Updated on 2024-11-11 GMT+08:00

Cost Tags

You or Huawei Cloud assigns tags to your cloud resources so the resources can be sorted in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. You can use cost tags to manage resources and activate them to track your cloud costs.

Step 1: Adding Tags to Cloud Resources

Adhere to the tag naming principles specified in Principles for Naming Tags.

Add tags to cloud resources by referring to Adding Tags.

If you want to associate tags with cloud resources in batches, see Adding Tags to Resources.

Generally, tags appear on the Cost Tags page 24 hours after their associated resources have generated expenditures.

Step 2: Activating Tags

Activate tags by referring to Activating Cost Tags. Only the activated tags can be viewed on the Cost Analysis and Budgets pages.

If you activate any cost tags, they can only be used for cost data incurred afterwards. If you want to use tags to analyze the cost data generated before tag activation, export the bill details file and analyze the data based on the Resource Tag field in the file.

Step 3: Viewing Costs by Cost Tag

  1. Log in to Cost Center.
  2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
  3. Set Grouped By to Cost Tags.

    • Cost data grouped by cost tag

    • Cost data filtered by cost tag