Dashboards

Overview

Dashboards are crucial for monitoring and managing cloud costs. They offer a comprehensive view of your cloud spending from different angles.

Cloudchipr offers customizable widgets that make it easy to track cloud spending and identify areas for optimization. You can create dashboards tailored to each team or persona and allow them to monitor the metrics that matter to them, such as current spending, forecasted waste, and usage trends over the next three months.

Create and manage dashboards

To create dashboards, you can follow these steps:

1. In the navigation panel, select Dashboards.
2. In the Dashboards section, click on the Add Dashboard.
3. To add a widget, click on the Add widget.
4. In the Add widget drawer, select a widget type to add to your dashboard.
5. After selecting a widget type, the appropriate configuration drawer is opened.
6. You can customize the widget according to your preferred metrics andAdd it to the dashboard.
7. After you add a widget to the dashboard, you can duplicate, edit, or delete that widget.

Dashboards support a variety of widget types so that you can choose the most suitable source to display your data.

Widgets

Currently, Cloudchipr supports the following widget types.

1. Cost and Usage Summary

The "Cost and Usage Summary" widget offers a total overview of your cloud spending and usage trends, the amount of underutilized resources, cost forecasting, and more. It is ideal for executives to track the most important numbers and metrics. Customizing the date range, resource filters, and metrics is possible. It's also possible to have multiple Summary widgets based on different filters.

2. Cost breakdown

The "Cost breakdown" widget presents a detailed breakdown of your cloud spending across various dimensions, including Cloud Accounts, Services, Regions, Product Families, and Cloud Providers. The breakdown draws insights from the data of an existing view of the Resource Explorer and at the same time, it provides flexibility to adjust grouping, date range, granularity, and data visualization according to your preferences.

3. Cost Comparison

The "Cost Comparison" widget allows you to select and compare the total cost or live usage across multiple Resource Explorer views, providing insights into how your cost and usage patterns vary across different views.

You can customize the timeframe for comparison by selecting from predefined intervals, specifying custom date ranges, and adjusting granularity from daily, weekly, or monthly options.

4. Largest cost changes

The "Largest cost changes" widget is designed to highlight significant changes in cloud costs across various dimensions, including services, accounts, or product families. This widget allows you to identify the top 5 increases and decreases in costs based on a selected Resource Explorer view. This enables you to focus on the most significant changes, saving time and effort in identifying areas for optimization.

You can adjust the timeframe for analysis by selecting from predefined intervals or specifying custom date ranges, allowing you to focus on cost changes within specific periods.

Additionally, you have the option to display cost changes based on either the absolute cost amount or the percentage change, providing additional context and insight into the magnitude of the cost changes.

5. Cost by category

The "Cost by Category" widget is designed to provide insights into your cloud spending and waste across different Account Groups. Account Groups are a group of Cloud Accounts that you can name and use in various places in Cloudchipr. You can create account groups like Dev, Prod, and Staging to monitor cloud expenses and see Live Filtered resources in a single widget.

6. Live usage

The "Live usage" widget is designed to provide real-time insights into cloud usage and expenditure across selected cloud providers or accounts.

You can select specific cloud providers or accounts to monitor, track total costs, and identify underutilized resources. Visualized with an interactive bar or gauge charts and displaying filtered resources and percentage ratios, you can easily understand resource utilization, empowering you to optimize cloud spending effectively.

If billing exports are disabled, you won't be able to create widgets such as Cost and Usage Summary, Cost Breakdown, Cost Comparison, and Largest Cost Changes. Once billing exports are enabled, you'll gain access to these widgets.

Modify dashboard

You can modify a dashboard by adding or removing widgets and changing the layout of the dashboard widgets:

• To modify a widget, place your pointer on the widget to activate the Edit widget button, and then adjust the widget's configurations from the Configure widget drawer. To apply your changes to the dashboard, in the toolbar, click Save. To discard your changes, click Cancel.
• To reposition a widget, use your pointer to drag the widget by its header to a new location.
• To resize a widget, use your pointer to adjust the widget's size horizontally and vertically.