Viewing Cost Analyses (New Edition)

API Reference

For details about how to use APIs to view cost analyses, see Querying Cost Data.

Preconfigured Reports

Cost Center comes preconfigured with some reports for typical cost analysis scenarios. You can also create custom reports to meet your own requirements. You can add the frequently used reports to your favorites for faster cost analysis.

Preconfigured reports cannot be deleted, but you can copy or add them to your favorites.

Cost Analysis View

You can set the cost type, time, and filters to view your cost data. If needed, you can also modify advanced settings to meet your specific requirements. In addition, you can export the desired cost and usage details for downloading and viewing.

Display Dimensions

By default, Cost Center provides you with the analysis of original costs (amount due).

Cost Type

• Original costs (amount due): the costs of cloud services purchased at the list price with available discounts applied. Before the billing date, this is an estimated amount.
• Net original costs (actual payments): the original costs after cash coupons are applied. Before the billing date, this is the estimated amount without any cash coupons applied.
• Amortized costs (amortized amount due): the effective costs after the original costs are amortized on a daily basis. For details about cost amortization rules, see Overview of Amortization Rules. Before the billing date, this is an estimated amount.
• Net amortized costs (amortized actual payments): amortized costs after cash coupons are applied. Before the billing date, this is the estimated amount without any cash coupons applied.

Specifying a Time Range

You can view your cost data at a specific granularity within a given time range.

Setting Filters

You can select any combination of filters to control which datasets are displayed.

If you select multiple filters, only results meeting all filtering criteria will be displayed. However, if you select multiple items for any given filter, results meeting any of the items selected will be displayed.

You can select up to 50 items for each filter. Under the Cost Category or Cost Tag filter, you can select up to 20 items for a level-1 option and up to 50 items for a level-2 option at a time.

As shown in the following figure, the option marked with the red box is considered a level-1 option, and the options marked with the blue box are considered level-2 options.

You can use the filters listed below for cost analysis.

Advanced Settings

Costs

When Cost Type is set to Original costs (amount due), you can select or deselect Include discount. If you select this option, discounts and truncated amounts will be included, and the cost is equal to the list price.

Show PoP cost/growth

• PoP cost = Total cost of the current period – Total cost of the previous period
• PoP growth is calculated as follows:

  

You can select Show PoP cost/growth to see the details.

Show list price

The list price is the price of a product without any discounts applied. If you select this option, the list price will be displayed only for analysis of original costs in stacked charts.

Cost and Usage Summary

Total cost: total cost in each day or month. If the time range you select includes a point in time in the future, the total cost includes the forecasted cost. If the time range does not include any point in time in the future, the total cost does not include the forecasted cost.

Average historical monthly cost: the average of historical cost per month

Average forecasted monthly cost: the average of forecasted cost per month

For details, see Table 2.

If the time range you selected covers both historical and future points of time, the cost data in the chart on the Cost Analysis page will be marked with an asterisk (*).

• No "*": historical costs
• *: the forecasted cost for the current day or month
• **: the forecasted cost for the future days or months

In Cost Center, you can also view cost data in stacked charts, bar charts, and line charts.

A maximum of 11 data records can be displayed in a chart. If you select 11 or more data records, the top 10 data records and Other are displayed by default. Other indicates the total number of the remaining data records.

• Stacked chart
  Figure 1 Stacked chart
  

• Bar chart
  Figure 2 Bar chart
  
• Line chart
  Figure 3 Line chart
  

• Donut chart
  Figure 4 Donut chart
  

Creating a Custom Report

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
3. Click Create Custom Report under All Reports.
4. Configure filters in the displayed page.
   

   For details about the filters, see Setting Filters.

5. Click Save on the upper right corner.
6. Specify a name for the report, and click Save.

   

Viewing Multi-Dimensional Cost Breakdowns

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
3. Select the preconfigured report Multi-Dimensional MTD Costs.
   

   

   • The Multi-Dimensional MTD Costs report is only available in the new edition of Cost Center. If you switch back to the old edition, you cannot access the report.
   • The Multi-Dimensional MTD Costs report does not include forecasted costs.

4. On the Cost Analysis page, select your query criteria. The cost data within the selected time range will be displayed in the specified dimension.
   1. Change the display dimensions.

      Click Edit and select up to three dimensions.

      The following display dimensions are available: Linked Account, Service Type, Enterprise Project, Cost Tags, Cost Categories, Region, and Billing Mode.

      

      

      • The default display dimensions for multiple accounts are Linked Account, Service Type, and Enterprise Project.
      • The default display dimensions for a single account are Service Type, Enterprise Project, and Region.
   2. View the cost Sankey diagram.
      1. By default, the MTD original costs are displayed. You can change the time range. This analysis report does not include forecasted costs.
      2. In the Sankey diagram, you can view your cost breakdowns and flows.
         • The branch width of each display dimension is equal to that of the total cost. Each branch represents the cost breakdown in a particular dimension.
         • The width of each branch represents costs incurred. The wider the branch, the higher the costs.
         • The flow of each branch reflects the cost breakdown in each display dimension.
         

         Up to 10 cost branches can be displayed for each dimension. The 10th branch and later branches are all displayed as Other.

   3. View cost data in the table.
      1. Click in the table to expand multi-dimensional cost data.
      2. Click Export to export multi-dimensional cost data.
   4. Switch cost analysis views.

      You can select another analysis view from the drop-down list. For example, you can switch among Favorite Reports, Recommended Reports, and Recent Reports.

5. Click Save As in the right upper corner of the page to save the analyses as reports so that you can easily view cost analyses with the same filters.

Viewing Cost Analyses

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
3. Select a recommended report or a custom report.
   

   Huawei Cloud provides recommended reports for quick cost analysis.

   You can save your cost analyses as custom reports if needed.

4. Set search criteria to view desired cost data.

   

   • If you set Cost Type to Original costs (amount due) or Net original costs (actual payments), the data displayed on the page is nearly real-time.
   • If you set Cost Type to Amortized costs (amortized amount due) or Net amortized costs (amortized actual payments), it may take 24 to 48 hours before the most recent data is displayed.
   • You can click Export to access the Export History page and download the Cost Analysis - Overview file.

5. Click Save in the right upper corner of the page to save the analyses as reports so that you can easily view cost analyses with the same filters. When you view a saved report later, Cost Center displays the same type of report, but updated with the most recent data.

Viewing Usage Analyses

1. Log in to Cost Center.
2. Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
3. Select a recommended report or a custom report.
   

   Huawei Cloud provides recommended reports for quick cost analysis.

   You can save your cost analyses as custom reports if needed.

4. Select Usage Type under Filters. The usage data over the selected time range will be displayed in the specified dimension.
   

   You can only set a single usage type to analyze usage.