Resource Explorer enables you to group and view your costs by account, region, service, or tag. With Resource Explorer, you can easily gain an in-depth analysis of how each Azure resource is consuming your cloud costs. The Azure bills are parsed for the specified custom timeline, which is used to display the cloud spending.
You can leverage the following benefits from Resource Explorer:
- Obtain paginated cost views of all the resources in your Azure bill. Use the search bar to query individual resource costs for a day, month, quarter, or year.
- View a multi-series line chart to see the daily spending pattern if the period is less than a month.
- Obtain a responsive table to view the cost split-up based on the account, region, service, or resource group at each resource level.
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How does Resource Explorer work?
With Resource Explorer, you can view how and where your cloud costs are spent, facilitating slice-and-dice reporting. Granular reporting lets you gain deep insights into your Azure bills.
Benefits of Resource Explorer
Resource Explorer offers the following features:
- Timeline: You can view the cloud spending for today, the previous day, the last seven days, the last 30 days, or a custom date range.
- Tags > AND operation: The top Tag field can be used to specify tags based on default attributes, such as the frequency, chargeType, consumedService, meterCategory, meterName, meterSubCategory, pricingModel, resourceLocation, resourceType, product, and resourceGroup. The tags can be used in combination to perform an AND operation and retrieve the costs for an account, region, service, or resource group. Furthermore, you can add or edit a custom label by clicking + Tag Profile in the top-right corner.
- Tags > OR operation: The bottom row of tags lets you select various default tags to be used in combination to perform an OR operation. Select the necessary tags from the drop-down menu and click Apply.
- Scheduled reports: Not only can you group the costs on a single screen based on account, region, service, or resource group but you can also get them delivered to your inbox on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
- Cost views: The cost views can be obtained account-wise, service-wise, region-wise, or resource-group-wise based on how you navigate to the Resource Explorer view.
How to navigate to Resource Explorer?
You can access the Resource Explorer view from four pages:
- Accounts or Business Units
- Accounts Splitup ($)
- Cost by Service ($)
- Cost by Region ($)
Accounts or Business Units
The Resource Explorer view for Accounts and BusinessUnits provides you with an aggregated view of your Azure resources in various categories, like Accounts, Region, Service, ResourceGroup, or Tag for each Business Unit.
Click the Resource Explorer icon (highlighted on the image below) from the Accounts page to explore more details.
Click the Resource Explorer icon (highlighted on the image below) on the BusinessUnits page to explore more details.
Accounts Splitup ($)
The Accounts Splitup($) view shows the cloud costs based on the various billing accounts added to your CloudSpend account. From the Spend Analysis tab, navigate to the Accounts Splitup ($) section and click View Details to access Resource Explorer.
Cost by Service ($)
The Cost by Service ($) view displays the top three services that have accrued the highest Azure charges. Hover over each service displayed on the pie chart to view the service-wise split-up of costs. From the Spend Analysis tab, navigate to the Cost by Service ($) section and click View Details. This provides you with a holistic view of all the services in your Azure infrastructure and the corresponding bills for each month.
Cost by Region ($)
From the Spend Analysis tab, navigate to the Cost by Region ($) section and click View Details. This provides you with a detailed region-wise view of the cloud bills for your Azure infrastructure.