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 and Payment Tools 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.
- Open the navigation menu. Under Governance and Administration, go to Account Management and click Cost Analysis.
- In Start Date, select a date.
- In End Date, select a date (within six months of the start date).
- Click Apply Filters.
- Open the navigation menu. Under Governance and Administration, go to Account Management and click Cost Analysis.
- From Tag Key, select a tag.
- Click Apply Filters.
- Open the navigation menu. Under Governance and Administration, go to Account Management and click Cost Analysis.
- From Compartment, select a compartment.
- Click Apply Filters.
- When you filter costs, a label appears with the name of the tag or compartment filter. To clear that filter, click the x.
For more information on Cost Analysis, see Cost Analysis Overview.