Checking Your Expenses and Usage
This topic describes how to analyze the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure costs associated with your account.
You can use the following cost-related tools in the Console, which can help you gain insight into your costs and attribution of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources:
See Working with Costs Analysis Tools, and Billing, Cost Management, and Payments Overview for more information.
Required IAM Policy
To enable users to monitor the costs associated with this account, you will have to grant them access by writing a policy . If you're new to policies, see Getting Started with Policies and Common Policies.
See Required IAM Policy for more information on the required policy statements. Also see Cost and Usage Reports Overview for more information on cost and usage reports.
Working with Costs Analysis Tools
Cost Analysis is a visualization tool that helps you track and optimize your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure spending, allows you to generate charts, and download accurate, reliable tabular reports of aggregated cost data on your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure consumption. Use the tool for spot checks of spending trends and for generating reports. For more information, see Cost Analysis Overview.
- Open the navigation menu and click Billing & Cost Management. Under Cost Management, click Cost Analysis.
- From Reports, select one of the predefined reports, or create a new one.
- In Start Date (UTC), select a start date.
- In End Date (UTC), select an ending date.Note
Historical data is currently being back-filled for tenancies and may not appear immediately. As the process completes, up to twelve months of past consumption data will become available. - Click Apply.
- Open the navigation menu and click Billing & Cost Management. Under Cost Management, click Cost Analysis.
- From Filters, select the Tag filter. The Tag box is displayed.
- From Tag Namepace and Tag Key, select tagging filter options, and specify the match criteria.
- Click Select.
- Click Apply.
- Open the navigation menu and click Billing & Cost Management. Under Cost Management, click Cost Analysis.
- From Filters, select the Compartment filter. The Compartment box is displayed.
- Under Filter Compartments, select a compartment
filtering option:
- By name
- By OCID
- By Path (for example, root/compartmentname/compartmentname)
Note
Filtering by compartment displays usage and costs attributed to all resources in the selected compartments, and their child compartments. - Click Apply.
- When you filter costs, a label appears under Filters with the name of the tag or compartment filter. To clear the filter, click the preceding X icon, or click Clear All Filters.
For more information on Cost Analysis field usage, see Cost Analysis Query Fields.