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# Reports

Break cost and usage down by account, service, SKU, tag, region, egress path or commitment, over any date range, as a table or a chart.

Every report answers three questions: which dimension to break cost down by, how to group it, and over which dates. The **Showing** selector sets the dimension and is the first control to set. Changing it re-scopes the rest of the control bar, rewrites the AI insight, and changes which visualizations are available.

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The Reports provide you with the following information and controls:

## Areas of the page

Three zones, top to bottom:

* **Summary Cards:** Four fixed figures above the report.
* **Control bar:** Main panel that shapes the report. This is where AI Insight, the Action toolbar, and other controls like Showing, Group by, dates, and the visualization picker are present.
* **Result area:** The table or chart itself.

### Summary cards

The top of the page displays the following four KPIs for the selected cloud provider:

* Total spend (last month)
* Total spend (this month so far)
* Services used
* Total potential savings

### Control Bar

#### AI insight

The sentence at the top of the control panel is generated from the same figures the table below it shows. It states one finding, anchors it in time, and names a next step. It is rewritten whenever the dimension, the date range or the frequency changes.

> ***Example (Insight on the Commitments tab):***
>
> Savings Plan coverage sits at 62% with 94% utilization, leaving 38% of eligible compute at On Demand rates. A small top up would lift coverage without waste.

#### Action toolbar

The small toolbar at the right of the contol panel.

<table><thead><tr><th width="80.09765625">Icon</th><th width="314">Name</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><i class="fa-filter">:filter:</i></td><td>Filters</td><td>Applies filters to narrow down the data displayed based on specific criteria</td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-folder-plus">:folder-plus:</i></td><td>Add to dashboard </td><td>Enables saving the current data configuration to a customized <a href="/product-features/views.md">view</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-download">:download:</i></td><td>Download as CSV </td><td>Download the data in CSV format for further analysis</td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-bell">:bell:</i></td><td>Notifications</td><td>Opens up a dropdown to configure cost, budget, or summary alerts</td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-bullseye">:bullseye:</i></td><td><p>Targets</p><p><code>Commitments only</code></p></td><td>Appears only on the Commitments tab. Let's you set your savings rate baseline, the time period to measure it over, and the channels that get warned before a commitment expires. </td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Control reference

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Amortization support is available exclusively for **AWS** alone right now.
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<table data-search="false"><thead><tr><th>Control</th><th>Use Case</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Showing</td><td>The main report dimension</td></tr><tr><td>From (Project selector)</td><td>Select the project for which data will be displayed</td></tr><tr><td>Formatted as (visualization format)</td><td>Specify the desired format for visualizing the data, such as table, bar chart, pie chart, or line chart</td></tr><tr><td>During (Date selector)</td><td>Select a specific date range for filtering the data</td></tr><tr><td>Frequency</td><td>Groups the data based on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis</td></tr><tr><td>With credits</td><td>When switched on, it displays the cost subtotal for which you are accountable, i.e., the actual cost minus discounts or promotions</td></tr><tr><td>Amortized</td><td>Distributes costs evenly across time, rather than showing them only when expenses occur.</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Cost dimensions

You can control the shown data by configuring the following:

<table data-search="false"><thead><tr><th>Tab</th><th>Use Case</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Projects (GCP)/ Accounts (AWS)/ Subscriptions (Azure)</td><td>Shows the cost associated with each project, account or subscription</td></tr><tr><td>Services</td><td>Shows the cost associated with services used in your cloud environment</td></tr><tr><td>SKUs</td><td>Shows the cost associated with each used SKU in your cloud environment</td></tr><tr><td>Labels (GCP)/ Tags (AWS &#x26; Azure)</td><td>Shows the cost associated with each label or tag in your cloud environment</td></tr><tr><td>Networking (GCP)/ Data Transfer (AWS)/ Bandwidth (Azure)</td><td>Shows the associated cost or usage for networking or data transfer in your cloud environment</td></tr><tr><td>Network Egress</td><td>Shows where your data transfer cost comes from</td></tr><tr><td>Regions</td><td>Shows the associated cost or usage broken down by the cloud region (e.g. us-east-1, europe-west1) where your resources are deployed</td></tr><tr><td>Machine Types (GCP)/ Instance Types (AWS &#x26; Azure)</td><td>Shows the associated cost or usage broken down by the compute resource configuration (vCPU, memory, and hardware family) provisioned across your cloud environment</td></tr><tr><td>Operations</td><td>Breaks down costs by operation, such as S3 GET and PUT requests. Useful for catching a misconfigured retry loop or a sudden spike in request volume</td></tr><tr><td>Commitments</td><td>Shows your Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, the money you save by committing to usage in advance</td></tr></tbody></table>

For GCP projects you can also analyze the cost breakdown for the following specific services:

<table data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th>Services</th><th>Use Case</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>BigQuery</td><td>Shows the BigQuery costs associated with a project which can be further analyzed based on Top queries, Top datasets, Top tables, and Top users<br><br><a data-mention href="/google-cloud/bigquery.md">Analyzing BigQuery costs by linking the logging export</a></td></tr><tr><td>Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)</td><td>Shows the GKE costs associated with a project which can be further analyzed based on Cluster costs, Namespace costs, Label costs, and Cluster details<br><br><a data-mention href="/google-cloud/gke.md">Analyzing GKE costs</a></td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Logging</td><td>Provides Cloud Logging breakdown for the cost and volume of a project</td></tr></tbody></table>