Cloudability Share and subscribe to reports and alerts

Edit online

You can share and automate the distribution of your cloud data by the following methods:

You can share cost or usage reports using the SHARED button from the upper-right corner of the report.

From this panel, you can choose to share the report with your entire organization or with an individual. If you want to share the report with an individual, you can either share it via URL or select a user on your account from a dropdown. You can select if their access should have view-only or editing capabilities, and click Add for the report to automatically be added to their report list.

This panel also displays who this report is currently shared with.

You can use the Subscribe button located next to the Share button to schedule an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly delivery of key reports on your team's spending or usage straight to your inbox.

On this pane, you can select how frequently you want to receive the report (hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly) and, if appropriate to your selection, which day of the week or month and at what hour.

You can also select whether you want to send the report even if there is no content. If you choose to uncheck this box, the report can serve as an alert for going over the budget. To learn more, see Subscribe to alerts below.

Setting up alerts will let you know whenever your data exceeds a defined threshold. This can be whenever you’re at risk of going over your allocated spend, whenever an instance is spun up without a tag, whenever your RI coverage rate falls below a floor, whenever CPU spikes outside of a known boundary (any threshold-based alert you need).

You can do so by building and scheduling a Cost or Utilization Report that will only be delivered, as an example, when the cost of a certain tag value (such as department=QA or environment=staging) exceeds a set amount of dollars.

To turn a report subscription into an alert, leave the Send even if there is no content check box unchecked.

Sample subscription to an alert

To build a report that’ll serve as a budget alert by tag , generate a new cost report. Select Account Name and X as your dimensions, where X is your desired tag key. Then, select Cost (Total) as your Metric . Finally, apply these filters where X is once more your desired tag key, Y is your desired tag value, and Z is your desired budget:

  • X = Y
  • Cost (Total) > $Z

For example:

  • Application (value) = frontend
  • Cost (Total) > $10,000.00

When subscribing to this report, leave the SEND EVEN IF THERE IS NO CONTENT check box unchecked. Hence, the report will only be sent when your spending exceeds your allotted budget.