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Introduction

Cost Overview dashboards provide visibility and insights into various metrics generated at cluster/project level. They provide a bird’s eye view of costs and efficiencies for Projects, Clusters and Namespaces. Access is controlled by assigned role. Longer-term retention of historical cost information makes it possible to anticipate future expenses.

Getting to the Dashboards

The dashboard card shows resource cost summary and a trend graph, which is helpful to view service provider vs utilization costs

  • Login to the controller and click on dashboards
  • Select Cost Management

  • Use the appropriate tabs to view the cost metrics

    • All tab shows a central view of the cost metrics across all projects and clusters
    • Project tab shows the cost metrics at a project level
    • Cluster tab shows the cost metrics at a cluster level

  • Use the Date filter to view the metrics on different durations (24 hours, 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days). By default, 24 hours data are presented

  • Use the Clear icon to refresh and get back to the default (24 hours) page

Service Mesh Dashboard

Mouse hover on the tooltip (i) of each cost widget to know more about the metrics

For example, hovering over the Summary tooltip under All tab shows the info as Cost of all resources allocated and unallocated

Service Mesh Dashboard

Cost Trend Legend

Cost Trend has a graphical representation to show the trend of cost for different providers. A legend is presented at the bottom of the graph with different colors to identify the total, utilized, idle, and unallocated costs. Select the provider (AWS, AZURE, and ONPREM) available in the right corner to view the cost metrics of a specific provider type. Mouse hover on the graph to know the detailed cost metrics for each hour

Service Mesh Legend

Top Resources

  • Top Clusters: Shows the top 5 clusters that consume the highest cost
  • Top Namespaces: Shows the top 5 Namespaces that consume the highest cost
  • Top Applications: Shows the top 5 Namespaces that consume the highest cost

Click the ellipsis icon against each widget to view all the available clusters, namespaces, and applications along with the cost

Service Mesh Legend

Project Level Cost Metrics

Select the Project tab to view the cost of metrics at project level. Select the required project from the drop-down and here you can view the cost details of all the clusters available within the selected project

Service Mesh Legend

The Unallocated Cost widget will be empty if the selected project is not the parent project for any clusters.

Cluster Level Cost Metrics

Select the Clusters tab to view the cost of metrics at cluster level. Select the required project from the drop-down and here you can view the cost details of all the clusters available within the selected project

Service Mesh Legend

The Unallocated Cost widget will be empty when you select a project and a shared cluster.