Budgets

Budgets provide insight into spending across entire accounts, allowing users to create and plan a budget scoped to their account, clouds, tenants, users, or groups.

Creating A Budget

  1. Navigate to Operations > Budget

  2. Create a new budget and enter in the following:

    1. Name
    2. Description
    3. Scope: Here you can choose what this budget is tied to
    4. Period
    5. Year: Set future budgets
    6. Interval: Choose Month, Quarter, Year then fill in the budget for that interval

  3. SAVE CHANGES

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Cloud Budgets

If you scope a budget to a cloud visit the cloud summary page in Infrastructure > Clouds > Select Cloud > Summary for a detailed breakdown of the costing

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View Budget Summary

To view the budget summary, click into the budget to see the actual vs budgeted spend for the interval selected.

To edit the budget just select EDIT

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Budget Analytics

In Operations > Analytics > Budget Analysis select scope (Account, Tenant, Cloud, Group, User) to view the budget analysis.

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