OCI Resource Inventory

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OCI Resource Inventory feature for Cloudability enables you to produce an authoritative list of OCI cloud resources that existed and were billed during a specific reporting period. You have the flexibility to build this list from resources spanning multiple accounts and choose from different measures (dimensions and metrics) to surface the details relevant to them. At present, this information is only available for Virtual Machine resource - unifies billing, utilization, and descriptive meta data to give you a more comprehensive inventory view.

Getting started

OCI Resource Inventory reporting feature must be enabled for your Cloudability Org. You must reach out to your TAM/CSM/account point of contact from IBM Cloudability to get this done. Once enabled, allow 2-3 business days for the data to start appearing in your inventory reports.

Inventory Reporting Measures

  • Measures are categorized as dimensions, metrics and tags (tags include Cloudability's tag dimensions, account groups and business mappings). You can include up to 20 columns to an individual report.
  • For OCI Virtual Machine service, a specific set of measures are supported.
  • You can filter your respective inventory reports using any of the measures available within this feature.

Clickable KPIs for Quick Filtering

For every service, KPIs will be displayed at the top of the report to provide you with key summary information such as Total Resources and Untagged Instances . You can click and filter the Inventory report based on these KPIs to drill down to the specific report data you are looking for.

Inventory Reporting Date Windows

You can choose the period in the date picker for which you want to view the inventory data for each service. Maximum allowed range for selection is 31 days. Upon enabling this feature, resource inventory data will be back filled to the beginning of the current month. Over time, inventory data will be available on a three-month rolling window. At any point in time, you will be able to access resource inventory data for the current month along with the previous two months.

Statistical Filtering using the Display Filter

From the inventory data generated for a specific service and time period, you can now choose to display a subset of that data, whether it is the top x number or the x percentage of resources based on your preferred cost or utilization metric.

For example: Resource Inventory displays 1000 records for Compute service for a period of seven days. You can further filter this display by choosing to view only top 25% of these resources, based on Cost (Total). Applying this filter would then return the top 250 resources based on Cost (Total) sorted from highest to the lowest.

Exporting Reports

Clicking  Export  on top right of the report table will export all selected inventory columns with any filter(s) applied. However, to export the full inventory data for the selected month and service with all supported columns, click the Export  button on the top right of the filters drop down in the toolbar of the tab.

Saving Resource Inventory Reports

You can save a report with its date, service and filter selections and share this report with other users in the org by granting them “View Only” or “Edit” permissions. On the top right of the toolbar in Resource Inventory UI, you can see an ellipse with three dots icon clicking on which would open the Report Actions menu with these options.

  • Save As Report: Using this option, you can save a copy of your report. This option is handy if someone has shared a report with you with a "View Only" access and you want to make changes to this report by making your own copy of it. Another use case for Save As Report is for Default Report. The Default Report cannot be modified and you would need to select "Save As Report" option to save any changes that you made to the Default Report.
  • Save Report: This option is used to save any changes made to the report you created or shared with you with an "Edit" permission
  • Share Report: Using this option, you can share your reports with other users in your organization by giving them "View Only" or "Edit" permissions.
  • Delete Report: You can delete your report by clicking on Delete Report.
  • Saved Report Date Range Handling: Saved reports with unsupported (over 3-month) non-rolling date ranges will load with the date range reset to the default 7 days. A warning message will also be shown to the user that the date range has been reset. This behavior ensures saved reports remain accessible even when their stored date ranges fall outside the supported limit.
Note:
  • Maximum number of reports that will be displayed in the Saved Reports drop down is 100.
  • When a report is shared with a user, no email notifications will be sent.
  • Resource Inventory supports a maximum of 3 months' data i.e. month-to-date + last 2 months. So the data would eventually expire in reports when it surpasses this retention period.

Using Resource Inventory

  1. To access OCI Resource Inventory, navigate to Insights> Resource Inventory and click the OCI tab.

  1. Select the service from Services dropdown (at present only Virtual Machine) for which you want to view your resource inventory.

  2. Select the date range for which you want to view resource inventory data. You can choose to view up to 31 days of data at the maximum. The data displayed will sorted by Cost (Total) in descending order by default.

  3. Click on any of the KPIs with the blue bar on the left to filter your reports based on that specific KPI.

  4. Click the table settings button at the top right of resource inventory table to configure the measures and tags that you want displayed as columns in the table.

The selected measures and tags are displayed as columns in the table.

  1. Click Filters to apply any filters to your inventory report.

  2. Use the Display drop down above the Resource Inventory Details table to specify the top or bottom percentage of rows to display in the table and to sort the table descending by the preferred cost or utilization metric.

  3. Click the Export button at the top right of the Resource Inventory Details table to export all the columns showing in the table filtered by your filter settings. To export all the inventory data for the selected month and service with all the supported columns, click Export button, at the right of the Filters drop down in the toolbar of the tab.

Resource Measures showing 'Not Available'

For some resources, you may find that some measures, such as Launch Date , State, and Size among others, show as Not Available in the Resource Inventory report. This means that Cloudability was not able to fetch data for those specific measures due to one of the following reasons:

  • You may not have done advanced credentialing for the account to which the particular resource(s) belong.
  • The lifespan of the resource(s) may have been too short to capture the data for those measures.
  • The utilization metrics for these resources may show as '0' (zero) in the report.
OCI Compute

Total Resources

Total number of VM (including snapshots/backups) for the selected period.
Total Instances Total number of VM instances (excluding snapshots/backups) for the selected period.
Inactive VM Instances Number of VM instances that are in one of these states - “terminating”, “stopping”, “stopped” or “terminated”
Cost (Total) Total cost calculated by the unblended rate
Total Snapshots Total number of VM snapshots (backups) for the selected period.
Untagged VM Instances Number of instances that do not have a tags.