Creating and monitoring cloud budgets
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- UpdatedFeb 2, 2023
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Creating and monitoring cloud budgets
To manage your cloud spend, you can define and monitor custom Budget plans. The system compares the plans with billing data to calculate and report on how well budgets are being met. Understanding budget compliance by groups and service accounts can significantly improve oversight and reduce cloud spend.
How budget analysis works
Each successful Billing download triggers budget refresh automatically. Budget refresh is also triggered manually when a new Budget policy is created or when Run Budget Calculation is clicked.
- Apply each Budget plan to billing data. (Plans are described in Define or update a Budget plan.)
- Update all Budget Forecast reports.
- Repeat the process whenever billing data is updated or a user requests budget reanalysis.
Budget reports
- Budget Forecast Job Execution information
- On any budget report page, select Executions to view status on the jobs that perform Budget Forecast analysis whenever billing data is updated or a user requests reanalysis.
- Budget Forecast information
- The system displays the results of Budget Forecast analysis on a card or in a list on the Budgets page. The information includes to-date and forecast spend against plan and projected variance from plan for all defined Budget plans.
- Budget Analytics Overview report
- The Budget Overview report is a dashboard that provides consolidated budget spend and variance information for all defined Budget plans over your entire cloud infrastructure.
- Budget Analytics Trend report
- The Budget Trend report compares budgeted amount to actual spend for each billing period.
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- Viewing Budget Forecast information
The system displays the results of Budget Forecast analysis on a card or in a list on the Budgets page. The information includes to-date and forecast spend against plan and projected variance from plan for all defined Budget plans.
- Viewing the Budget Analytics Overview report
The Budget Overview report is a dashboard that provides consolidated budget spend and variance information for all defined Budget plans over your entire cloud infrastructure.
- Viewing the Budget Analytics Trend report
The Budget Trend report compares budgeted amount to actual spend for each billing period.
- Define or update a Budget plan
Define a Budget plan to specify a budgeted amount, cost type, reset period, and other aspects of the budget. In addition, specify who can view budget data and who is notified of variances from the budgeted amount.