Accessing the Cloud Dashboard

From the Flexera One Dashboards menu, select Cloud to open the Flexera Default dashboard. This dashboard provides an overview of your monthly cloud costs across clouds, accounts and services for the selected time period in a bar chart at the top of the page. Data from all the billing centers that you have access to in the selected organization are pulled into one view. The remaining charts on the page show data from the selected month-bar on the top chart. (The selected bar is denoted with a gray highlight behind that month’s bar.)

Hover over any month on the chart to see the breakdown of costs by the selected dimension. Click on any month to change the lower charts on the page to show data for that month. The upper left of the chart shows the total cost of the selected month.

The following sections describe the Flexera Default dashboard in further detail.

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Forecasted Amortized Costs for the Current Month

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Flexera Default Dashboard Access

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Flexera Default Dashboard Options for Analyzing Cloud Cost Information

Forecasted Amortized Costs for the Current Month

A forecast of the current month spend is provided (dashed lines will appear in the bar chart) when amortized is selected in the cost type selector. The forecast for amortized costs is calculated by using the average daily spend and projecting that amount forward for the remaining days in the month. The average spend is calculated using the last 7 days for which we have full data from the cloud providers.

Flexera Default Dashboard Access

The following table describes Flexera One roles used to access the Flexera Default dashboard. For details about all Flexera One roles, refer to the Flexera One Roles.

Required Roles for Flexera Default Dashboard

Role	Description
Manage organization	Full access to share custom cloud dashboards.
Manage cloud dashboard	Full access to manage public and default custom Cloud Cost Optimization Dashboards.
View cloud costs	Full access to user-specific dashboards. Your access to the Flexera Default dashboard can be at either the organization level or the billing center level, as described below. • Organizational access—You can view cloud costs across the organization. • Billing Center access—You can view cloud costs for at least one billing center. If you have the role on one or more billing centers, the Flexera Default dashboard combines the cloud costs from all billing centers into one page.

Flexera Default Dashboard Options for Analyzing Cloud Cost Information

Cloud Cost Optimization provides the following dashboard options for analyzing cloud cost information. Click the links below for further information.

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The “Default” Dashboards

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Creating a Custom Cloud Dashboard

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Sharing Default or Custom Cloud Dashboards