Getting a Cost Anomaly's Details
Get the details of a cost anomaly event in Billing and Cost Management.
- On the Cost anomaly list page, select the cost anomaly that you want to work with, or select View details from the Actions menu. If you need help finding the list page or the cost monitor, see Listing Cost Anomalies.
The details page opens and displays the following information about the cost anomaly.
Column Name Description Name Identifier generated by OCI with the following syntax: Cost Monitor Name: YYYY-MM-DD.
Default Cost Monitors appear as Service: YYYY-MM-DD.
Anomaly Date Date the cost anomaly was detected. Region The cost monitor's region where the resources being monitored. Tenancy The cost monitor's tenancy names being monitored.
Note: Each child tenancy has its own default cost monitor.
Cost Monitor Name of the cost monitor. Cost Monitor Status Defines whether the cost monitor is active or inactive. Cost monitors are inactive if there's less than 60 days of historical data or if the user explicitly deactivates the cost monitor.
Resource Criteria Defines the cost monitor's filter used to identify resources to monitor. Resources Involved Count of resources involved in the potential root cause analysis on the anomaly date and the previous day. Expected Cost The forecasted daily cost for the cost monitor. Actual Cost The actual daily cost for the cost monitor. Cost Impact The difference between the forecast and the actual daily cost. Cost Variance The difference between the forecast and the actual daily cost as a percentage. Alerted Subscriptions The cost anomaly alert subscription that received an email alert. (This is an optional configuration. See Creating an Alert Subscription. Understanding Potential Anomaly Cause
The Resources and Cost section of anomaly details analyzes resource changes that occurred between the anomaly date and the previous day and calculates the potential cost impact of each change.
Note
The Resources and Cost section displays the total cost impact ($) and cost variance (%) as directional indicators. These values might not match the cost anomaly values shown in the anomaly summary or the anomalies list.The cost impact for each cost anomaly is calculated as the difference between the aggregate daily cost forecast and the actual cost.
Resource and cost impacts are calculated based on cost changes for specific resources that were active or inactive on the anomaly date and the previous day.
Root Cause Type Description (Resource Count Change and Cost Impact ($)) Cost Variance Resources Added Resource Count Change: The number of resources that match the cost monitor's filter criteria on the anomaly date but weren't active on the previous day.
Cost Impact: The sum of daily costs for resources added on the anomaly date.
The cost impact, shown as a percentage, calculated by dividing the cost impact of added resources by the total daily cost difference between the anomaly date and the previous date. Resources Removed Resource Count Change: The number of resources matching that matched the cost monitor's filter criteria on the previous day but weren't active on the anomaly date. Cost Impact: The sum of daily costs for resources that were removed on the anomaly date.
The cost impact, shown as a percentage, calculated by dividing the cost impact of removed resources by the total daily cost difference between the anomaly date and the previous date. Resources Unchanged Resource Count Change: The number of resources that matched the cost monitor's filter criteria and were active on both the anomaly date and the previous day. Note: This represents increased usage for the resource.
Cost Impact: The sum of daily costs for resources that were removed on the anomaly date.
The cost impact, shown as a percentage, calculated by dividing the cost impact of unchanged resources by the total daily cost difference between the anomaly date and the previous date. Total Change Resource Count Change: The number of resources that were active on either the anomaly date or the previous day. Cost Impact: The sum of daily costs for resources that were removed on the anomaly date.
Total cost variance. - Use the oci budgets cost-ad cost-anomaly-event get command and required parameters to get the details of a cost anomaly event by an identifier:
oci budgets cost-ad cost-anomaly-event get [OPTIONS]For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.
Run the GetCostAnomalyEvent operation to get the details of a cost anomaly event.