SpendIQ

SpendIQ is the main Spend workspace. It shows where your cloud costs come from and how they change over time. Open it from Spend > SpendIQ in the left sidebar.

Use SpendIQ when you need to:

• Analyze the total spend of a selected date range.
• Group costs by up to three dimensions.
• Filter the spend by the available billing dimensions.
• Compare trends in the charts and read the daily costs in the table.
• Save a common view as a perspective and open it again.

Group By

Use Group By to break the spend down across the available Dimensions, Tags, and Allocated Tags.

• You can add up to three group-bys to one view.
• Combine group-bys to move from broad categories to a view of one owner, service, region, account, tag, or allocation.
• The charts and the tables change when you change the group-bys.

Filters

Use Filters to reduce the report to the spend that you want to analyze. You can filter on Dimensions, Tags, Allocated Tags, and Range conditions.

• There is no limit on the number of filters.
• Combine filters to focus on one business unit, workload, provider, service, account, region, tag value, or spend range.
• Filters work together with the group-bys and the granularity. The rest of the view changes to match the selected scope.

Granularity and date picker

Use the date picker and the granularity control to select the time period and the detail level of the time breakdown.

• Use a broad range to see the long-term movement of the spend.
• Use a fine granularity when you investigate a short-term spike or a trend change.
• Use Date Columns View when you compare data across months, and when you need one table column for each month.

Perspectives

If a view with specific group-bys, filters, and granularity is useful to you, save it as a Perspective. You can then open the same analysis again. You do not have to build the view a second time.

SpendIQ also has system-defined perspectives for common scenarios. You can start from a standard view and change it for your own need.

Charts and tables

The SpendIQ charts and tables follow the selected group-bys, filters, date range, and granularity. Use the charts to see the trends and the relations. Then use the table to read the breakdown behind them.

Anomalies

SpendIQ has an anomaly side panel. It gives you the context of unusual spend while you explore the costs.

For a deeper anomaly investigation, open Spend > Radar.