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+title: Track and manage cloud costs using Grafana
+date: "2024-11-11"
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+authors: ["Jenny Wong"]
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+categories: [organization]
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+![Screenshot of a graph showing total daily costs per component.](featured.png "Grafana dashboard showing cloud costs broken down by compute, storage and other components for the [Openscapes](https://openscapes.org/) hub.")
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+We are pleased to unveil a new feature to track cloud costs within our Grafana dashboards! Community Champions now have the ability to monitor the cost and usage of their 2i2c-managed hubs that displays up to date aggregated costs as well as detailed breakdowns for more granular reports.
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+Note that this feature is currently available to AWS hosted hubs only and will be rolled out to other cloud providers in the future.
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+## Accessing the cloud cost dashboard
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+Community Champions can view the Cloud Cost dashboard from their Grafana instance (please see the [Service Guide](https://docs.2i2c.org/admin/howto/monitoring/) for how to gain access).
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+From the main menu of Grafana, navigate to *Dashboards > Cloud cost dashboards > Cloud cost attribution* to view the dashboard.
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+## Understanding the cloud cost dashboard
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+A typical 2i2c-managed deployment comprises of a staging hub and a production hub, although some other communities may have extra hubs such as a workshop hub. By default, costs are not broken down on a per hub basis unless the community has opted in to this feature.
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+The dashboard is made of several panels:
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+- Daily costs
+- Daily costs per hub (opt-in only)
+- Total daily costs per component
+- Daily costs per component per hub (opt-in only).
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+{{< video autoplay="true" loop="true" src="demo.mp4" >}}
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+For more detailed information on the data that each panel displays, please consult our Service Guide for reference.
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+## Sharing cost reports
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+The dashboard can be shared with other community members and stakeholders so they can understand usage and cost patterns. Community Champions export data to a CSV file, or they can generate a snapshot of the Grafana dashboard and share a public link.
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+For instructions on how to export data from the dashboard, please see our Service Guide for reference.
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+## Next steps
+
+We would love to know whether this feature is useful and how it can be improved. Please share your feedback with us!
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+We are working on rolling out this service to GCP hosted clusters as well. Stay tuned to know when this feature is available to your community.