Using LevelFour
Costs and Usage
One page per connected provider, with spend so far this month, spend over time, and a breakdown you can group by service, account, tag or virtual tag.
Costs and Usage in the dashboard sidebar lists every provider you have connected. Each one opens its own page, from the top down: a row of totals, a chart of spend over time, a cost breakdown table, and, where LevelFour keeps an inventory, the resources behind the cost.
A provider shows here once it is connected. Connect Providers covers each one.
The totals
The strip at the top shows the provider's figures at a glance:
| Figure | What it is |
|---|---|
| Total Spend | Month to date for this provider |
| Forecast · EoM | Where the month is heading |
| Savings Recommendation | The open savings on this provider |
| Savings Audit | The savings captured on this provider so far |
Google Cloud shows Gross cost, Credits and Net cost instead, all month to date, so you can see how much your credits cover.
Spend over time
Spend over time charts daily cost. Switch between Daily and Monthly bars, pick a period with the date control, and pick what the bars are split by. On AWS and Google Cloud you can also filter the chart to one tag value.
Cost breakdown
Cost Breakdown is a table of the same spend, with the period total in its heading. Group it by:
| Group | Groups by |
|---|---|
| Service | The provider's service |
| Account | The account the cost landed in |
| Region | Where the resource runs |
| Tag | A provider tag you pick |
| Virtual Tag | A virtual tag you pick |
| Resource | The individual resource |
| Usage Type | The provider's usage type |
| Cost Category | Your AWS cost categories |
| Purchase Type | How the capacity was bought |
| Instance Type | The instance size |
Grouped by a virtual tag, cost that no rule claims appears as its own Unallocated row, so the rows still add up to the bill.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud names these the way its console does: Project, Label, SKU, Pricing Model and Machine Type. Cost categories do not exist on Google Cloud. The chart can also split by Folder, Credit Type and Charge Type.
The Google Cloud page adds Google Cloud insights: credits, commitments, labels, usage and inventory. A toggle in its header switches its figures between After credits, the default, and Before credits. Boards explains the two figures.
Resources
For providers where LevelFour keeps an inventory, such as DigitalOcean, a Resources table lists what runs in the account: name, type, region, size, project, tags and status. Search by name or ID, filter by type, region, project or tag, and switch between Active and Removed resources.
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| List price / mo | An estimate from the list price of that size, before discounts and credits |
| Invoiced MTD | Invoice line items for the resource this month, before tax and credits |
| Invoiced last month | The same for last month |
Charges that belong to no single resource, such as bandwidth, are totalled under the table.
Next
- Boards put the same numbers side by side across providers
- Virtual tags create the keys the Virtual Tag grouping reads
- Costs is the same data through the API
Boards
The home screen of the dashboard, where each board is a grid of cost, allocation, savings and anomaly cards you can rearrange and filter.
Savings Recommendations
Review the savings LevelFour finds on your connected accounts, decide on each one, and choose which resources it covers before it runs.