Working with the Public Cloud View

Summary page

The Summary page provides a summary view of cost data.

Use the Period fields to change the range of data displayed on the page. Use the Filters field to change the type of data displayed on the page.

By default, the Summary page includes the following charts and report.  For more information, see Working with charts and reports.

• A Top 5 Service Categories donut chart showing the top 5 services with the highest cost.
• A Total Cost chart showing the cost of your cloud over time.
• An Insights summary providing a summary of the ways the HPE Consumption Analytics platform has identified for you to improve the cost and efficiency of your cloud. For example, you can be alerted when the cost for a department increases suddenly, or when you are paying for a VM no one is using.
• A Provider Trend combo chart, which shows the daily total cost of services from each provider in your cloud, over time. The bar for each day shows the relative cost for each of those services.
• A Service Drilldown report that shows details about usage and cost for different services in your organization.

Reports page

The Reports page enables you to display and filter all of the reports you have permission to see.

• Use the Report field to choose a report to display.
• The Period fields identify the range of data displayed in the report. You can select a predefined range, or use the date fields to enter a custom range. If the report creator specified a date range when creating the report, that range appears in the Period fields when you first open the report.
• Use the Filters field to change the type of data displayed in the report.

If you have the Manage Personal Reports permission, you can click the + icon to create a new report. For more information and step-by-step instructions for creating reports, see Creating Reports.

If you no longer need a report in your view, you can click the ellipsis icon and then select Delete.

Budgets page

The Budgets page enables you to define one or more budgets, and tracks your cloud spending against those budgets. Your view shows budgets you created, which are visible only to you, and budgets that others have shared with you.

An arrow on the budget line indicates today's date in relation to the time span of the budget. Each budget line is either green, orange, or red, depending on whether you are within your budget, projected to be over your budget, or already over your budget.

The Budgets page in your view begins with budgets for your most expensive service categories. You can edit these budgets, and create new budgets that suit your needs. Your budgets are available only in your view.

You cannot edit a budget that has been shared with you, but you can view all of its details. Click the view budgets details (eye) icon to see the charts and tables that show target and actual values over time.

Note that if you are an admin and have the Manage Shared Budgets capability (see Permissions) you can create budgets that can be shared with others.

To create a budget

1. On the Budget page, click Add New.
   The Budget Editor dialog box appears.
2. In the Budget Configuration section, choose the interval and date range. For example, you can create a quarterly budget for the current fiscal year, or create a monthly budget for a project that ends four months from now.
3. In the Interval field, set the monthly, quarterly, or yearly interval you want to track
   In the Budget Starts and Budget Ends fields set the first and last periods covered by the budget, which might be months, quarters, or years as set in the Interval.
4. In the Budget Configuration section, choose whether this budget will have a single overall target or targets for each value of a particular field in your data. For example, if you are creating a budget for your own department, a single target is all you need, and the Budget Targets table displays a single row.
   However, if you are creating a budget to cover each department in your division, choose to target Per Field Value by your department field. This gives you a row in the Budget Targets table for each value in that field so that you can set a target for each department. As the engine continues to collect usage data, if usage comes in for a new department that new name is added to this table. If you chose Per Field Value in Targets, you can choose a particular field in your data to track.
5. In the Filters section, you can filter the data that is considered by the budget to create a budget focused on a specific piece of your cost. Filters are important for a single-target budget so you can filter the data to that department.
   1. Click Add New Filter.
   2. In the Filter Manager, click Filter Field to open up a list of fields to choose from. Choose a field on which to filter.
   3. Click Operator to choose how you want to filter the data field.
   4. Click Selected Values to choose which values in your data you want to filter upon.
   5. Click Save.
6. In the Budget Targets table, double click the data cells in the Targets column to enter your target cost values. They can vary from one period to the next.
   The Budget Targets table shows your budget data. For current and past periods, the HPE Consumption Analytics platform shows your actual cost and the difference between the two. In the Difference column, a red value in parentheses indicates a period where you are over budget.
   The Actuals vs. Targets charts show you the same information visually that is in the table. For a budget with targets per field value you get a breakdown of the current period by target, and you can choose which of those targets to view in the historical chart, including the total of them as an overall budget.
7. Click the save icon. In the Save Budget dialog:
   1. Name your budget and type a description.
   2. In the Send email notification at threshold(s) field, select thresholds that generate an email to you when reached. For example, if you select a threshold of 90%, and your monthly budget is $30,000, HPE Consumption Analytics portal notifies you by email when the cost for any month reaches $27,000.
   3. In the Send email notifications if budget is projected to exceed target field, you also can specify notifications when your cost is projected to exceed a budget target. As long as your cost remains projected to exceed the target during the period, The HPE Consumption Analytics platform continues to send notifications either daily or weekly to help you adjust your consumption to meet the target.
   4. Click Save.

When your budget is complete, you can export it to CSV to work with the target, actual, and difference amounts in another application.

Forecasting page

The Forecasting page enables you to project the future of your cloud based on historical data. You can use these forecasts to plan how you want to manage your cloud, and to plan future budgets. The graph displays historical data in solid bars, current data in striped bars, and forecasted data in empty bars. Mouse over any bar to see details for the data it represents. A table under the graph shows detailed information for each item being forecast.

To forecast usage

1. In the Base Forecast On field, select the amount of historical data you want used to make the forecast.
2. In the Forecast Period field, select the number months into the future you want the forecast to extend.
3. In the Value field, select the numeric field you want used for the forecast.
4. In the Group By field, select the field you want forecasted.
5. If you want to hide historical data in the display, uncheck the Show Actuals option.
6. If you want to see detailed information about the forecast, click Expand Details icon.
7. If you want to export the details of your forecast, click the Export icon.

Cost Efficiency page

As public cloud providers offer new services and new pricing, it's good practice to evaluate your public cloud workload performance and cost on a regular basis.  The HPE Consumption Analytics platform helps you review the trend of daily total usage and daily average cost over time, so you can see how well you're doing with respect to cost optimization.  For example, if your total usage of virtual machines and the average cost have stayed relatively the same over the last few months, there might be cost savings opportunities available to you, in terms of commitment-based pricing options such as reserved instances, or right-sizing, or termination. 

The Cost Efficiency page in the Public Cloud View provides daily usage hours and daily average cost per hour for the compute and relational database services consumed on AWS and Azure. You can use the Period fields to change the range of data displayed on the page. 

• If you enable HPE Consumption Analytics platform to collect AWS billing data, the cost efficiency graphs for AWS EC2 and AWS RDS will display. 
• If you enable HPE Consumption Analytics platform to collect Azure billing data, the cost efficiency graphs for Azure VM and Azure SQL Database will display. 

You can download the tabular data by clicking the Download to CSV icon..