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Introducing Custom Reports functionality

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You can now create your custom Cloud Overview and Cloud Costs reports within the app. This feature enables you to create reports for specific tags and timeframe(current month to date, last day, last week and last month).

If you want to create Cloud Overview report for specific tag for example called production go the overview section, click on filters pick ‘production’ tag and click on update, overview page would get updated with data limited just to that tag:

When you click on “Save as Report” button you’d get a popup:

based on your filters we are pre populating report settings with selected tag and cloud connection, just pick reported timeframe(current month to date, last day, last week, last month) and frequency e.g. daily, click create and you are done – you’d receive every day email with attached pdf report.

You can see all your reports in the reports section – where you are able to turn them off/on and delete.

Here’s couple more screenshots for Cloud Costs reports:

and this is how the pdf looks like:

Here’s a summary of what you get: 

- Overview custom report (Cost & Usage for selected tags and timeframe)
- Detailed Cost report (graph and detailed break down – Compute, Storage, Network for selected tags and timeframe)

Please let us know if you have any feature requests or feedback!

 

 

AWS Cloud Cost and Usage Reporting

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Last week was quite busy for us, as we were preparing to launch new feature – interactive AWS cost and usage reports. Well, it’s not totally new, as our users were getting Amazon’s cloud costs and usage reports weekly on their mailboxes, but these new in-app reports take it to whole new level! Lets take a look.

AWS Cost and Usage Weekly Reports

Every user that has connected their Amazon Web Services with CloudVertical account is receiving weekly Cost and Usage reports on their mailbox at the beginning of every week. Reports cover basic figures, trends, numbers and graphs that give you high level overview of your cloud performance. This is our way of keeping our users always on top of their cloud spend and usage, without bothering them to login to our app and explore all the data on their own.

We’ve received a lot of great feedback on those reports. Still, some users wanted to dig a bit deeper in their report data and be able to compare cost and usage from different weeks. Responding to this demand, we expanded “Reports” section of our app to not only let users turn reports on and off, but to give them access to reports archive and ability to interact with data used to generate report.

Interactive Reports

Under “Reports” tab every user that has connected their Amazon cloud account with CloudVertical can see their reports list. Right now CloudVertical offers two types of reports: AWS Cost Report and AWS Usage report. On that list you can turn reports on and off (if for whatever the reason, you don’t want to get weekly report on your mailbox). But now you can also expand the list to view reports archive. Of course – if you have just signed up and we’ve just started processing your data, reports won’t be available to you just yet, as we won’t have enough data to create them.

From here you’ll be able to view your reports in details. Just click “View” to move into interactive report view. First thing you’ll notice is beautiful interactive graph representing how amount of running instances, average cost per instance and CPU utilization were changing in time. You can zoom and scroll graph to see more detailed data for specific period.

Below you’ll see data that you got in your AWS usage report sections: key figures on EC2 Instances, EBS volumes and Network usage and cost. But there is one more thing: by clicking “Show Details” button you can expand those sections to see much more detailed information that was used to calculate summary values (and more!).

As mentioned above, that’s just a first iteration of CloudVertical’s Interactive Reports feature. There’s still much to do in that area and our dev team is busy working on improvements. If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you – here in comments, on Twitter or via email.