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Allocation Cost Dashboard

The allocation cost dashboard charts what each allocation has spent over time, broken down by type, subtype, user, or SKU. It's the cost dashboard for organizations on the flexible allocation system, and combines invoiced cloud costs, real-time estimates, and rated usage in one view.

Preview

The dashboard is shown on the Reports page, which is marked Preview. The Explorer tab described here is complete. Saved reports are still in development and aren't covered on this page.

Organizations on the legacy group allocation system use the Cost dashboard instead.

In the sidebar, under Monitor, click Reports. The page opens on the Explorer tab.

Screenshot of the allocation cost dashboard, showing monthly usage cost for an allocation stacked by type, a breakdown table by category, and the filters panel.

Choosing what to show

The filters panel on the right controls the chart and table. Click Hide filters to give the chart more room, and Refresh to reload the data.

Allocation

The allocation to report on. The list shows the allocations you can access: those shared with you, or every allocation in the organization if you're an organization admin.

Group by

How costs are split in the chart and table:

  • Type — broad categories such as Compute, Storage, Network, and AI.
  • Subtype — finer categories within each type.
  • User — who incurred the cost.
  • SKU — the individual billable item.

Time range

Day, Week, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 365 days, Month to date, Year to date, or Custom (pick a start and end date). The time range is independent of the allocation start date, so you can look at spend from before the current allocation period.

Include realtime estimates

On by default. Adds estimated cost for running resources that your cloud provider hasn't invoiced yet, so the chart is close to up to date. Turn it off to see only invoiced costs and rated usage. This option only appears for allocations in U.S. dollars; custom-unit allocations show rated usage only.

Filters

Narrow the data to one Type, Subtype, User, or SKU. Metadata searches the metadata attached to rated usage events (for example, a job or project ID sent by an integration). Cloud costs carry no metadata, so they're excluded while a metadata search is active.

Reading the dashboard

  • Usage cost — a stacked bar chart of spend per month, colored by the Group by category. Turn on Show cumulative to see running totals instead of per-month amounts.
  • Breakdown table — each category's total Usage cost for the selected range, plus the overall Total. Hover a row to highlight that category in the chart.

Your filter choices are kept in the page URL, so you can bookmark a view or share the link with someone who has access to the same allocation. The dashboard also remembers your last filters the next time you open it.

Cost categories

When you group by Type or Subtype, cloud costs are sorted into the categories below. Each cloud provider SKU is mapped to one type and subtype, so the same kind of cost lands in the same category on AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle.

TypeSubtypesExamples
ComputeInstance, IP Address, Image, OS, OtherVirtual machines and cluster nodes, OS and software licenses, custom images. Kubernetes namespace usage also appears here.
StorageDisk, Bucket, NFS, Lustre, Snapshot, NetApp, BigQuery, OtherBlock disks, object storage buckets, file systems, snapshots
NetworkEgress, Ingress, IP Address, NAT Gateway, Load Balancer, DNS, Private Link, Security, OtherData transfer out, public IP addresses, NAT gateways
AITokens, StorageModel usage through the AI gateway and cloud AI services
InfrastructureDatabase, Kubernetes, BigQuery, OtherManaged databases, managed Kubernetes control planes, other managed cloud services
KeysKMS, Key VaultKey management and secret storage
LogsOtherLogging and event streaming services

Custom-unit allocations use the type and subtype defined on each of their SKUs instead.

Unknown

Unknown means the charge uses a cloud provider SKU that hasn't been categorized yet, which usually happens when a provider introduces a new product or pricing line. The cost is still counted in full toward the allocation; only its category is missing. New SKUs are categorized in platform updates. Charges already imported keep Unknown until their billing period is imported again, which happens automatically while the cloud provider is still updating that month's billing export.

What's included

For the selected allocation, the dashboard adds up:

  • Invoiced cloud costs from your cloud providers' billing exports, attributed to the allocation through resource groups, reservation mappings, the cloud account's default allocation, or legacy (deprecated) project tags. See Cost Attribution. Costs from a shared cloud account that bill this allocation are included too.
  • Real-time estimates for running resources that haven't been invoiced yet, when Include realtime estimates is on. Once the invoice arrives, it replaces the estimate, so nothing is counted twice.
  • Rated usage recorded against the allocation, such as AI requests, Kubernetes namespace usage, and usage events from integrations like slurm-tracker.

Cloud costs with no username, such as shared account charges, appear under your organization's default billing username when grouping by User.

Invoice timing

Cloud providers usually publish usage a few hours to a day after it happens, and the platform imports it about every two hours. Recent days may show mostly estimated cost until the invoices arrive.

Access

You can view an allocation's costs if the allocation is shared with you at any level (Read, Use, or Admin), or if you're an organization admin. Platform billing admins can view any organization's allocation costs from Admin > Cost Reports.