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.
Hover over any month on the chart to see the breakdown of costs by the selected dimension. Click any month to change the lower charts on the page to show data for that month. The upper-left corner of the chart shows the total cost of the selected month.
The following sections describe the Flexera Default dashboard in further detail:
| • | Cloud Spend Visibility |
| • | Cloud Resource Visibility |
| • | Forecasted Amortized Costs for the Current Month |
| • | Flexera Default Dashboard Access |
| • | Flexera Default Dashboard Options for Analyzing Cloud Cost Information |
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboard shows all the cloud spend ingested from the cloud provider for the last three years.
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboard shows the cloud spend to the resource ID level. This data is limited to 100k rows and to the following days:
| • | 30 days – Daily Granularity—Individual resource ID spend is seen for a day for up to 30 days. After 30 days, the resource ID is seen at monthly granularity. |
| • | 90 days – Monthly Granularity—Individual resource ID spend is seen for a month up to 90 days. After 90 days, the resource ID is not seen. |
Forecasted Amortized Costs for the Current Month
A forecast of the current month spend is provided (dashed lines 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 the Flexera One roles used to access the Flexera Default dashboard. For complete descriptions of each role available in Flexera One, see Flexera One Roles.
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Manage organization |
Full access to share custom cloud dashboards. |
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Manage cloud dashboard |
Full access to manage public and default custom Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards. |
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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. The access levels are as follows:
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Flexera Default Dashboard Options for Analyzing Cloud Cost Information
Cloud Cost Optimization provides the following dashboard options for analyzing cloud cost information. Click the following links for further information:
| • | The “Default” Dashboards |
| • | Creating a Custom Cloud Dashboard |
| • | Sharing Default or Custom Cloud Dashboards |
| • | Viewing cost anomalies—For information, see Cost Anomaly Detection. |