Overview

Live Usage and Management is an excellent workplace for DevOps and FinOps engineers who want a single page that displays all their cloud resources from all their accounts and regions. In this section, they can filter resources based on usage metrics, take actions, or notify via Slack channels or email groups to improve cloud hygiene accountability within their organizations.

It is not based on Cloud Billing Data, which is often one-day-old data provided by cloud providers. Instead, it gathers resource usage metrics from all accounts and regions Live every 15 minutes and displays them on a single page. This allows to easily filter out underutilized resources, take necessary actions, set up notifications, and create automation workflows.

The filters can be easily managed using Filter Templates that can be applied to all or a set of accounts. These filters can be set based on a wide range of criteria, starting from Resource Names and TAGs to CPU Utilization, Database Connections, EBS Volumes, and Load Balancer attachments. Cloudchipr comes with preconfigured default filters. For instance, the default filters for EC2 instances are set to CPU(MAX) <= 20% for the last 7 Days AND Creation Time >= 7 Days. So Cloudchipr will highlight all EC2 instances that are older than 7 days and never had a CPU spike for more than 20% for the last 7 days. For EBS volumes the default filters are Attachments = Empty, which means it will highlight all your volumes that are not attached to any resource.