your USAGE data for the Cloud resources used in your account. The following reports are available for this:

  • Current month - Usage Standard Report current month
  • Previous month - Usage Standard Report previous month
  • Custom query - Individual USAGE Report with extensive query options (Advanced)

All reports feature an export function.

Note

The data displayed is indicative, time-delayed by 2-3 hours depending on the time zone (e.g., CEST), and may differ from your billing data for various reasons such as processing and rounding processes. They do not claim to be complete.

Usage Standard Reports

With the standard Usage Reports Current month and Previous month, you can quickly get an overview of your used Cloud resources.

  • To do this, navigate to Usage dashboard on the left and then click on the desired standard report, for example Previous month.

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Note

If you have been using the Cloud Services since the current month, no data will understandably appear for the previous month.

  • Simply access the Current month Standard Usage Report.
  • To do this, navigate to Usage dashboard on the left and then click on Current month.

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  1. At the top of the screen, you see the date range for the query
  2. In the column header, you can sort the displayed table by clicking on any column
  3. A filter input field allows you to filter the table by specific text
  4. Clicking the Export table as CSV button saves the report locally. Pay attention to the icon at the bottom of the screen.

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Custom Query Report

The Custom query Panel allows Advanced Users to create individual USAGE Reports with extensive query possibilities, which require a certain understanding and knowledge of the data structure.

  • To access the Custom query, navigate to Usage dashboard on the left and then click on Custom query.
  • Then please click the Custom usage query button to open the query input mask.

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  • Now enter the parameters for your query and confirm with the Store it button. This will save and execute the query.

Note

You do not have to use all input fields for a query. Start with simple queries, see examples below.

Custom Query Form Fields

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Input Section Description
(A) Begin / End date Please enter the time window to which the query refers
(B) Project ID Filter Optionally, you can filter (limit) the query to one or more projects here by entering the project name1.
(C) Custom Projection With this field, you can display additional extensive fields, functions, and data in the report. See examples below.
(D) Filters Here you can enter additional filters for fields in the query in the format <field_name>:<value_we_want_to_filter>.
(E) Groupby options By selecting the Groupby fields, the report will be displayed aggregated by these fields. Similar to a SQL group by argument.

: Input Fields Custom Query Report Form

  • Clicking the Custom usage query button again will display the last query you ran, which you can then adjust if necessary.

Example List of all VM Instances

You want a Custom Query Report for the USAGE data from last month exclusively for VM instances. The list should display the following fields as columns:

  • display_name
  • flavor_name
  • project_id

Enter the following data into the Custom Query Form and view the result.

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Note

By entering the filter in the format type:instance-usage-hours, only instances will be queried.

  1. By entering the initial letter of a project, a list of available projects is displayed. As soon as you select one, the project_id of this project is inserted into the field. Repeat the process to select multiple projects. ↩