Welcome to this Azure cost management video, which provides
a quick overview of saving and sharing views in Azure Cost
Management. Azure Cost Management is a native Azure Service
designed to allow customers and partners to gain complete
visibility in control of their cloud costs across Azure in
Amazon Web Services. A key component of the accountability
invisibility pillars of the continuous cost optimization
process is the ability to save and share views in Azure cost
management. Views within Azure Cost Management provide
organizations with in-depth visibility into their Azure and
Amazon Web service costs. Often views are created for each cost
center Department without save use. You need to reconfigure
cost analysis. Each time you need to review costs, which can
be time consuming and error prone. To solve these issues, you
can create custom views
and save them, so that you can reuse cost analysis
configurations. To explore the different views and reporting
capabilities of Azure Cost Management log into the Azure
portal, click into cost management and billing, cost
management and click cost analysis.
Here you can see, there is a pregenerated view that shows the
cost for the currently selected scope. There are 5 built in
standard views that come preconfigured and can be
selected by clicking into the view menu. In this case, we are
looking at accumulated costs. The available views are:
accumulated costs, costs by resource, daily costs, costs by
service, and invoice details. If the built-in views don't meet
your needs you can easily configure your own custom view.
Simply edit the view is needed by altering the date.
Group by or granularity filters or any other controls available
here. You can also change the presentation of the data by
changing the presentation from the current view to stacked or
group Column Chart, Line chart, or table views. Your filter can also
be added by selecting the filter next to the date and then
selecting different options from the drop down list.
Once you have a view that you like and meets your reporting
needs. It's easy to save share and export It. Now that you have
a view that meets your organizations needs, let's save
it. Click on the save or save as buttons in the above toolbar.
Provide a name and click save.
Your save view will be listed in the view menu along with any
other private or shared views. Shared views are available for
everyone who has read access to that specific scope. In private
views are visible only to you. In addition to being able to
save views, you can also share views. There are two ways to
share views. The quickest way to share views by clicking on the
share button in the above toolbar, which provides a URL to
the specific view. However, it is important to note that the
URL only works for those who have an appropriate permission.
If you want to share a view with people without access to Azure
cost management. It can be done by exporting the view. The saved
view can be exported by clicking on the export button in the
above toolbar. You will be provided with the option to
export the view as a PNG image Excel or CSV file. For exporting
a view that is suitable for use in Excel Pivot tables use
tabular views. The best approach is to select from one of the
following preconfigured views in the view selector. Either Cost by
Resource or invoice details.
In conclusion, Azure Cost Management cost analysis is
a powerful tool.
Within Azure Cost Management, the ability to save, share
an export views. This can be a critical tool for
organizations in providing visibility and accountability
into your cloud costs. Thanks for watching and please, see
her other videos in the Azure Cost Management channel on
YouTube for other related videos.